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Jakrajutatip takes top woman in media award ’s JKN Global Media CEO, Anne Jakrajutatip, is ContentAsia’s Media Woman of the Year 2019

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A+E Networks unites North, Too early to talk about other Anne Jakkraphong Jakrajutatip, JKN Global Media changes, new boss says The CEO of Thai-listed JKN Global Media, change in November 2017. A+E Networks Asia moves into the second Anne Jakkraphong Jakrajutatip, has been The company today has four subsidiaries half of 2019 with new bosses and a new chosen as this year’s Asia Media Woman – JKN Channel Co., Ltd, which produces structure that unites North and Southeast of the Year. the talk series, Anne Show, and a range Asia under newly appointed Asia manag- Now in its seventh year, the ContentAsia of other content as well as organising ing director Saugato “Shoggy” Banerjee award recognises the outstanding events; JKN IMC, which focuses on adver- reporting to newly appointed group achievements of female leaders in the tising sales and integrated marketing; JKN managing director for international, Pat- media industry across Asia. The award will Knowledge, which provides leadership rick Vien. be celebrated during the ContentAsia and training; and JKN News, which has Banerjee, who joined A+E Networks Summit in on 28-29 August. a 10-year licence to produce a CNBC- in 2011, was most recently managing ContentAsia’s editorial director, Janine branded block for Thailand. director of the North Asia (Korea, Japan, Stein, said Jakrajutatip was selected for her In 2018, Jakrajutatip was instrumental in China), based in Seoul. The new structure commitment to expanding the footprint founding the non-profit Lift (Life Inspired also makes Banerjee the point person for of Thai content as well as for her proven for Transsexuals) Foundation, an associa- India, where A+E has a 49% stake in a joint success in opening up new markets in Thai- tion to promote acceptance and inclu- venture with TV18. India was previously land for a range of Asian content. sivity for transsexuals in Thailand. Lift’s key overseen directly out of the U.S. In addition, Jakrajutatip leverages her vision is gender equality, regardless of the Former Southeast Asia MD, Leena Sin- position as a media leader to promote gender with which people are born. garajah, has left as part of the changes. gender diversity issues – including this Past recipients of the award are Ellana So far, the company says it’s too early month’s launch of the Lift Foundation – Lee (CNN International); Jane Jimenez- to talk about adjustments (if any) to the making her even more of an inspiration, Basas ( TV, ); Janice Lee U.S.-based network’s operations in Asia Stein said. (PCCW Media); Tham Loke Kheng (Medi- beyond the geographic and manage- Jakrajutatip founded JKN Global Media acorp/Now TV/StarHub); Charo Santos- ment restructure unveiled on Friday (Con- as an independent company five years Concio (ABS-CBN, Philippines); Rohana tentAsia Insider, Friday, 19 July). ago and listed on the Stock Ex- Rozhan ( ). ASIA summitthe C NTENT 28-29 August 2019 ParkRoyal on Pickering, Singapore ContentSPOT players in AsiaON are marking their spots in a radically changing universe. This year’s ContentAsia Summit is all about the humongous, super-charged effort to tell a whole new story. #goalsAF

The Sacred Riana Gaurav Banerjee Ariya Banomyong Anne Jakkraphong Sameer Nair Chris Oliver Taylor Jakrajutatip

Fotini Paraskakis Louise Pedersen Johan Buse Deepak Dhar Sabrina Duguet Mark Francis

Varavuth Jentanakul Vanita Kohli-Khandekar Marianne Lee Leslie Lee Redgie Magno Vuthithorn Milintachinda “Woody” Keynotes and speakers are listed in alphabetical order by family name

