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MELBOURNE: Presto TV becomes the exclusive Australian SVOD home for the hit sitcom Modern Family as part of a content agreement with 20th Century Fox, which also includes series such as Homeland and The X-Files. Presto TV will offer its subscribers all episodes of the first four seasons of Modern …

SYDNEY: Rory Callaghan, the executive director of Shine Australia, is to join the Screentime Group as CEO, with Bob Campbell appointed as the company's executive chairman. Callaghan will join Screentime later this year, when his term at Shine Australia concludes. Previously, Callaghan was the CEO of Southern Star. Both Callaghan …

HONG KONG: Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific is slated to launch World Heritage Channel, a new pan-regional premium documentary network celebrating mankind's greatest treasures, in Asia. The channel will feature such programming categories as nature, travel, history and culture, and will take viewers on journeys to UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. …

HONG KONG: FOX International Channels will be providing integrated marketing opportunities for brands such as TRESemmé, Close Up, Subaru and Zalora during the third season of Asia’s Next Top Model. The competition show’s latest run premieres on StarWorld on March 25. This season, a new panel of judges will guide …

SYDNEY: Free TV Australia is asking the senate to block moves that would allow SBS to double its advertising in prime time, alleging that the proposed bill creates a fourth commercial TV license "by stealth." The group is taking issue that SBS would have the same amount of advertising in …

HONG KONG: FOX International Channels (FIC) has acquired the exclusive pay-TV rights to air the late-night talk show Conan in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Conan will be broadcast in those countries on FX within 36 hours after its U.S. broadcast. FIC intends to position Conan as a tent-pole …

SYDNEY: BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) has licensed more than 200 hours of music and arts programming to Foxtel Arts, a new network that is due to debut later this month. The package includes concerts from the BBC Proms classic music festival, such as Brahms Night and Wagner's …

SYDNEY: Network Ten has commissioned The Great Australian Spelling Bee, a new family entertainment series from Shine Australia. The Great Australian Spelling Bee is slated for broadcast later in the year. Rick Maier, Network Ten's head of drama, worked with Shine Australia to develop the original format. A host for …

MELBOURNE: Presto has added to its on-demand catalogue a slew of programming from Foxtel's History channel, including content that commemorates the centenary of WWI. Part of the package includes the locally produced five-part series The Memorial: Beyond the ANZAC, as well as Tony Robinson's Tour of Duty. Episodes from Tour …

SYDNEY: The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report, covering Q4 2014, finds that viewing of video content on internet-connected devices is up year-on-year, but remains small relative to the amount of time that Australians spend watching broadcast TV on in-home sets. Household take-up of internet-capable devices reached a new high in Q4 …