Mumbai - India’s Bollywood music channel – 9XM, has partnered with Kids Media India Pvt. Ltd (KMI) to create a full licensing & merchandising program around the channels’ popular characters – Bade-Chote and Bheegi Billi by extending them into the product & promotional licensing space [...]
Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur/Manila/Singapore - Singapore’s Holly Grabarek was announced and sworn in as the winner of the MTV VJ Hunt 2010 in front of 15,000 music fans at the MTV World Stage Live In Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. The new face of MTV Asia now begins her new lease of life [...]
Singapore - SingTel displayed the distinguished trophies of the four renowned leagues – Barclays Premier League, FA Cup, UEFA Champions League (UCL) and the UEFA Europa League UEL to celebrate the start of the next football season on mio TV. The trophies have been specially flown [...]
Hong Kong - CASBAA announced that Nick Brien, chairman & CEO of advertising giant McCann Worldgroup, will participate in an ‘In Conversation’ session at the CASBAA Convention 2010 in Hong Kong on October 26. Among the many areas covered in a ‘fireside chat’ format at the CASBAA [...]
Kuala Lumpur - Astro took home an award in the Investment in People category at the prestigious Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Awards (AREA) 2010 for its outstanding commitment to corporate responsibility and personal development of its people. Dato’ Rohana Rozhan, Chief [...]
National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) and Fox International Channels (FIC) announced the appointment of Karin Simoncini as managing director of NGCI and FIC in Australia and New Zealand. The appointment follows Ric Burns’ decision to return to retirement. Based at [...]
Paris - GlobeCast has confirmed that its chairman and CEO Christian Pinon will be leaving the company as of 30 September to pursue a new opportunity in the television products division at Orange France. His successor will be Olivier Barberot, formerly executive VP of human resources [...]
Hong Kong - Tiger Gate Entertainment has announced the appointment of Jef Lim as head of programming and production. Lim will be based in the company’s Hong Kong headquarters and will report to William Pfieffer, CEO, Tiger Gate Entertainment. As head of programming and production, [...]
Shanghai - The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Shanghai Media Group (SMG) signed a co-operation agreement which will provide the basis for a long term partnership between their international channels; Australia Network and International Channel Shanghai (ICS). The [...]
Singapore - Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) announced that it will be launching TLC in the region from 1 September 2010. TLC, one of the fastest growing lifestyle channels in the US, will replace Discovery Travel & Living in DNAP’s portfolio of seven networks that includes [...]