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SINGAPORE: Sanford Panitch, the president of Fox International Productions, a division of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, is lined up to deliver the opening keynote at this year’s Asia TV Forum, which kicks off December 4. Panitch’s keynote is entitled “Creativity Beyond Borders: Asia and the Global Market Place—Opportunities for the …

PREMIUM: As the VP of programming for English content at Sony Pictures Television’s networks in Asia, Yan-Jong Wong is acquiring for a portfolio that includes AXN, SET and beTV. What have been some of your most successful acquisitions recently for AXN, beTV and SET? Last Resort, which premiered in October, …

SINGAPORE: The amount of multi-screen, multiplatform offerings of legitimate programming is rapidly increasingly throughout Singapore, according to the findings of a new report from CASBAA and the international media and technology law firm Olswang. It has been argued before that Singaporean consumers’ lack of access to quality digital content is …

HONG KONG: FOX One Stop Media (FOSM), the integrated ad sales solutions division of FOX International Channels, is adding Innovid’s iRoll formats to .FOX, its international digital ad network, allowing advertisers in Southeast Asia and the Middle East to create interactive videos. iRoll formats will make it possible for advertisers …

SYDNEY: Australia’s minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy has outlined a series of measures to ensure that quality Australian television programming continues to be shown across the country. Senator Stephen Conroy, the deputy leader of the government in the senate, has said that the government will immediately extend …

HONG KONG: The Korean entertainment service channel M is serving as the exclusive regional media partner for the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) and will be airing live broadcast coverage of the event. The recently launched Korean entertainment channel is a joint venture between FOX International Channels and CJ E&M. channel …

SINGAPORE: The ESPN STAR Sports portfolio of channels will be available on both pay-TV platforms in Singapore, StarHub and mioTV, following the signing of new non-exclusive deals this weekend. For the past three years, the sports bouquet has solely been carried in mioTV, after SingTel’s IPTV platform clinched an exclusive pact for …

PREMIUM: New-media rights and shortened windows are becoming increasingly important factors for the buying strategy at MediaCorp, according to Joy Olby Tan, VP of network acquisitions at Singapore’s Channel 5. What have been some of your most successful acquisitions recently? Our day and date telecast of X Factor and branded …

    Buyers heading to ATF are seeking out high-quality, cost-effective imports across a variety of genres.     As pay-TV penetration rates have slowly crept up across Asia—the regional figure now stands at about 57 percent—cable and satellite channels have been taking an increasing share of prime-time viewing. Recent figures from …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issue of TV Asia Pacific. Malaysia’s dominant pay-TV platform with a 50-plus penetration rate of TV homes, Astro is widely seen as Southeast Asia’s most technologically savvy operator. Over the past year the company has been rolling out high definition, DVRs and …