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#GreatJobs C NTENT page 7 www.contentasia.tv l www.contentasiasummit.com 4-17 March 2019 Malaysia’s Enjoy TV goes live Platform pushes legal streaming box message New Malaysian subscription platform, Enjoy TV, took to market on 1 March with a hail mary message – being legal – in a market rife with illegal streaming boxes. Enjoy TV & Film Broadcasting Corpora- tion (ETBC) bosses obviously think their anti-piracy message is worth a try, urging rights holders to come on board and help nurture the industry. The full story is on page 2 Discovery Asia digs in on Viet distribution split HGTV formally joins AFC at Thaole, Q.Net keeps Discovery Discovery’s HGTV has publicly joined the Thaole Entertainment family in Viet- nam at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City, digging in on its channel bouquet split between rival distributors Q.Net, which distributes Discovery-branded channels, and Thaole, which distributes former Scripps channels, Asian Food Channel (AFC) and now HGTV. The full story is on page 2 What else is inside... • StarHub slashes channel pricing by 75%, shifts value to fibre broadband • Sony’s Alistair Jennings takes on new role at MPAA in Asia • Gaumont greenlights India production • PLUS a whole lot more... C NTENTASIA 4-17 March 2019 Page 2. Discovery Asia Malaysia’s Enjoy TV goes live digs in on Viet Platform pushes legal streaming message distribution split HGTV formally joins AFC at Thaole, Q.Net keeps Discovery Property Brothers Launch of Malaysian subscription platform, Enjoy TV, in Kuala Lumpur on 1 March Discovery’s HGTV publicly joined the Thaole Entertainment family in Vietnam New Malaysian subscription platform, Details were not immediately available. at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City Enjoy TV, took to market on 1 March with Lead actor Wang Rui attended the En- this month, digging in on its channel a hail mary message – being legal – in a joy TV launch party. bouquet split between rival distributors market rife with illegal streaming boxes. The broadband-connected Enjoy TV Q.Net, which distributes Discovery- Enjoy TV & Film Broadcasting Corpora- box, with a built-in “smart home” solu- branded channels, and Thaole, which tion (ETBC) bosses obviously think their tion, offers a bundle of international distributes former Scripps channel, Asian anti-piracy message is worth a try, urg- linear television channels, including Food Channel (AFC), and now HGTV. ing rights holders to come on board and China’s CCTV channels, NHK World Ja- The former Scripps home/lifestyle brand help nurture the industry. pan, Arirang Korea and Deutsche Welle, has been testing with limited language Licensed under the MCMC’s CASP(I) along with video-on-demand movies customisation on VTVCab since Novem- Broadcasting License, Enjoy TV pledged and TV shows, smart home system as ber last year – six months after a renewal at the launch in Kuala Lumpur on Friday well as karaoke. row between VTVCab and high-profile (1 March) “to work hand-in-hand with “Enjoy TV aims to provide Malaysians distributor Q.Net that left channels from the government in their efforts to eradi- with a diverse and economical TV plat- HBO Asia, Disney, Fox Networks Group, cate piracy”. form,” Enjoy TV’s co-founder/CEO Yoko Sony Pictures Television Networks Asia, Enjoy TV’s promo price is RM390/ Chou said. Turner and Discovery off air. US$95.60, including a year of free En- In his speech at the opening, deputy Discovery channels are not yet back joy TV subscription. Subscription costs speaker of Malaysia’s Dewan Rakyat, on air, although last month’s Lunar New RM365/US$89.50 a year. Haji Mohd Rashid Hasnon, described Year peace deal put six linear chan- Penetration targets in Malaysia are an the creative content and technology nels – CNN, BBC World News, Bloomb- initial 100,000 households in six months, industry in Malaysia as “fast growing, erg, Fashion TV, Fox Sports and Cartoon rising to 300,000 households by the end influential and high potential sector”. Network – back on the VTVCab/Viettel of year one in March 2020. He also urged the local and inter- dial from 1 February. HGTV is also part of Plans include a roll out in the rest of the national content incumbents to help Viettel’s Next TV’s line up. Asean region “to bring more Malaysian “strengthen and nurture the industry fur- New shows on the March schedule content to the international arena,” the ther by making their presence available include Property Brothers season seven company said during the launch. in all legal platforms such as Enjoy TV”. (premieres 15 April), Flip or Flop Nashville Enjoy TV also plans to co-produce a Enjoy TV, which will be at Filmart in (14 March premiere), Island Life season feature film,I Believe, with China’s CCTV. Hong Kong this month, has not disclosed five (from 15 March). The film will be directed by Yoko Chou. its acqusitions budgets. 