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CASBAA will now be known as the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) and have a new mandate to represent the interests of companies across the broader video industry.

CASBAA has rebranded its flagship annual event as the Asia Video Summit and is moving the convention back to Hong Kong this October 29 to November 1.

About 24 percent of Hong Kong consumers use a pirated TV box, according to industry association CASBAA.

A Melbourne-based company supplying IPTV set-top boxes delivering pirated content has been shut down following efforts by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and CASBAA's Coalition Against Piracy (CAP).

As competition intensifies, Asia’s leading pay-TV programmers are innovating their strategies for finding, and keeping, audiences.

CASBAA, which represents the interests of the Asian pay-TV industry, has formed the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) to tackle the region's rampant content theft problem.

SINGAPORE: CASBAA’s fourth OTT Summit will feature a series of panels, with executives from the Asian region weighing in on how traditional media is responding to the digital challenges of today’s television landscape.

HONG KONG: Jonathan Spink, the CEO of HBO Asia, has been elected as chairman of the board of directors for CASBAA for the next 12 months.

MACAU: Deutsche Welle (DW) operates two channels in Asia: DW, the English-language flagship channel that is now being broadcast in HD, and the German-language channel DW (Deutsch).

MACAU: Astro is now serving 5 million customers, which is 69 percent of Malaysian households, with growth primarily driven by its subscription-free TV service Njoi.