Blue Ant Entertainment & Blue Ant Extreme Score New Carriage Deals

Blue Ant Media’s international linear channels Blue Ant Entertainment and Blue Ant Extreme have secured new carriage deals across Southeast Asia.

The two channels launched new carriage deals with Indonesia’s subscription pay-TV satellite operator K-Vision and Papua New Guinea’s Click TV, via Blue Ant Media’s Kids & Global Networks division. Blue Ant Entertainment and Blue Ant Extreme also landed in Vietnam with pay-TV providers VTVcab and Next TV (“Viettel”) as of early April 2018. Additionally, Blue Ant Media renewed its carriage deals for both channels with Mongolian pay-TV provider Univision.

The two channels are now widely distributed across 12 Southeast Asian countries and a range of platforms, including PPCTV from Cambodia; CABLE TV, nowTV and myTV SUPER from Hong Kong; First Media and BIGTV from Indonesia; Macau Cable TV; unifi TV from Malaysia; SKY and 66 additional provincial operators in the Philippines; Digicel Play and HITRON from Papua New Guinea; StarHub from Singapore; and TrueVisions and AIS PLAY from Thailand. Transvision from Indonesia also carries Blue Ant Entertainment, while Canal+ Myanmar FG carries Blue Ant Extreme.

Beatrice Lee, the CEO of Blue Ant Media Asia Pacific, stated, “Blue Ant Extreme and Blue Ant Entertainment are proven ‘must-see’ television channels across the Asia Pacific, bringing audiences across the region high-demand factual programming, late night shows and dramatic series. Our latest round of carriage deals across Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and Mongolia highlight the strength of Blue Ant Entertainment and Blue Ant Extreme’s programming, which will now reach more fans than ever before.”