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ESPN breaks new TV ground Bahasa football show debuts on NET. free TV

ESPN’s first local-language version of football show ESPN FC premieres on Indo- nesian free-TV channel today (2 June) in a deal between Indonesian media company NET. Televisi Masa Kini and ESPN. The 30-minute show will air daily at 1pm.

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Thai Mono DTT picks up SPT slate Sony Pics volume deal drives new Thai channel

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has sealed a multi-year volume deal with Thai multi- platform entertainment outfit, Mono Group. The television slate – including Crossing Lines and The Black List – will drive the prime-time schedule of new digital terrestrial channel Mono 29. Movies include Grown Ups, Resident Evil: Retribution and Terminator Salvation.

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Discovery takes over Eurosport Asia Promises investment in ‘must-have’ content

Eurosport Asia will benefit from higher reach, scale and investment as a result of Discovery’s controlling interest in Eurosport International, the networks said as the deal closed.

See page 2 for full story contentasia 2-15 JUNE 2014 Page 2. Lose ESPN, NET localise football platform for Indonesia Yourself 1st local ESPN FC for Asia launches 2 June To Find Indonesian company NET. Televisi Masa Kini has tied up with ESPN on a local Ba- Yourself hasa edition of football title, ESPN FC, for free TV in Indonesia. The 30-minute show, produced by NET, launches on 2 June and will air daily at 1pm (western Indonesia time). The Indonesia version of the football news and analysis programme is ESPN FC’s first local-language edition in Asia produced with a local partner. ESPN FC Indonesia The local-language ESPN FC is hosted by Ganindra Bimo and Temmy Rahadi. ESPNFC.com site for Indonesia and Singa- The Indonesia announcement follows pore/Malaysia later this year. ESPN’s news (ContentAsia Insider, 22 May) ESPN’s previous relationship with NET in- that it would launch local editions of the cluded airing the X Games in Indonesia.

Discovery completes Eurosport Int’l acquisition Reach, scale & investment to boost Eurosport Asia

Discovery Communications has complet- Group started in December 2012. ed its acquisition of a controlling interest The company said it would make “long- in Eurosport International, the U.S.-based term strategic decisions and targeted network said late on Friday night. investments to strengthen and expand In an announcement out of the U.S. Eurosport’s sports programming and serv- and France, Discovery said the “addi- ices”. No further details were disclosed. tional reach and scale combined with Discovery also said it would be “working increased investment in ‘must-have’ with Eurosport management and employ- content would create new value for ad- ees on a long-term business plan that fully vertisers, affiliates and audiences across optimises Eurosport’s channels as part of Europe and Asia”. Discovery’s suite of global networks”. Discovery’s interest in Eurosport Interna- The final deal gives Discovery the poten- 100% ﬁ rst run, fresh tional increased from 20% to 51% as part tial to increase its ownership of Eurosport and exclusive original of the larger strategic partnership with TF1 International to 100%. programming

Aus Network fate hangs in the balance

Australia Network’s fate hangs in the ment of Foreign Affairs and Trade was balance as the Australia Broadcasting cancelled in May as part of the latest Corporation (ABC) figures out what to budget, which also cut ABC funding by do with the regional network without the about A$40 million/US$37 million over the A$220-million/US$204 million contract from next four years. the federal government. Additional cuts are expected in the www.multichannelsasia.com The 10-year contract with the Depart- wake of a review into the ABC and SBS.

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SPT’s seals volume deal with Thailand’s Mono TV titles anchor DTT channel prime-time block

from the horse's mouth ContentAsia’s take on industry events in the Year of the Horse

Our eyes are wide open and ears peeled for the release of Pricewater- houseCoopers’ new Global Entertain- ment and Media Outlook 2014-2018 on Wednesday, 4 June. Data and details are under strict em- bargo and PwC’s global leader for entertainment and media, Marcel Fenez, isn’t persuadable on even a smidgeon of a spoiler to the big reveal. What Fenez will say in the run-up to the release is that, in addition to a ton Crossing Lines of country and media/entertainment Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has sealed a Spader. Both titles will anchor the chan- sector data, the report explores “how multi-year volume deal with Thai multi-plat- nel’s prime-time block. organisations are dealing with the form entertainment outfit, Mono Group. U.S. movies include Grown Ups, Resident reality of a digital consumer and not The deal includes exclusive free-TV rights Evil: Retribution and Terminator Salvation just the threats”. Or, at least, how they to library movies and series for Mono’s along with Ghostbusters and The Karate could be. And we’ll bring you all the new digital terrestrial general entertain- Kid. rest in our ContentAsia Insider daily ment channel Mono 29. Mono 29, one of Thailand’s slew of news on Wednesday... Mono 29 will premiere global crime newly licensed DTT channels, launched drama Crossing Lines in Southeast Asia with the tag line, “Motion Non-stop Chan- • The talent hunt of the moment is as part of the slate, which also includes nel”. The channel schedules movies, series Scripps’ Food Hero search in Asia. TV drama The Blacklist, starring James and local news. Auditions launch today and run to 7 July. The idea is to discover two new faces for lifestyle channels Asian Food TV Tokyo rolls out new animation platform Channel and Food Network. There’s Japanese network TV Tokyo has launched mobile devices. Shows include TV Cham- all kinds of related online activity – in- a site offering original made-for-online pion Web, a compilation of champions of cluding voting – around the search at animation content. variety shows broadcast on TV Tokyo from www.foodhero.asia TV Tokyo Play is available online and on 1992 to 2008.

