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HONG KONG: PCCW has unveiled more details about its planned free-to-air network, which will feature local as well as imported drama series, sports coverage courtesy of sister pay-TV company nowTV and more. Last week, the Hong Kong government approved in principle the issuing of a free-TV license to PCCW's HK ...

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SINGAPORE: BBC World News HD has secured carriage on TrueVisions in Thailand and Indonesia's First Media and Big TV. In Thailand, the channel has made the permanent move from SD to HD, and will be available via TrueVisions' TV Everywhere service when it launches next year. On First Media, the ...

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MELBOURNE: Rohan Lund, who has been serving as the group chief operating officer at Seven West Media, has been appointed COO at Foxtel. Lund takes up the new role as of January 20, 2014. Lund has held several high-profile posts prior to this, including as CEO of Yahoo! 7 and ...

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TOKYO: The Japanese pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW is teaming up with Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) to co-produce and broadcast the new drama Mozu. The pair previously collaborated on the drama Double Face. Mozu will be created by the same team that produced Double Face. The drama is based on the novel ...

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HONG KONG: CASBAA has elected Todd Miller, the CEO of Celestial Tiger Entertainment, and William Wade, the president and CEO of AsiaSat, to its board of directors. Miller and Wade are replacing retiring members Rob Gilby, the senior VP and managing director of Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific), and Steve ...

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SINGAPORE: The Asian Food Channel is gearing up to launch A Party Affair, its first locally produced program, and is planning to film its first travel reality series in the Philippines at the end of this year. The first season of A Party Affair makes its debut on November 20. ...

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HONG KONG: 21st Century Fox has sold its remaining 12.15-percent interest in Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings to private-equity firm TPG. In March, the company, through its Star Entertainment Holdings subsidiary, sold a 5.28-percent stake in Phoenix for $92 million. Phoenix operates a portfolio of Mandarin-language channels, including Phoenix Chinese Channel, ...

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SYDNEY: Australia's Seven Network and Beyond Productions have come together to create 7Beyond, a new venture aimed at developing programming initially for the North American marketplace. 7Beyond will have its home base in Los Angeles. The content generated by the venture will be co-produced by Seven Network's Seven Productions and ...

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NEW YORK: Ahead of CASBAA's kickoff tomorrow, AMC/Sundance Channel Global has announced new carriage deals in Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. LG Korea is set to begin offering Sundance Channel as a 24-hour linear HD network, adding to the service's carriage on Skylife, OllehTV by KT and B.TV by SK Broadband. ...

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HONG KONG: FOX International Channels in Asia has taken the exclusive first-window pay-TV rights in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia for a number of series from Disney Media Distribution, including Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. The pact expands on an output deal between ...

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