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FME and MDA in multi-platform content pact
Cable, 7 April 2008

Cannes – FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) and the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore have signed a multi-year production agreement for content with bilateral investment of up to US$12 million over the next 2 years. The deal extends form the production of Kylie Kwong: [...]

Disney Channel Worldwide picks up Aardman’s Timmy
Cable, 7 April 2008

Burbank/Cannes – Disney Channel Worldwide including Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America have acquired global rights for stop-motion animated series Timmy from UK production company Aardman Animations. The preschoolers’ show will premiere [...]

Disney Channel Australia and NZ takes Beyond’s New Macdonald’s Farm
Cable, 7 April 2008

Cannes – Disney Channel Australia and New Zealand has acquired rights to Beyond Distribution’s children’s title New Macdonald’s Farm to air in July 2008. New Macdonald’s Farm is a 45-episode series for 2-5 year old preschoolers with a focus on music to encourage children to imagine [...]

Echo Bridge to acquire Alliance Atlantis International Distribution
Cable, 7 April 2008

Needham/Los Angeles – Echo Bridge Entertainment will acquire, through a share purchase, Alliance Atlantis International Distribution from Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. The deal will allow Echo Bridge Entertainment to distribute rights to first run and catalogue programming from [...]

Celestial Pictures’ Shaw Brothers titles reach Japan and Central Europe
Cable, 7 April 2008

Hong Kong – Celestial Pictures has signed content deals with Kadokawa Entertainment and MGM Channel Central Europe to provide Shaw Brothers titles to multiple platforms in Japan, and pay TV in central Europe. In Japan, Shaw Brothers Library titles are being offered across video, [...]

AXN to premiere Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Cable, 4 April 2008

Singapore – AXN will premiere action series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on April 8, 2008. the effects-laden series is an extension of the Terminator franchise starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles airs Tuesdays at 10pm in Singapore, the [...]

Consortium acquires Korea’s C&M
Cable, 2 April 2008

Seoul – An MBK Partners and Macquarie Korea Opportunities Fund (MKOF) led-consortium has acquired a 92.5 percent stake in C&M for a total of 2 trillion won (US$2billion). The deal makes C&M, Korea’s second biggest cable operator, the country’s first cable TV operator to be owned [...]

English business news channel UTVi to launch in India
Cable, 2 April 2008

Mumbai – The Promoter group has unveiled UTVi, a new English business news channel to be launched in India. Positioned for the ‘growing business aspirations of a Young India’, UTVi aims to provide a 360-degree perspective on business, beyond stocks and shares, ‘de-jargonize’ financial [...]

Taiwan in focus
Cable, 1 April 2008

Terrestrial TV is facing problems so profound and on so many levels that toward the end of a two-hour interview, Jack Hsiao-Cheng Chi, senior specialist, department of planning, National Communications Commission (NCC), asked his interviewer, “Why do you feel such pity for them?” [...]

Edging into the digital age
Cable, 1 April 2008

In what insiders described to be a reluctant move given the lack of tangible government support, Hong Kong’s free-to-air broadcasters Television Broadcasts (TVB) and Asia Television (ATV) rolled out digital TV services on the very last day of 2007 to meet the government-mandated [...]