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q The Heart of Content in Asia StarHub boss exits end-Oct SPREAD THE LOVE Peter K steps down after two years, cites family health reasons

StarHub chief executive Peter Kaliaro- poulos is stepping down at the end of October after a little more than two years in the role. Kaliaropoulos cited serious health-related matters of a close family member. StarHub has launched a global hunt for his replacement and Kaliaro- poulos will remain on an interim transition committee.

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16 Aug debut for Change massively overdue, Shankar says HBO Asia sci-fi original Muscle memory & inertia must go, Disney boss tells APOS

Dream Raider HBO Asia’s first sci-fi original, Dream Raider, premieres on 16 August on streaming platform HBO Go and on the Vivek Couto, Media Partners Asia (MPA) Uday Shankar, Disney flagship HBO channel. The eight-episode Mandarin series, set in the near future, features a misfit team of scientists and Media was massively overdue for a ing... our instincts were right, what Jio cops trying to get to the bottom of a change before Covid-19 hit; cash has has done and others have followed is to criminal conspiracy that exploits human become a substitute for creative in- completely transform what was the big- consciousness. The series was backed by genuity in content creation leading to gest laggard in data into the most excit- the Taipei Film Commission and Taipei impossible breakeven costs; there’s no ing market in the world”. Cultural Foundation and directed by saying how many businesses will take Shankar pointed to the decision to Daniel Fu and Simon Hung. The execu- advantage of opportunities opening launch Disney+ in India “right in the mid- tive producer is Soi Cheang. New eps up post-pandemic; and streaming is dle of the crisis in April” when the whole drop every Sunday. the future of television, The Walt Disney country was in lockdown. Company APAC president and chair- “Advertising was interrupted, we could man, Star & Disney India, Uday Shankar not fulfil the marketing plans or the live q told delegates at Media Partners Asia’s sports… and yet we decided to launch APOS virtual event last week. and today we are by far the biggest ABS-CBN backs Duterte “A transformation was long overdue streaming service in India,” he said, talk- in strategy and ways of doing business,” ing about being at the epicentre of cre- education initiative Shankar said, adding that “muscle ating a “completely different level of memory and inertia generated over the digital ecosystem”. Forced to abandon its terrestrial TV years kept us going. “For us the only benchmark is can transmission network, embattled Philip- “Covid-19 and the disruption has Disney+Hotstar compete with our televi- pines broadcaster ABS-CBN has now brought the spotlight back firmly on sion channels in terms of reach, delivery offered the government the use of its how to get back to business and that’s and consumption. If streaming has to infrastructure for educational program- a great opportunity,” he said, highlight- become really mainstream and has to ming. ABS-CBN was pulled off air in May ing the opportunity to revisit costs, imple- serve the local population at scale and in a licensing battle that ended earlier ment different business models in the become sustainable in business terms, this month with the refusal to renew its face of advertising disruption and ad- that is the only metric anyone will have broadcast franchise. The network said justing the approach to creativity. to follow,” he said. the new initiative would “help govern- “In a couple of years, some compa- While streaming is the future, television ment educate students” during the nies will see themselves as created by was not going anywhere. pandemic. ABS-CBN has also offered the crisis and some will disappear,” he “I am not one of those ready to give access to 20 years worth of educational predicted. up on TV,” he said. programmes. Disney’s biggest metric of streaming Yet some streaming services will success was subscriber numbers, he emerge as real challenges to TV. said. “Our ambition is to be the biggest contentasia “I’m not a big believer in first mover competitor to television ourselves,” he advantage but we just happened to said, talking about a mobile universe be first movers in India at a time when of 750 million in India compared to a TV the market was not ready for stream- universe of 150-160 million. C NTENTASIA 27 July-6 September 2020 Page 6.