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TVB, StarHub tie up on Star India shatters sports records new on-demand channel Online platform attracts 2.8m fans in a single day

Star India’s online/mobile sports platform, than 55 million visits. Fans watched 450 starsports.com, says its IPL 2014 video million minutes of video on the platform, stream on 28 May attracted the highest which also crossed the one million video digital traffic ever for a sporting event views in a single day for the first time. outside of the Super Bowl in the U.S. starsports.com launched less than a The two playoff matches – Chennai year ago. “Our ambition was to redefine Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians, and Kings the sports experience for the Indian fan,” XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders – gave says Ajit Mohan, Star India EVP and head, the platform a single-day high of 2.8 mil- new media. lion users. Star India COO, Sanjay Gupta, said the Over the course of this year’s six-week “Indian consumer is ready for a big shift in tournament, starsports.com recorded more video consumption”.

DW, Indovision pick Indonesia’s best journalist Copyright: Television Broadcasts Ltd Broadcasts Copyright: Television Kate Tsui in The Ultimate Addiction German broadcaster Deutsche Welle Brent Goff, DW’s award- Singapore pay-TV platform StarHub has (DW) and Indonesia’s platform Indovi- winning news anchor tied up with Hong Kong’s dominant free- sion will announce the two winners of this and host of current af- TV broadcaster to launch the country’s year’s Journalist Competition on 5 June. fairs talk show Agenda, first subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) Two winners of the four-month hunt for will be conducting a channel dedicated to TVB drama. Indonesia’s best and brightest journalists workshop for the final- The new channel, TVB First, launches will travel to Bonn to take part in this year’s ists titled, “Produce once, on 2 June and costs S$19.90/US$16 a 2014 DW Global Media Forum. publish everywhere”. month. TVB dramas are being offered in original Cartoon Net’s Finn and Jake tour Taiwan Cantonese at the same time as they premiere in Hong Kong. A Mandarin sound- Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time char- Hong Arts Management. Six themed track will also be offered. The channel, acters, Finn and Jake, have opened a zones have been set up, all filled with available on traditional set-top box and three-and-a-half-month merchandise lines. StarHub TV Anywhere, will also offer past on-ground gig in Taipei. The exhibition moves on to Taichung episodes on demand. The exhibition, which and Kaohsiung, and possibly other centres TVB First launches with The Ultimate runs to 14 Septem- in the region, after Taipei. Addition, starring Bosco Wong, Elena ber at the National Adventure Times is the number one Kong and Kate Tsui. Two new titles will Ta i w a n S c i e n c e show on cable in its timeslot for kids 4-14, be offered every month, including Education Center, is according to Nielsen Taiwan data sup- Ghost Dragon of Cold Mountain and a licensing deal with plied by Cartoon Network. Season six Black Heart White Soul. local partner Kuang premieres later this year.

