Mansha Daswani

HONG KONG: THEMA Singapore has reached a deal with LeEco to bring the music channel iConcerts to Hong Kong next month.

LONDON: Discovery Communications has picked up a majority stake in Turmeric Vision, the company founded by Indian culinary celebrity Sanjeev Kapoor that runs the FoodFood pay-TV network, among other assets.

BALI: Asian OTT operator HOOQ has inked a deal with Indonesian mobile telco Telkomsel that will allow customers to sign up to the SVOD service without the need of a credit card.

BALI: MTV Hits, a curated international music channel, has launched in Japan on the internet TV platform AbemaTV.

SINGAPORE: The anime network ANIPLUS has clinched deals to expand to Thailand and the Philippines.

BALI: Astro is aligning with telco Globe to bring the Tribe OTT platform to the Philippines.

BALI: For every new dollar added to the media ecosystem in the Asia Pacific over the next five years, close to 60 cents will be from digital services, Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia (MPA), told delegates at APOS in Bali this morning.

BALI: Hong Kong's leading pay-TV platform, nowTV, has landed the broadcast rights for UEFA EURO 2016 matches.

BALI: CJ E&M is rebranding its Southeast Asian pay-TV service channel M as tvN this June and is launching a new platform, tvN Movies.

BALI: OTT service iflix has entered into a partnership with Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo and has announced the appointment of David Goldstein as its head of Asia.