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programming • schedules • C NTENTASIA data • buyers • www.contentasia.tv Issue 125: 1 August-4 September 2011 Summer Break! Asia media unites behind CSR push ContentAsia is taking its regular Summer break in Climate change campaign kicks off at ATF 2011 August. The next issue will be The Asia-Pacific Media Alliance A keynote address will be fol- published on 5 September. for Social Awareness kicks off its lowed by a panel discussion on Wishing you all a very happy media leaders forum series on 7 “the role and responsibility of downtherabbithole Summer! December in Singapore with a media companies in affecting high-level discussion on climate positive social action and be- change and the media in the haviour change on the critical What’s really going on what’sinside region. issues relating to climate change The inaugural Media Leaders facing the region today”. out there... AsiaContentWatch Forum on Climate Change takes Participants will include broad- Oli gives away Ricky’s $$ Bangkok Broadcasting & TV centre stage as the opening cast, publishing, online and ad- on Singapore streets (Channel 7), Thailand session of this year’s regional vertising companies. ContentAsia’s in-depth look at content market, the Asia Televi- Organisers say the aim is to Here’s something to remem- what goes where on channel sion Forum (ATF). show how socially responsible ber: if a taxi driver asks you schedules in Asia The session is co-organised by content and campaigns can what the biggest organ of the page 12 Reed Exhibitions, ContentAsia lead to partnerships that provide human body is, say “skin”. It and regional multichannel me- additional content and revenue could win you a few, maybe My 360º Life dia association, Casbaa. streams. even a few hundred, dollars. Luis Daniel Capriles You would, of course, be riding ContentAsia’s regular 2011 with Singapore’s best – prob- section asks media execs what Disney’s new US$450m India play ably only – bogus cab driver, differences the latest gadgets, Oli Pettigrew. tablets, applications & other Screwala to run UTV as managing director Well-known tech wonders are making to TV host Pet- tigrew is giving their lives and thoughts. Disney is planning to take con- Disney currently holds 50.44% page 9 away thou- trol of its India joint venture, of the company’s paid-up eq- sands of Sony putting one-time partner Ron- uity share capital. The 20.5 mil- Pictures Televi- INproduction nie Screwvala in as managing lion shares have a face value sion Networks Animasia Studio, Malaysia director and delisting UTV Soft- of Rs10 each or Rs204,979,940/ Oli Pettigrew Asia boss Ricky A who’s who of production ware Communications from the US$4.7 million. Ronnie Screwva- Ow’s dollars right now to any- houses across Asia Pacific. Bombay Stock Exchange. la, Zarina Mehta and others one who hails his cab... and has page 11 The Walt Disney Company hold 19.82% (8,053,480 shares) a few correct answers. (Southeast Asia)’s proposal of the paid up equity share The first pan-regional produc- People & Parties involves buying out Screwvala, capital. Food Network Asia’s first Zarina Mehta and other part- The latest proposal has been tion of All3Media format Cash anniversay party ners, as well as public share- on the cards for months. In June Cab, made by activeTV, airs on page 5 holders. this year, UTV denied newspa- AXN later this year. The final amount of the deal per reports of the Disney buyout The custom-built taxi (tip: it’s PLUS is not yet clear, but could top and possible delisting. white, number plate SGB822B, • Shine premieres China’s US$450 million. Disney has of- Disney and UTV are far from and looks completely ordinary Shear Genius fered to pay public sharehold- strangers. In 2006, the U.S. from the outside) has five inside • Celestial seals 1st Africa deal ers Rs1,000/US$22.70 per equity company paid just over US$31 cameras, the craziest flashing • Crime, women, history domi- share. About 30% of the com- million for Screwvala’s kids roof and a glovebox filled with nate Seoul Drama Awards pany is publicly held. more on page 7 new dollar bills... eyes peeled. 01 www.globotvinternational.com 1 August-4 September 2011 02 www.warnertvasia.com s Banerjee joins A+E Networks Asia stuff2know Saugato Banerjee has joined A+E Pacific. He started his career as Shine Int’l premieres Networks as director, strategy an advertising agency executive China’s Shear Genius and business development, Asia in India. reporting to Alan Hodges, A+E Shine International premiered Hodges said the hire was part of Networks’s Asia Pacific manag- A+E’s aggressive expansion in the its first China format – a local ing director. region via both traditional linear version of reality hairstyling Banerjee previously worked for television channels and on digital show Shear Genius – at the ESPN STAR Sports and CNBC Asia media platforms. weekend. The show, which will be known locally as Fa Dong Qi Ji, airs on SMG’s India greenlights