Mansha Daswani

APOS, an event focused on the Asia Pacific media, telecoms and entertainment industry, is moving this year's edition to September as a result of coronavirus concerns.

Indian pay-TV platform Tata Sky is launching Tata Sky Hits this month in association with Rewind Networks, delivering classic U.S. TV shows from the 1980s and 1990s.

The organizers of Filmart in Hong Kong have moved the event from March to August over fears about the coronavirus outbreak.

Pierre Cheung has been promoted to senior VP and general manager for Asia at ViacomCBS Networks International, reporting to Raffaele Annecchino.

Rewind Networks has secured carriage for HITS Movies in Myanmar, where the channel will be made available in HD on Canal+.

Euan Smith, currently COO at Foxtel in Australia, is joining Astro Malaysia as group COO and CEO of its TV operations.

MIPTV, which runs from March 30 to April 2, will celebrate Korea as the 2020 Country of Honour.

OTT platform HOOQ will become available as a subscription offering on Mediacorp's meWATCH in Singapore.

Singapore's Mediacorp has rebranded Toggle as meWATCH, while also changing MeRadio to meLISTEN and MeClub to meREWARDS.

As growth slows in the AsiaPac pay-TV sector, major branded channel operators are likely to reduce investments in local feeds, transmission operations and original content, according to Media Partners Asia's (MPA) latest Asia Pacific Pay-TV Distribution report.