Distribution in the StarHub boss exits end-Oct after 2 years time of Covid Peter K returns to Sydney, cites family health reasons Asia’s distributors talk about their new realities

Distributors across Asia are loving and/ or loathing their new realities, telling ContentAsia that while some platforms in the region are scrambling to fill slates with acquisitions while original produc- tion restarts and live events resume, oth- ers have retreated behind their masks, pulling the covers over their heads, post- poning deals and holding their breath while they ride out the pandemic. Content spend varies by country and segment, with caution a common thread and strategies ranging from mon- ey-saving reruns to ramping up flibrary acquisitions broadcasters hope will keep stay-at-home audiences engaged. Buyers also seem to have discovered a new taste for classic titles that might not have seen the light of day under other circumstances, and the appetite for kids shows has gone through the roof. Some Peter K report rising demand for dialogue- shows that don’t incur language-cus- StarHub chief executive Peter Kalia- fees to their lowest levels ever, and, in the tomisation costs. ropoulos is stepping down at the end of last reported quarter, appears to have At the same time, distributors flagged October after a little more than two years slowed pay-TV subscriber erosion. a gyrating acquisition market that shifts in the role. Although the platform’s pay-TV base every few weeks, with buying cycles Kaliaropoulos cited serious health-relat- hit three-year lows at the end of March reduced in cases to 14 days and some ed matters of a close family member and 2020, the quarterly subs decrease slowed unexpected deals. The highest disrup- said, after 40 years in the industry across significantly to the lowest quarterly losses tion, predictably, has been among multiple countries, he would be retiring ever. StarHub now has 327,000 pay-TV advertising-supported platforms, while and moving back to Sydney. subscribers, down from 487,000 at the the least has been among global and StarHub said last night after the mar- end of March 2017. Arpu is down from regional players, some report. kets closed that a global search for his S$51/US$36 to S$38/US$27 – a drop of just Format sales have been hard hit, crip- replacement would begin immediately. under 26%. pled by production stoppages as well as Kaliaropoulos re-joined StarHub in July The biggest loss in the last 13 quar- by disappearing sponsorship. 2018, bringing with him sweeping chang- ters was in Q3 2019, when the platform The full report will be released during es that recalibrated TV’s cost to the Singa- dropped 27,000 subs in three months. This the ContentAsia Summit on 27-28 August. pore business, adjusted channel licensing followed a 20,000 loss in Q2 2019. CONTENTASIA AWARDS

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Pakistan

In numbers Population...... 207.7 million Households...... 32.2 million Avg household size...... 6.3 TV penetration...... 79% Daily av. TV viewership ...... 2 hours Mobile subscribers...... 163 million 3G/4G subscribers...... 73 million Broadband subscribers...... 75 million Broadband penetration...... 35.69%

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (population, households), PEMRA, Gallup Pakistan (TV vierwer- ship, April 2019), Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (mobile, broadband, Oct 2019)

Free TV ​​​ ATV Pakistan’s 2nd largest national TV broad- caster, est. June 2005. Operates two 24-hour general entertainment terrestrial Ehd E Wafa, Hum TV channels – ATV & A-Plus.

Pakistan Television Corporation subscription costs PKR300/US$1.90 for the hore). WTL also offers broadband inter- State-backed national TV broadcaster, first box and PKR150/US$1 for each addi- services to 1.2m subs. (Sept 2019). Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV, tional box. Also offers free subs-only live est. 1964), owns and operates eight streaming. Pay-TV Programmers & channels: PTV Home (entertainment, ); Channel Distributors PTV Bolan (general entertainment for Solo Media Group Balochistan province); PTV National (lo- Founded in 2011, Solo Media Group of- Ary Digital Network fers about 150 cable TV/radio channels, cal languages); PTV News; PTV Global; Ary Digital Network (inc. 2000) is a sub- including 12 in-house TV channels to us- PTV Sports; PTV World (English-language sidiary of the Dubai-based Ary Group. ers in . news/info service); and AJK TV. The Urdu-language network was cre-