Reliance-RTL venture Shanghai New Entertainment Channel and Star Chinese Reality & action channels to launch this year Channel. The format is being India’s foreign investment au- light was given. produced by the Shanghai thorities have given the official No programming details have Media Group (SMG) and nod to the venture between been given yet. sponsored by Vidal Sassoon. European media group RTL The Reliance notice earlier this and India’s Reliance Broadcast year said there was room in the All eyes on Korea’s brothers Network. venture “to exploit the regional... in run up to 6 Aug premiere The proposal was announced and Hindi GEC [general enter- Korea’s TV excitement this in March this year (ContentAsia, tainment channel] space in a week is all about KBS’s new 11 March 2011). larger longer term relationship”. drama, Ojakgyo Brothers, The joint venture, Big Showbiz No details of the Hindi-language which premieres on 6 August. Broadcast Limited, will launch the- plans have been disclosed. The family/romance series matic TV channels in India through Previous announcements have stars Joo Won as Hwang Tae an equally owned company. also said the joint venture would Hee, a policeman and third First up are two English-language have access to FremantleMe- son who falls in love with channels – a reality channel with dia’s library, and mentioned the haughty Baek Ja Eun, international content, mainly shows such as Idols, Got Talent, played by Uee. The show airs from RTL Group’s production arm The X Factor and Family Feud. on Saturdays and Sundays at FremantleMedia, and a channel RTL has been shopping chan- 7.55pm. primarily targeting male viewers nels in Asia for years; the India with action-oriented content. venture is the company’s first DQE pushes 3D film prods Both are scheduled to be up major channel’s announcement Indian animation/production and running within the current in the region. Reliance Broadcast house DQE is developing financial year, Reliance told Network has a similar venture three 3D stereoscopic feature investors when the official green with CBS Studios in the U.S. films for global release from 2013. The three are The Jungle Astro ups Indonesian content Book (2013), The New Adven- tures of Peter Pan (2013-14), and The Phoenix and the Fly- ing Carpet (2014-15). ESS headed for London ESPN Star Sports has started counting down to the Lon- don 2012 Summer Olympic Games, which is will air in 22 countries across Asia. India carriage for Baby TV Indian DTH platform Dish TV has added Fox International’s BabyTV to its HD pack. Rival A cultural performance welcomed Indonesian channels onto Astro’s platform platform Videocon’s D2H costs RM12/US$4 a month. has also picked up the linear Malaysian platform Astro has The new Indo package, offerred service recently. The network upped its focus on content from with Broadway Media, provides already has carriage on Sun neighbouring Indonesia. Two new 24-hour linear chan- exclusive Indonesian TV and film Direct DTH. The latest deals nels, Bintang and Pelangi, content, including music, drama, put BabyTV on three of In- launched on the platform in July entertainment and variety on Bin- dia’s six platforms. as the Indo Pack. The bouquet tang and movies on Pelangi. 1 August-4 September 2011 03 www.contentasiasummit.com 1 August-4 September 2011 04 1 August-4 September 2011 Who was at... Food Network Asia’s 1st anniversary party Scripps Networks International’s Next Food Network Star. In the U.S., season 6 of The Next Food Network Asia celebrated The reality show follows a group Food Network Star finished with its first birthday in the region with of foodie hopefuls competing for its highest rated season ever, a party in Singapore and the pre- the ultimate dream job: his or her with nearly 20 million P2+ tuning miere of top U.S. reality show, The own Food Network show. in to watch the 10-week run. Fashion blogger Cheri Lee; Tan Tong Hai, StarHub Marylou Johnston, Kevin Chorlins, Iris Wee, Germaine Ng Ferguson, Ku De Ta exec chef, Dan Segall; Mary-Ellen Iwata, Scripps Networks International Scripps Networks International StarHub Tony Chow, Off the Fence Greg Ang, Gang TV; Janice Boo, Jarod Lopez, Measat; Hud Woodle, Greg Moyer, Scripps Measat Food Network Asia Networks International Face to Face with Asia’s Buyers & Programmers conTenTASIA 5-6 December 2011, Singapore summit www. contentasiasummit.com 05 1 August-4 September 2011 1st Africa window for Shaw movies Crime, women and stuff2know history dominate Celestial seals Sony Max deal Seoul Drama Awards MBC’s Kim resigns Criminal investigation dramas, a Kim Jae-chul, president of noticeable rise in female leads Korean free-TV broadcaster and the ongoing popularity of MBC, says he is stepping down period dramas are among the to take responsibility for the key trends seen in this year’s failed to push through a merg- entries for the Seoul International er of regional stations – or to Drama Awards, organisers are push the Korean Communica- saying.