World Screen

BALI: Scripps Networks International has been working to develop clear programming and branding strategies for Asian Food Channel (AFC), Food Network and Travel Channel in the Asia Pacific. The company has also been focused on expanding distribution for these networks throughout the region. In the past year, Scripps Networks International …

NEW YORK: TV AsiaPac examines how channels, pay-TV platforms and distributors are finding both pitfalls and rewards as they traverse Asia’s nonlinear content business. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when the prospect of selling an American or British drama into China for nationwide broadcast was utterly inconceivable. …

BALI: Rewind Networks is working closely with pay-TV operators across the Asia-Pacific region to bring HITS to their subscribers in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The basic-tier channel delivers hit shows from the last three decades such as The Cosby Show, Seinfeld and Criminal Minds in HD for the …

CENTURY CITY: Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products hired Pinky David as VP for the Asia Pacific, where the company has opened its first consumer products office in the region. In her new post, David will be expected to manage licensing sales and retail programs throughout the Asia Pacific. She will …

BALI: As Asia's multichannel industry convenes in Bali this week for the Asia Pacific Operators Summit (APOS), a key topic will be how the business can move beyond the region's 52-percent pay-TV penetration rate against a backdrop of slowing subscriber gains, with just 26 million net new additions in 2013, …

SINGAPORE: As part of its ongoing efforts to combat piracy, HBO Asia will start premiering all HBO and Cinemax original content in the region less than 24 hours after the U.S. broadcast. The move kicks off this July with the new Cinemax series The Knick starring Clive Owen and directed …

HONG KONG: Ex-Universal Networks International programming director Marianne Lee is joining Turner International Asia Pacific in May to serve as the pan-regional broadcast group's VP of general entertainment content. Lee is tasked with executing the content and channel strategy for Turner's general entertainment brands in the region: WarnerTV (a new …

HONG KONG: BBC Worldwide has made four new senior hires within its Asian business, all of whom will be based in Singapore. Laura Byrnes becomes the VP and head of business and legal affairs for Asia. She was previously the director of legal and business affairs for NBCUniversal Asia Pacific. …

BEIJING: Youku Tudou has entered into definitive agreements with a joint investment vehicle of Alibaba Group Holding Limited and Yunfeng Capital that gives it a $1.22 billion injection. After taking into account the shares to be issued in the transaction, Alibaba and Yunfeng Capital will indirectly hold approximately 16.5 percent …

SYDNEY: Ben Ulm, an award-winning producer, has joined ITV Studios Australia in the newly created position of head of content. Ulm has developed and produced content for all Australian free-to-air networks, pay TV, U.K. broadcasters and U.S. networks. Most recently he was the head of factual entertainment at WTFN, where …