4-17 march 2019 page 3. C NTENTASIA 4-17 March 2019 Page 4. StarHub slashes channel pricing by 75% Value shifts to “homehub” & fibre broadband Singapore’s StarHub has slashed video The proposal we saw offered a two-year OUT NOW! channel subscription rates by 75% and fibre contract, including six basic/entry- dropped outdated mandatory extra level linear channel groups for S$13.91/ charges for “HD upsize” as part of its lat- US$10.27 – a steep dip from the previ- est fibre broadband contract bundles, ous cable subscription of S$55.64/US$41 according to subscription proposals seen (S$47.08/US$34.74 plus the not-optional by ContentAsia. S$8.56/US$6.32 “HD upsize”). At the same time as reducing the value The six basic packs are world news, ASIA C NTENT of video content, the breakdown of the education, entertainment, Chinese info- bundled broadband/TV subscription tre- tainment, Chinese entertainment and bles the price of broadband, replacing lifestyle. old cable plans with fibre connectivity. Upsize genre pack pricing remains the 2019 The “HomeHub Plus” offer includes same. This includes the Qiang Dang Yu Channels 1Gbps fibre broadband for S$68.80/ Le Pack at S$28.90/US$21.33 a month US$50.77 a month and six months free, and other HD packs at S$26.75/US$19.74 along with 1GB mobile broadband and a month. a digital voice home line at no extra StarHub’s new pricing is part of the com- charge. pany’s recent #HelloChange campaign, The fibre broadband plan replaces introduced at the end of last year under cable broadband, which costs S$22.90/ chief executive Peter K, who joined in July Asia’s definitive media content and services directory US$16.90 a month. last year. @2_TBL_DIGITAL_COVERS.indd 1 17/02/2019 17:23 Ultimately though, once the free pro- #HelloChange, built around the “smart motional period is over, the total dollar home” concept, also includes 50GB “wor- value of the monthly subscription is much ry-free” data for S$20/US$14.76 a month the same – the big difference being the as an add-on option to existing mobile value shift away from content and to- plans and unlimited weekend data for an wards connectivity. additional S$6/US$4.43. C NTENTASIA ESPN adds ICC clips to cricket site Digital deal puts ICC clips back on ESPNcricinfo 2019 Tech ESPN has acquired digital clip rights for the features in the run up to the tournament. International Cricket Council’s ICC Men’s ESPN said its digital cricket traffic tra- Cricket World Cup 2019 across 10 countries ditionally surged during the ICC Cricket in Southeast Asia as well as Hong Kong for World Cup, with the 2015 tournament 25-year-old cricket website, ESPNcricinfo, bringing growth of 163% across Southeast with additional rights – including Australia Asia and Hong Kong compared to the Asia’s definitive media content and services directory and the U.K. – for flagship site ESPN.com. 2018 annual monthly average for ESP- @2_TBL_DIGITAL_COVERS.indd 2 18/02/2019 11:18 Using data from 2015, when ESPNcricinfo Ncricinfo. Video starts have also grown attracted more than 1.6 million unique over 175% across the region from 2015 users (source: Adobe Omniture) across to 2018. www.contentasia.tv Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, ESPN Star Sports, now owned by Disney as says the 2019 audience is expected to part of last year’s Fox acquisition, has top two million. global broadcast rights for all ICC events Digital clips from each match will fea- until 2023. The ICC carved out rights to contentasia ture highs and lows and reviews. The license in-match digital clips to third par- clips will run as part of a broader content ties from the main broadcast agreement initiative that includes a series of special with Star Sports. C NTENTASIA 4-17 March 2019 Page 5. Jennings exits Gaumont, Dattani tie-up on new series Sony Pictures Television Preti Taneja’s King Lear tale shoots on location in India Asia for a role at MPAA Indian producer Dina Dattani (Brahman U.S. television president, Gene Stein, de- Naman, Mukti Bhavan, The Ashram) is scribed Taneja’s debut novel as “a work collaborating with Narcos producer/dis- of epic scope and depth, providing a tributor Gaumont on a TV adaptation deep insight into today’s India, and the of Preti Taneja’s novel, We That clash of tradition with modernisation, Are Young. as well as nuanced sexual politics”. The story reimagines The series will be shot on loca- Shakespeare’s King Lear tion in India with “an elevated Alistair Jennings and is set in modern-day dramatic storyline with true India, tracking the battle global appeal”, Stein said.