Mumbai - Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL), part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, and CBS Studios International, a division of CBS Corporation, announced their equally owned joint venture that brings together two of the world's pre-eminent media and entertainment [...]
English Premier League giants Manchester United have signed up Hong Kong's PCCW as their official broadcaster in the southern Chinese city. PCCW said the deal was the first of its type in the territory. Under the partnership, PCCW's Now TV, the city's largest pay-TV provider, [...]
Shanghai/Hong Kong - China Media Capital (CMC) and News Corporation announced they have signed an agreement under which CMC will acquire a controlling stake in News Corporation’s Xing Kong, Xing Kong International, Channel [V] Mainland China along with its Fortune Star Chinese movie [...]
Los Angeles/London – Endemol announced the acquisition of a majority share of Authentic Entertainment in the USA. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Authentic Entertainment is a major creator and producer of factual, reality and documentary formats and has a wide-ranging portfolio [...]
Seoul - Co-produced by Korea’s ToonZip Animation (ToonZip), Malaysia’s Centraline Animation Sdn Bhd (Centraline) and Italy’s Connectoon, and written by celebrated Hollywood screenwriter Jeffrey Scott, the upcoming 3D animation series, Robot ARPO, created a buzz at the recent Seoul [...]
Singapore - StarHub Ltd announced its results for the second quarter and first half ended 30 June 2010. The current quarter saw the continued investment in iPhones and other smart phones/devices in the Mobile business. On the Pay TV business, the broadcast of the FIFA World Cup [...]
Petaling Jaya - Media Prima Berhad (Media Prima) announced that it has to date a total of 96.12 percent of shares in the New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad (NSTP) pursuant to its takeover offer launched on 28 June 2010. Following the announcement on 4 August 2010 to Bursa [...]
Sydney - Disney Media Distribution Asia Pacific has signed an agreement with Channel Seven to produce a localized version of the Emmy award winning The Amazing Race series for the first time ever in Australia. As a part of this agreement, Disney and Seven are collaborating to [...]
Singapore - The Asian Food Channel (AFC) will be showcasing its first ever self produced cooking series in high definition featuring AFC’s resident chef and Asia’s most beloved culinary genius Chef Wan. Best Wan which premieres 17 August 2010, is a 10 part series which will be [...]
London - GlobeCast has signed a three-year deal with Vintage TV to provide an end-to-end content management and transport solution for the new channel. The deal, which includes a Sky EPG, multiplexing, uplink and capacity on the Eurobird 1 satellite, also includes playout and media [...]