ated after the Ary Group acquired a private TV channel catering to Pakistani Subscription Established in 2005, Wateen Telecom expats in the U.K. Ary Digital operates a ventured into cable TV in 2006 for HFC DWN TV bouquet of in-house and int’l channels customers. Now offers 80 SD and 100 DWN TV (Digital Wireless Network, est. across a range of genres. Ary Digital is HD local/int’l channels in Lahore/Mul- 2003) offers about 50 local/int’l channels available in 130 countries across SE Asia, tan. Monthly subscriptions for triple play to 425,000+ viewers in Islamabad/Rawal- Middle East and the U.K.. Ary Digital also packages are from PKR2,771/US$17.80 pindi, Lahore & Karachi. PKR550/US$3.50 offers online catch-up TV services and is for 80 analogue channels, 4 Mbps inter- a month, with a one-time starter fee of involved in film distribution via Ary Films. net and landline to PKR20,786/US$133.35 PKR17,000/US$109.50. for 100 digital TV channels, 100 Mbps Classic Broadcasting iconnection and landline in Lahore. Nayatel (NTL) Classic Entertainment, established in NTL, a sister company of broadband 2002, produces, airs and distributes Worldcall Telecom provider Micronet Broadband (MBL), entertainment, infotainment and music- WorldCall Telecom (WTL) was estab- launched a fibre to the home (FTTH)/ based TV content. Classic Entertain- lished in mid-1996 as a pay-phone ser- fibre to the user (FTTU) network in Sept ment’s bouquet in Pakistan includes vice. Offers 120+ digital and about 80 2006, offering triple-play services (broad- CNBC, CNN, NBC and Phoenix TV. analogue cable channels. Subscriptions band, telephony, pay TV) primarily in start from PKR500/US$3.20 for 3 months Faisalabad and Islamabad-Rawalpindi DM Digital for the WorldCall Digital TV package metro areas. The TV service offers 70+ Founded in 2005, DM Digital is a British- and PKR450/US$2.90 a month for the local/int’l TV channels from PKR400/ Pakistani TV network with offices in Man- WorldCall Cable TV package (for La- US$2.60 a month. Digital TV monthly chester (U.K.) and Lahore. DM Digital OUT NOW!

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manages and distributes a bouquet of Leo Television Network carries 3rd-party streaming services Starz channels, including DM Digital/DM Digi- Leo Communications was founded in Play by Cinepax (for PKR300/US$1.90 a tal World, DM News, DM Apna Bazaar May 1996 as a CATV equipment com- month) & Netflix (from PKR950/US$6.10 a (shopping), DM Global (entertainment) pany and continues to be involved in month). New subs get a free box worth and DM Dhoom TV (music/lifestyle/film). cable installation and maintenance. In PKR6,000/US$38.65. 2000, the company started distributing Geo TV Network channels. Leo’s bouquet includes local Starz Play by Cinepax Geo TV Network (est. May 2002) started services FilmWorld (Bollywood movies), Launched in Oct 2018, Starz Play by broadcasting commercially in Oct 2002. FilmAzia (general entertainment), Filmax Cinepax is a SVOD service by cinema The network operates in-house channels, (Urdu-dubbed Hollywood movies) and chain Cinepax. The platform offers 6,000 including , Aruj (family). hours of Hollywood/Pakistani/Bollywood (Urdu/Turkish drama, reality), film/TV content, to users in Pakistan and (sports), (breaking news) and Open Media Marketing (OMM) 20+ countries across MENA. (drama) and video portal OMM distributes national, regional and Geo Dost, and a feature film division. int’l TV and radio programmes, feature Geo TV transmits via satellite across films, documentaries, audio and video Regulators Pakistan, the Middle East, U.S., U.K. and music, multimedia software and media Ministry of Information and Europe. literature in Pakistan. OMM also provides Broadcasting production support services. Horizon Media The Ministry of Information & Broadcast- ing administers rules and regulations and Manages the distribution of United Arab laws relating to information, broadcast- Emirates-based entertainment channel IPTV/OTT/Streaming ing and the press in Pakistan. . Hum Network iflix launched in Pakistan in Jan 2017. Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Hum Network’s (formerly Eye Television Costs PKR300/US$1.90 a month. Established in 2002, PEMRA’s mandate is Network, est. 2004) in-house channels to facilitate and regulate licensing of all include 24-hour entertainment chan- PTCL Smart TV broadcast media (satellite TV & FM ra- nel Hum TV (local drama); Pakistan’s sole IPTV service, Smart TV, dio) and distribution services (cable TV, (food channel in Urdu); and launched in Aug 2008. The triple-play DTH, IPTV, mobile TV) in Pakistan. (foreign/local entertainment). platform offers 120+ TV channels and over 8,000 hours of VOD across 150 cit- Information & Systems ies. The regular TV plan costs PKR525/ Corporation Limited (ISCL) US$3.40 a month. VOD costs from PKR25/ Adapted from ContentAsia’s Distributes channels such as Toonami, US$0.16 per title to PKR300/US$1.90 per The Big List 2020 CNN and Cartoon Network in Pakistan. title for 48 hours unlimited viewing. Also