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Prime-time bigamy on Turner reworks CNN live Philippines’ GMA Re-org expands news gathering in Asia, trims elsewhere GMA’s puts bigamy in prime time from 3 June in new drama Ang CNN is increasing its live news program- NewsCenter – are shifting out of Hong Dalawant Mrs Real. The ming by four hours a day to 20.5 hours Kong into Atlanta, which moves 2.5 hours series, which premieres at out of its three centres – Atlanta, Hong of local production out of the region. 9.15pm, stars Dingdong Kong and London – in a reorg that adds News Stream will continue to be pro- Dantes as Anthony Real, headcount in some divisions in Asia and duced out of Hong Kong, and will deliver a man who marries two axes other roles. five hours of live news a week hosted by women and claims to love Senior international correspondent, Ivan Kristie Lu Stout. Features such as Talk Asia them equally. GMA says the Watson, shifts from Turkey to Hong Kong this and On China will also continue to be series is “more than just another summer as part of the changes. Hong Kong produced out of Hong Kong. drama on infidelity”, but aims to show the will also get a new senior editorial post. The Turner-owned news network has not real consequences and changes in the The news network says that while the commented on industry talk that about life of the betrayer and the betrayed – re-org pulls some production back into 50 jobs will go, but said it anticipated the “and there are no victors”. The show airs Atlanta from Asia, the restructure will net impact of current personnel in Hong on international channel GMA Pinoy TV also put more Asia coverage on global Kong to be in the single digits. Globally, the day after the domestic release. screens, including in the U.S. the international service will add about Two shows – CNN Newsroom and CNN 24 jobs. Srinivas to head PCCW Hong Kong’s PCCW 1st Kidscreen East heads for Qingdao in July has tapped Infosys Group boss BG Srinivas Inaugural event boosts East-West kids entertainment links as group managing di- The first Kisdscreen East event takes place manager of CCTV Animation; and Sean rector from 14 July this year. in Qingdao, China, on 22-24 July. Nickelo- Chu, vice president of the Ciwen Media Srinivas takes over from George Chan, deon’s senior vice president of program- Group’s Ciwen Kids. who retires on 7 July. ming and acquisitions, Jules Borkent, will Topics over the three days include glo- deliver the opening keynote. bal co-production, turning TV into toys, Strike wracks KBS Organisers Kidscreen and China Anima- writing for pre-schoolers, China’s consum- Korean broadcaster KBS ended May in tion Association (CAA) say the new event er products market, making the most of the midst of a full-scale strike over inter- is “designed to bring kids entertainment mobile content and crafting characters ference in news broadcasting. Journal- executives from the East and West togeth- that connect around the world. ists are demanding the resignation of er for three days of professional network- Kidscreen East’s live pitch competition KBS president Gil Hwan-young, accusing ing and collaborative learning”. will showcase three Asian pre-school him of pro-government bias and push- Speakers at the inaugural event include projects in development, while the invest- ing the agenda of the Park Geun-hye Joe Aguilar, Oriental DreamWorks’ chief ment track will connect the biggest kids administration. The KBS board will vote creative officer and head of production, content investors from East and West in a on Gil’s future on 5 June. features and television; Zhijun Cai, general series of strategy talks.

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Crack Them Up China

Comedy formats may be on the rise in China in the wake of regulations that limit singing shows and the success of a local version of Ukrainian format, Crack Them Up. Crack Them Up China ended its run on 5 May on Chinese station Jiangxi with an average TV rating of 0.76 and average share of 3.15. The format, created by Studio Kvartal 95 and distributed by Eccho Rights, challenges regular people to make two comedians laugh. Winners walk away with cash prizes. The series debuted at number three Crack Them Up China crews for the time slot. The first episode (17 Feb, Monday, 10pm-11pm) scored 2.87 market five. The aim was to make the show more international format and the unusual share, equating to around 20 million view- relevant and to prevent repetition. While circular set was a challenge to build,” ers. The show was Jiangxi ‘s most popular jokes take centre stage in the Ukrainian Pudney says. since 2012. original, the Chinese version includes par- The local commission came in the wake The first three episodes ranked third ticipants trying to make the comedians of the crackdown on reality singing con- among satellite shows in both ratings and laugh. “Anything goes as long as it makes tests in China. The new rules allow stations share (CSM48 TV Ratings Report – exclud- the judges crack up,” says Eccho Rights’ to air only one new music talent show ing China Central Television – based on Asia-Pacific head, Gary Pudney. every three months and stations have data gathered in 48 cities in China). To comply with regulations, the prize to increase “morality-building” (such as Episodes four and five climbed to money was limited to RMB10,000/US$1,603 documentaries and news) and educa- number one, outstripping China’s top max for each contestant, Pudney adds. tional shows. Stations also have to ensure two satellite channels – Hunan and Zhe- The challenge was mainly working that the “morality-building” content fills at jiang. They improved Jiangxi’s share of through the tight deadlines. least 30% of their overall schedule. the timeslot by 46.7% for episode four “With just one and a half months be- “The new restriction on singing formats and 59.6% for episode five. The remain- tween securing the rights to the format in China gives other genres the chance ing episodes consistently ranked second/ and the first recording, the crew was up to blossom and comedy-based shows are third among satellite shows at the timeslot against the clock. This timeframe meant in the ideal position to take advantage (Mondays, 10pm-11pm). that the channel faced challenges of this opportunity,” says Xichen Liu, 3C The Chinese version, produced by 3C Me- promoting the show and recruiting par- Media’s CEO. dia, had three rounds instead of the original ticipants. It was also the company’s first

