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BEIJING: China’s Youku Tudou has secured a five-year deal with Sony Pictures Television that brings some 300 new titles to the premium online video platform, which already has agreements in place with studios such as Twentieth Century Fox, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. and more. Three hundred titles from the Sony Pictures ...

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HONG KONG: FOX Movies Premium (FMP), STAR Chinese Movies (SCM) and now TV have come together to launch a new and exclusive Play catch-up service. now TV customers with FMP and SCM can access FOX Movies Play and SCM Play through the now Player website. The Play service allows subscribers to ...

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SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has extended its broadcast rights for The Masters Tournament professional golf championship, which it will air across multiple platforms in Asia, excluding South Korea. ESS will broadcast The Masters live coverage in addition to half-hour daily highlights and live on-the-ground reports in English and in ...

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MUMBAI/LONDON: BBC Worldwide is closing down the Indian feeds of CBeebies and BBC Entertainment, citing delays in the digitization process and the "challenging" economics of operating pay-TV channels in the country. The two channels will be shuttered at the end of this month. BBC World News will remain on Indian airwaves. ...

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SINGAPORE: The HBO GO service is set to begin its Asian rollout in Hong Kong in the first quarter of 2013, in partnership with now TV, delivering shows 12 hours after their premiere on the premium channel in the U.S. HBO GO is slated to deliver around 1,000 hours of HBO ...

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TOKYO: Sony Corporation posted a net loss attributable to shareholders of 15.5 billion yen ($194 million) compared to the year-ago loss of 27 billion yen ($337 million). Sony saw its operating income increase, at 30.3 billion yen for the second quarter, compared to last year’s operating loss of 1.6 billion ...

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SINAGPORE: ScreenSingapore, which will run alongside the Asia TV Forum, is hosting the world premiere of The Last Tycoon on December 4.  The film is directed by Wong Jing and is produced by Andrew Lau. Chow Yun-fat, Huang Xiao Ming, Sammo Hung and Yolanda Yuan star in the feature. The ...

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SYDNEY: Ten Network Holdings has signed a new and unconditional agreement to sell Eye Corp. to Outdoor Media Operations.  The deal sees Eye’s operations in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., the U.S. and Indonesia under new ownership. Outdoor Media Operations, which is controlled by Champ Private Equity, is the owner ...

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HONG KONG: Simon Twiston Davies, who is stepping down as CEO of CASBAA as of December 31, has been honored with the annual CASBAA Chairman’s Award at the final day of the Convention in Hong Kong.  The new CEO, Christopher Slaughter, steps into the role at the start of 2013. ...

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MELBOURNE: Shareholders of Consolidated Media Holdings (CMH) have approved News Corporation’s AUS$1.94 billion ($2.01 billion) takeover of the company, giving it an increased presence in the Australian pay-TV market.  The deal sees News Corp. doubling its stake in Foxtel, to 50 percent. It also takes on full ownership of Fox ...

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