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tvN picks up express rights iflix adds US$50m funding ahead of IPO to new Korean fantasy New round brings total raised to almost US$350 million Korean channel tvN Asia has confirmed express rights to new fantasy drama, Streaming platform iflix went public on in April/May with ’s MNC (stra- When The Devil Calls Your Name. The Monday with a combined group of exist- tegic partnership involving 10,000 hours series premieres on the regional chan- ing and new backers that has poured of content), Japan’s Yoshimoto Kogyo nel on 1 August and will air Thursday and another US$50 million into the business, (strategic investment/joint venture) and Friday nights in Singapore, Malaysia and bringing the total amount raised since South Korea’s JTBC (strategic investment 2015 to about US$350 million. involving content supply). The bulk of the new investment comes iflix, which has been offering rights hold- from asset manager, Fidelity International, ers/distributors debt for equity swaps, did in what looks like bridging funding ahead not attach dollar amounts to the deals of a hoped-for IPO, and also includes con- with MNC, Yoshimoto Kogyo and JTBC. tinued investment by founders Catcha As iflix continues its migration from SVOD Group, and strategic shareholders Hearst, to AVOD, it says its active userbase has and EMC. swelled from nine million at the end of When The Devil Calls Your Name iflix says the new money will “drive 2018 to 17 million in May. Indonesia. The series stars Jung Kyung-ho growth ahead of a prospective IPO”. The company’s last (and biggest) fund- as Harib, a songwriter who sells his soul to The time frame of the IPO has not been ing round was in August 2017, when it the devil in exchange for 10 years of youth confirmed. iflix cited regulatory restrictions raised US$133 million from a group led and success. As the deal nears its end, he and said prospective IPO rules prevented by Hearst. begins to bargain for an extension and disclosure. This closely followed the US$90 million discovers the harsh truth behind the Monday’s US$50-million announce- March 2017 round led by Liberty Global Faustian pact. ment bundled agreements announced and the Zain Group.

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Philippines’ Workpoint, Facebook debut new series ABS-CBN quiet on 19 August premiere for The Social Icon Thailand licence renewal March 2020 expiry looms, Duterte threats hang heavy

Philippines’ broadcaster ABS-CBN has issued no public comment on the looming renewal of its broadcast franchise, which expires in March 2020. A 25-year re- newal application is pending. The media environment in the Philippines has grown increasingly hostile with repeated criticism by Philippines’ president Rodrigo Duterte against media outfits – including ABS-CBN – he sees as critical of his administration. Opinion is split on whether Duterte will carry out his threat of not renewing the franchise, particularly if Congress ap- proves the application.

Korea’s KCC boss steps down Lee Hyo-seong calls for a The Social Icon Thailand unified regulatory body, says Facebook’s newest Asia series, The Social Masked Singer Thailand. current split is ineffective Icon Thailand, premieres on 19 August in The Workpoint series with Facebook a deal with local production powerhouse follows Facebook Watch’s first commis- The chairman of Korea’s Communications Workpoint. sioned reality original in Asia – a Thai ver- Commission (KCC), Lee Hyo-seong, has The Social Icon Thailand is a compe- sion of MTV reality show, The Real World: stepped down after two years ahead of tition show that searches for the best Bangkok – which premiered on 13 June. the Moon Jae-in government’s expected video creators across a broad swathe of The series’ Facebook page had just cabinet shuffle. Lee, appointed in August genres, including eating and product re- over 30,500 followers on 22 July. 2017 for a three-year term, had been views, for Facebook. The 12-episode show in Thai with Thai and expected to talk about the KCC’s annual The winner receives a cash prize of THB1 English subtitles runs until 29 August. New results during a media briefing in Seoul. He million/US$32,000. episodes release at 9am on Thursdays. said his decision was in support of the new The show, which Workpoint opened for Facebook Watch commissioned The cabinet and reform efforts. He also came entries in April this year, will air on Mon- Real World: Bangkok from the Banijay- out in support of a unified entity to over- days on Workpoint Group’s digital terres- owned Bunim/Murray Productions in the see the country’s communications and trial channel, Workpoint Channel, with a U.S., as part of a reboot trio for Thailand, broadcasting environment, including pay- stream on Facebook. and Atlanta. TV, terrestrial broadcasting and telecom- Contestants were asked to send in short The Mexican version, El Mundo Real: munications. The role is currently split with videos of between three and five min- México, has 150,000 followers so far. The the Ministry of Science and ICT, a situation utes. Entries for the competition closed Real World: Atlanta has 161,000 followers. Lee described as illogical and inefficient. on 10 May. Bunim/Murray worked with the Sin- The roles were split in 2013 under the previ- Earlier this month, Workpoint said com- gapore-based MTV Asia and Bangkok- ous government. While not disagreeing bined online/catchup/Facebook views based fixer Greenlight Films on the Thai with him, government spokesmen were for the week of 17-23 June had topped series. quoted in local news outlets as saying the 219.6 million views from a total of 21.2 The Real World: Bangkok has no broad- issue needs to be carefully considered. million viewers. The top show was The cast partner. C NTENTASIA 22 July-8 September 2019 Page 5.

iflix, iwonder August debut for Kohli’s look at add 150 hours to New book tracks Rupert Murdoch’s Indian adventure streaming slates Strong factual boost in DRG’s new Asia syndication deals

