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PREMIUM: New-media rights and shortened windows are becoming increasingly important factors for the buying strategy at MediaCorp, according to Joy Olby Tan, VP of network acquisitions at Singapore’s Channel 5. What have been some of your most successful acquisitions recently? Our day and date telecast of X Factor and branded ...

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SYDNEY: Australia’s minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy has outlined a series of measures to ensure that quality Australian television programming continues to be shown across the country. Senator Stephen Conroy, the deputy leader of the government in the senate, has said that the government will immediately extend ...

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HONG KONG: The Korean entertainment service channel M is serving as the exclusive regional media partner for the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) and will be airing live broadcast coverage of the event. The recently launched Korean entertainment channel is a joint venture between FOX International Channels and CJ E&M. channel ...

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HONG KONG: FOX One Stop Media (FOSM), the integrated ad sales solutions division of FOX International Channels, is adding Innovid’s iRoll formats to .FOX, its international digital ad network, allowing advertisers in Southeast Asia and the Middle East to create interactive videos. iRoll formats will make it possible for advertisers ...

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PREMIUM: As the VP of programming for English content at Sony Pictures Television’s networks in Asia, Yan-Jong Wong is acquiring for a portfolio that includes AXN, SET and beTV. What have been some of your most successful acquisitions recently for AXN, beTV and SET? Last Resort, which premiered in October, ...

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SINGAPORE: The amount of multi-screen, multiplatform offerings of legitimate programming is rapidly increasingly throughout Singapore, according to the findings of a new report from CASBAA and the international media and technology law firm Olswang. It has been argued before that Singaporean consumers’ lack of access to quality digital content is ...

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PREMIUM: Marianne Lee, the director of programming and acquisitions at Universal Networks International in Asia, shares her buying strategy for DIVA, Universal Channel and Syfy. What are the main genres you are acquiring? DIVA Universal delivers great drama, be it scripted or non-scripted, targeted at the modern female working adult. ...

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SINGAPORE: Sanford Panitch, the president of Fox International Productions, a division of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, is lined up to deliver the opening keynote at this year’s Asia TV Forum, which kicks off December 4. Panitch’s keynote is entitled “Creativity Beyond Borders: Asia and the Global Market Place—Opportunities for the ...

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PREMIUM: The demand for imported feature films has increased at FOX International Channels in the Asia Pacific, according to its head of acquisitions, Michael Dick. What have been some of your most successful acquisitions recently for your English-language general entertainment channels? It’s really hard to pick one show or deal ...

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BOSTON: New Zealand’s TVNZ is working with Brightcove on a new on-demand catch-up TV app for Apple iOS and Google Android devices that will use cloud-based technology to let viewers watch their favorite shows on the go. Brightcove is a leader in cloud content services. The TVNZ onDemand app will use the ...

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