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July 2020 28-31 MIP China Virtual Conference

August 2020 18 AVIA Thailand in View Virtual Conference

24-27 NATPE Budapest International Virtual Event

27-28 ContentAsia Summit - The Social Distance Edition www.contentasiasummit.com

28 ContentAsia Awards www.contentasiaawards.com

26-29 Hong Kong Filmart Virtual Conference

September 2020 1-3 APOS 2020 Virtual Series Virtual Conference

8-11 BCWW Virtual Conference

10 AVIA Taiwan in View Taipei, Taiwan

10 AVIA Future of Video India Virtual Conference

TBC ACE Fair Online Virtual Event

17-19 Vietnam Telefilm Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

24-25 AVIA Satellite Industry Forum Virtual Conference

29 Sept-1 Oct BroadcastAsia/CommunicAsia Virtual Event

October 2020 9-14 Canneseries Cannes, France

10-11 MIP Junior Cannes, France

12-15 MIPCOM Cannes, France

21-22 SportsPro OTT Asia Virtual Conference

31 Oct-9 Nov 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival Tokyo, Japan

November 2020 4-6 TIFFCOM Tokyo, Japan

9-11 AVIA Asia Video Summit Singapore

18-20 Asian Animation Summit Bali, Indonesia

December 2020 2-4 Asia TV Forum & Market Singapore

7-8 Dubai International Content Market Dubai, U.A.E.

January 2021 19-21 Natpe 2021 Miami, U.S.

April 2021 10-11 MIP Doc 2021 Cannes, France

10-11 MIP Formats 2021 Cannes, France

12-15 MIP TV 2021 Cannes, France

June 2021 14-15 DW Global Media Forum 2021 Bonn, Germany

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Turkish drama races ahead in Pakistan Resurrection: Ertugrul decimates competition C NTENT

Editorial Director Turkish epic drama, Resurrection: Ertu- from India, continuing long-held cross- Janine Stein grul, left every other show in Pakistan border habits in the face of official op- [email protected] trailing for the week of 15-21 July, with position and efforts to restrict cultural Assistant Editor 78% more demand than the average influence between the two countries. Malena Amzah show in the market for the week, and Netflix dominated the digital originals [email protected] way ahead of second placed Game list for the week, giving one spot up to Events Manager of Thrones, according to the latest fig- Indian drama, Mirzapur, from Amazon CJ Yong ures from data science company Par- Prime Video, which placed fourth after [email protected] rot Analytics. Netflix’s Dark, The Witcher and Money Editorial Research Aqilah Yunus The other two Asia shows on the top Heist. [email protected] 10 overall list – Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah The second Indian title on the digital Chashmah and The Kapil Sharma Show list was Sacred Games, which placed Design from Sony Pictures Television – are both eighth. Rae Yong

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