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January-February 2012 Contents

January-February 2012

Cover Story

  • Roll with it

    by Marc Checkley

    As I write, it has just gone a month since the year of Asian television came to a celebratory crescendo at the Awards ceremony in Singapore. Along with the new and tweaked award categories - which garnered some of the highest entries - it was also fantastic to see a number of fi rst time winners and a real diversity in programmes being awarded.

Features

  • On the right side

    by Kelvin Ong

    Asian Side of the Doc (ASD) kicks off this year on March 19 in Tokyo. Now in its third year, the event has become a fi rm fi xture for the region’s documentary fi lmmakers and broadcasters. Co-organizer and documentary maker Keiko Bang, talks exclusively to TV ASIA Plus about the craft of factual programming and where the genre is at in Asia.

  • It's a wrap

    by Kelvin Ong

    It was an evening of firsts and surprises at the 16th Asian Television Awards (ATA), held on December 8 in Singapore, where some of the best in Asian television gathered in their fi nest to celebrate the highs of Asian television in the past year.

  • Slow and steady

    by Kelvin Ong

    It’s been a year of launches and expansion for Indonesian tele, but the larger picture is one of evolution rather than revolution. Still, opportunities abound for the fourth largest population in the world, with rising incomes and an appetite for diverse entertainment. And it is clear there is a lot more that can be done to turn Indonesia into a thriving content market. TV ASIA Plus explains.

  • My three wishes

    by Kelvin Ong

    Whether they come true or not, wishes are a great thing to hope for. Television execs also have their fair share of dreams for this new year of content and TV ASIA Plus asks a few of them, just what they are.