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TORONTO: 108 Media has joined forces with Mike Leeder, a seasoned talent in Asian action cinema production, who will collaborate with the company's senior development team to help increase its slate of Asian content.

SINGAPORE/THAILAND: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has expanded the footprint of the Paramount Channel, bringing it into Asia through a distribution deal with CTH, a major pay-TV operator in Thailand.

MUMBAI: IndiaCast has strengthened the global footprint of Viacom18’s Hindi general-entertainment channel Colors, which is now part of the Sky lineup in New Zealand.

SINGAPORE: Bomanbridge Media has secured an agreement with NBCUniversal for the pan-Asian broadcast of the Canadian version of the cooking show Chef in Your Ear on its lifestyle channel Diva in pan-Asia.

BRISTOL: Through a newly signed collaboration, ESPN’s content will be localized and exclusively distributed by Tencent’s digital platforms in China.

QUEZON CITY: ABS-CBN Corporation has named Cory Vidanes as the company's chief operating officer of broadcast, effective today.

SYDNEY: Free TV Australia has rejected the latest calls from pay TV to undermine the anti-siphoning rules, which allow free-to-air networks to bid for big-ticket sporting events ahead of pay-TV operators.

SINGAPORE: Eleven new made-for-digital productions, called Toggle Originals, are slated to premiere next month on MediaCorp’s bilingual OTT portal.

NEW YORK: Mingcheng Tao has become CEO of the Chinese VOD platform YOU On Demand.

LOS ANGELES: An exclusive licensing agreement has been signed by CBS Corporation and Stan that brings the Showtime brand and programming to Australia on the streaming service.