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PlatformCrunchyroll

Nippon Television Network, MBC and KBS. Crunchyroll also offers eCommerce, news, community features and a free/premium digital manga offering. Pricing Free streaming and premium from US$6.95 a month. Premium subscription offers same-day access for simulcast titles, up to 1080p quality and no advertisements Priority for 2014 “To continue to expand Crunchyroll’s content offering and global reach. We recently announced our partnership with Fuji TV to offer 21 Japanese drama titles. We also launched kdrama. com, a Korean drama streaming site currently available in the U.S. and Canada.” New titles About 50 simulcast titles, mostly updated every week. What rights do you buy? All rights Three most-watched shows Naruto Ship- In a regular section looking at up-and-coming platforms in Asia, puden, Attack on Titan and Bleach Malena Amzah speaks to Crunchyroll’s CEO/co-founder Kun Gao. What would you like to add? “We are al- ready simulcasting more than 90% of our What is Crunchyroll? A video streaming international tastes.” targeted anime series broadcast in Japan. platform focusing on Japanese anime and Launched Officially launched in 2009. Based We hope to bring more Japanese drama Asian content. Available on the Crunchy- in San Francisco, with offices in L.A. and To- titles and more catalogue anime titles… roll website, iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle, kyo. Has more than 70 staffers in the U.S. In-house production is definitely something Playstation3, Playstation4, PlaystationVita, How it started “Originally it started as a on our mind and we hope to bring original Xbox 360, AppleTV, Roku, internet-enabled community video platform. The commu- content to our users in the near future. TVs and set-top boxes. nity contributed a lot of content that was Crunchyroll currently has user-generated The aim “Our goal is to focus on providing not accessible outside of the content’s content under ‘pop’ section.” all Japanese anime shows within minutes country of origin. We realised that there Social media Facebook and Twitter, man- of original TV broadcast in high quality was a huge demand for watching anime aged by a dedicated social media team and professionally subtitled.” right after original Japanese TV broadcast, The biggest challenge “Delivering the Target users Anime and Asian drama fans and went to Japan to meet with all the same level of services to users in interna- around the world. Has more than 300,000 broadcasters and anime creators. They tional regions.” premium global subscribers were extremely supportive of our plat- The best thing that has happened to the Who’s in charge Kun Gao, co-founder form, and gave us licences to stream the OTT industry in Asia so far this year is... and CEO; Brady McCollum, COO; Vincent content. They saw Crunchyroll as a way “The increasing support of legal streaming Shortino, EVP, Crunchyroll Japan Channels to reach their international audiences in a among users.” Geo-blocked Some content is geo- way that was not possible before.” The best thing that’s happened to Crunchy- blocked but many of the titles are avail- The offering Delivers more than 25,000 roll in Asia this year... “We are excited to able worldwide. episodes and 15,000 hours of officially exclusively bring Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure to Why did you call it Crunchyroll? “Crunchy- licensed content from Asian media pro- audiences worldwide outside Japan.” roll is a California roll that has been bread- ducers directly to viewers translated in What do you think will have the most im- ed with Panko and deep fried. When you multiple languages within minutes of TV pact on the OTT industry in Asia in 2014? bite into it, there is a ‘crunch’. We like to broadcast. Most of the offering is anime. “The proliferation of smartphones and think that we are taking sushi, which is very The rest is Korean drama and live-action. tablets will indeed facilitate the growth traditionally Japanese, and adapting it for Content partners include TV Tokyo, Aniplex, of OTT industry in Asia.” contentasia 2-15 JUNE 2014 Page 11.

Who was at... the Singapore leg of the River Monsters live in Asia tour

Discovery toured biologist and extreme angler, Jeremy Wade, around Asia in May to promote the new season of Wade’s show River Monsters. In Singapore, Wade shared filming experiences such as using his neck to bait a blood sucking Lamprey and tips on how to catch a monster fish. River Monsters season six premieres on Discovery Channel on 8 July at 9pm in Singapore, 8pm in Thailand/Indonesia Jacqueline Tok, Discovery Networks Asia Pacific; Isabel Cheng, Linda Chew, Shaiful Rizal, and 10pm in Malaysia. Kay Yang, Yasmin Basir, Wanru Wong, Wildlife Wildlife Reserves Singapore Reserves Singapore

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