World Screen

HONG KONG: Jenny Setnicker has been tapped by CASBAA to serve as head of advertising development, responsible for marketing the benefits of multichannel advertising. Setnicker is based in Singapore. She will work to promote the value proposition for pay TV to media agencies, clients and network owners. She will also …

HONG KONG: The Korean drama TEN is set to air first and exclusively on KIX and KIX HD. TEN follows the investigations of Special Affairs Team TEN, a unit that specializes in violent and mysterious cases that have a less than 10-percent chance of being solved. Joo Sang Wook and …

NEW YORK/BRISTOL/HONG KONG: News Corporation is taking 100-percent control of the ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) joint venture, which operates sports networks across 24 Asian markets. ESPN says the move to offload its 50-percent stake in ESS will give it "more independence and flexibility in future support of The Walt Disney Company’s overall efforts in Asia." …

MUMBAI: Endemol India, now 49-percent owned by Peter Chernin‘s CA Media, has made two new executive appointments: Abhishek Rege as COO of television and Doris Dey as head of fiction. In April, Chernin’s Asian investment arm, CA Media, announced its investment in Endemol’s Indian operation. With the capital investment, Endemol India is …

SINGAPORE: StarHub TV customers are gaining access to their subscription plan directly across multiple screens through the new value-added service TV Anywhere. The Internet TV platform starhubtv.com, currently in its beta phase, will deliver cable customers access to up to 12 channels, depending on their subscription plan. More than 600 hours of …

HONG KONG: Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific has appointed Melissa Tinker to serve as VP of Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE). CNE has been expanding its business across the region, including branded learning centers and themed destinations in addition to traditional categories such as toys, apparel, home entertainment, publishing and lifestyle. Tinker …

LOS ANGELES: CBS Studios International has entered a deal with Japan’s Avex Broadcasting & Communications to deliver programming such as NCIS and 90210 to the d Market Video Store subscription on-demand video service for mobile devices. The multi-year, non-exclusive agreement will see CBS content available on Avex’s SVOD service available …

  This article originally appeared in the MIPTV 2012 issue of TV Asia Pacific.   India has been the international media market to watch during the last few years, a position the populous nation will undoubtedly retain as digitization takes hold. With the government having set 2015 as the deadline …

LONDON: FremantleMedia is setting up a new office in Chennai in order to develop more content for India’s non-Hindi-speaking markets, adding to an existing production base in Mumbai. "This is a fantastic opportunity for FremantleMedia Asia," said Ian Hogg, CEO of FremantleMedia Asia Pacific. "India is the second most populous …

SINGAPORE: The number of IPTV subscribers worldwide will increase 70 percent from 2012 to 2017, with 100 percent growth in the Asia Pacific, reports ABI Research. There are currently 28.5 million IPTV subscribers in the Asia Pacific. Globally, pay-TV subs will reach 853.5 million by the end of the year, …