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SYDNEY: Free-TV broadcasters invested a record AUD$1.35 billion ($1.41 billion) in Australian content for the 12 months ending in June 2012, according to Free TV Australia. This tops last year’s record AUD$1.23 billion. Commercial broadcasters’ investment in Australian content grew by AUD$267.6 million over the last two years. This figure far exceeds the ...

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BURBANK: Warner Bros. International Television has named Beibei Fan as its new VP of television distribution for China. For the past two years, Fan served as the director of television distribution for Disney Media Distribution. Prior to that she held the same title at Warner Bros. International Television.  As VP ...

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MELBOURNE: Russel Howcroft has been named the executive general manager for Australia’s Network Ten, taking effect in early 2013. He will be responsible for leading the operations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. He will report to James Warburton, the CEO of Network Ten. Prior to this appointment, Howcroft was ...

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HONG KONG: Celestial Tiger Entertainment has increased its content distribution agreement with Lionsgate to include all of East Asia. CTE already represents Lionsgate exclusively in Greater China and Southeast Asia, now adding Japan and Korea to that list. The pact covers Lionsgate TV content as well as the studio’s library of ...

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PREMIUM: Hisashi Hieda, the president and CEO of Fuji Media Holdings, shares with World Screen his strategy for Japan’s leading commercial broadcaster in the digital age.   WS: In the aftermath of the earthquake and the economic downturn, how has Japan’s advertising market performed over the last year? HIEDA: Total expenditure in ...

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HONG KONG: This year’s CASBAA Convention, which features the theme 18 Reasons Why, has lined up speakers such as Electus’s Ben Silverman, Discovery’s David Zaslav and Turner Broadcasting System International’s Gerhard Zeiler. Silverman, the founder of Electus, will deliver the keynote at CASBAA, which is taking place October 29 to ...

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SINGAPORE: SingTel’s mio TV, which is celebrating its fifth birthday, has signed an agreement with FOX International Channels (FIC) that adds 40 channels to its service. Through the new pact, mio TV gains FIC channels such as the English-language FOX HD, FX HD, National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild. The Chinese-language channels Channel ...

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LOS ANGELES: A regional office has been established in Singapore by CBS Studios International, with Nicole Sinclair tapped to lead the new hub. Sinclair is currently the director of sales in the Asia Pacific for the company. She will now be relocating from Australia to Singapore to take on the ...

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SINGAPORE: Following on its new look in North America, E! Entertainment Television is refreshing its logo, tagline and on-air branding in Asia starting September 23. The Pop of Culture! tagline and refreshed logo have already been rolled out in North America. Now, the all-new E! is headed across Asia. The ...

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LONDON: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has set up a new digital content initiative, entitled Steve Irwin’s Croc Bites, as part of its partnership with the Australia Zoo. The initiative, Steve Irwin’s Croc Bites, is being done in conjunction with Spring, FremantleMedia Australia’s brand funded and digital content division. FME will digitize ...

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