{"id":10817,"date":"2018-01-16T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/discovery-launches-free-air-block-southeast-asia\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:30:08","slug":"discovery-launches-free-to-air-block-in-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/discovery-launches-free-to-air-block-in-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Launches Free-to-Air Block in Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery Networks Asia Pacific has launched its first free-to-air block in Southeast Asia, where Discovery Hour will be featured on Thailand\u2019s PPTV.<\/p>\n<p>Starting February 1, PPTV viewers in Thailand will be able to watch a range of hit Discovery shows on the Discovery Hour, running from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. daily. The block will feature content from five of the network\u2019s most popular genres: survival, extreme jobs, pop science, motoring and science.\u00a0Titles include\u00a0<em>Ed Stafford: Into the Unknown<\/em>,\u00a0Y<em>ou Have Been Warned,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Venom Hunters<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Diesel Brothers<\/em>,\u00a0<em>How We Invented the World<\/em> and\u00a0local production <em>Worst Vacation Ever<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shavkat Berdiev, the VP and general manager of Southeast Asia at Discovery Networks Asia Pacific, said: \u201cWe are really excited to launch our first free-to-air block in Southeast Asia with PPTV to bring our shows to even more viewers in Thailand. We have a huge library of content and we are looking forward to entertaining new audiences who have never experienced the Discovery brand before. At the same time, this also creates an even bigger appetite for our shows that are already airing in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surin Krittayaphongphun, the president of Bangkok Media &amp; Broadcasting, said, \u201cWe must focus on acquiring quality shows in order to stay in the game. Our aim is to enable the greater public audience to access international quality content, better yet in high definition quality. Therefore, you\u2019ll see that the program lineup on PPTV this year will consist of a good mix of premium content, many of which are from the world\u2019s top content providers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery Networks Asia Pacific has launched its first free-to-air block in Southeast Asia, where Discovery Hour will be featured on Thailand\u2019s PPTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":10818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2683,2390],"class_list":["post-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-discovery-networks-asia-pacific","tag-pptv","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Discovery Launches Free-to-Air Block in Southeast Asia - 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