Singapore – The IPTV World Forum Asia 2007, held Dec. 5-7 in Singapore, saw Cisco announce its strategy for the delivery of end-to-end Internet Protocol television (IPTV) solutions in Asia Pacific.
“Cisco is perhaps the only technology vendor today who can provide the products, [...]
Sydney - The subscription TV universe in Australia now reaches 31% of all Australian people and 27% of all Australian homes, equating to 6.1 million people and 2.01 million homes.
That’s according to figures released last week by the Australian Subscription Television and Radio [...]
Hong Kong / New York – STAR and KyLinTV have launched on the latter’s IPTV platform in North America, Mandarin-language STAR Chinese Channel from Dec 1, and will debut Channel [V] Taiwan and a movie channel.
STAR Chinese Channel is an entertainment channel in Taiwan which offers [...]
Sydney— Australia’s Nine Network will launch its first HD channel in March 2008, following the Dec. 16 debut of Ten-HD and Seven HD, which bowed in October.
In contrast to Ten and Seven, which have hyped their HD services as exciting new entertainment options which complement [...]
ACCORDING to the Nielsen Media Index 2007 survey, traditional media continue to sustain their mass audience presence. But Internet and cable TV, traditionally seen as ‘new’ or ‘alternative’, have moved a step closer to ‘mainstream’ media status with about half the population viewing [...]
Ross Pollack Senior Vice President, Distribution, Asia, Sony Pictures Television InternationalRoss Pollack is SPTI’s Senior Vice President, Distribution, Asia, a position he assumed in 2004. Based at SPTI’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong, he heads SPTI’s Licensing group Asia-wide [...]
Singapore – Andrew Yap, Chairman of Asian Video-on-Demand content supplier Anytime, has assumed the duties of CEO Craig Zimbulis, who resigned on Oct. 4, and Greg Coote, who stepped down as Chairman on Nov. 8.
Yap said, “It is a natural evolution for any company to experience [...]
Petaling Jaya - Malaysia’s dominant broadcaster Media Prima Berhad (MPB) will launch a pay-per-download offering by the end of December/early 2008, followed by a Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVOD) service.
The new services will draw on MPB’s content of more than 30,000 hours, [...]
Sydney- Moonlight TV, Australia’s first IPTV service, is due to launch Dec. 1, initially offering seven channels.
Owned by Prime Media Group following its acquisition of the Becker Group, the ad-supported service will be free to users. The line-up spans these categories: Amazing; [...]
Hong Kong – CASBAA will focus on the increasing impact of mobile technologies and the further development of pay-TV advertising in 2008, said Marcel Fenez, Global Managing Partner, Entertainment and Media Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, who was re-elected for a two-year term [...]