Author Vanita Kohli-Khandekar For the past 25 years or so, a few char- prize money for a new TV quiz show “pa- acters have loomed large over India’s thetic” and greenlit the offer of a crore television environment: Richard Li, Ru- (about US$200,000 at the time). The birth pert Murdoch, Uday Shankar, Sameer of Kaun Banega Crorepati was a defining Nair, Ronnie Screwvala, Ajay Vidyasagar, moment that changed the nature of the

Dead Lucky among many many others. Not so many TV game in India, Kohli-Khandekar says. women, but there were, over the years, The 200-page book ends with inevitable Swedish content company DRG has Sunita Rajan, Myleeta Aga, Megha Tata, questions about Star’s future under Dis- signed volume deals with Asian stream- Ekta Kapoor... All gather in the pages of ney, a company it has always dwarfed ing platforms iflix and iWonder. iflix -ac author Vanita Kohli-Khandekar’s new in India, plus an “interesting bunch of quired rights to almost 50 hours, including book, telling “the amazing story of Rupert variables” coming into play, including a drama series Dead Lucky; two series of Murdoch’s India adventure”. The Making buyer for a large stake in Star rival Zee. Criminal Justice; comedy series The De- of Star India (Penguin Random House) Kohli-Khandekar interviewed more than livery Man; documentary Never Ending comes out in the first week of August. 100 people, and drew on more than two Orgasm; and a slate of hour-long royal Kohli-Khandekar, who has tracked In- decades of reporting, during which she specials such Meghan Markle: How to dia’s video industry since it was Doordar- wrote and updated four editions of her be Royal, Kate’s Wardrobe Secrets and shan plus some cables thrown over trees/ earlier book, The Indian Media Business. The Queen’s Worst Year. New factual telephone poles, spent about 18 months “This book is about more than Star,” she platform, iWonder, bought almost 100 researching and writing the book, which says, adding: “It is the story of Indian broad- hours of newer titles such as Dynasties: opens with a scene from a fractious casting with Star playing the main role”. The Families that Changed the World, meeting in early 2000 in the Andheri East Titans of the 20th Century, North Korea district of Mumbai, seven years after Mur- Vanita Kohli-Khandekar will talk about – Voices from the Secret State, Private doch bought Star from Hong Kong’s Rich- her book at a book signing during the View: The Art of Collecting and Man- ard Li. Murdoch, after banging the table ContentAsia Summit on 28-29 August. son’s Bloodline. about poor ratings, called the proposed www.contentasiasummit.com

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July has been a mega-month for Thai production house Zense Entertainment, which rocked ratings for the Thai version of Nippon TV/Red Arrow’s co-developed comedy Former governor plans TV show game show, Block Out Thailand, on Channel 7, and fol- Indonesian politician and former governor of Jakarta, Basuki “Ahok” lowed that up with the debut of the first version of its home- Tjahaja Purnama, is planning a new TV show, possibly for Indonesian grown format, Singer Auction, on national entertainment -TV station MetroTV. In a post on his YouTube channel Panggil channel VTV3 in Vietnam. Saya BTP at the weekend, Purnama said the programme would in- The premiere of Block Out Thailand on 3 July topped its clude a stand-up comedy segment featuring, for instance, stories timeslot on Thai free-TV service Channel 7, attracting a 1.63 from his time in custody. He was jailed for about 18 months in 2017 TVR (source: Nielsen Thailand, 4+) and beating the perfor- following a blasphemy conviction likely to have ended his political mance of Singing with Family, the talent show that previ- ambitions. “In detention, there’s a funny story every day,” he said. ously filled the slot.Block Out Thailand is stripped Mondays Another segment of the TV show would feature news, he added. to Fridays at 5.15pm. The first version ofSinger Auction, co-developed with NBCUniversal International Formats, premiered on Vietnam- Prime Video Japan intros The Bachelorette ese national entertainment channel VTV3 on 19 July, boost- Wannabe participants in Japan’s first version of U.S. dating reality ing the production house’s regional ambitions and interna- show, The Bachelorette, have until 19 August to submit their appli- tional hopes for home-grown formats. Rights to the prime- cations. Amazon Prime Video’s spin-off of The Bachelor Japan has time show were sold to local production house Mega GS 32-year-old model and former Miss Universe Japan finalist Moeko Fu- Communication and Entertainment earlier this year. kuda in the central role choosing her mate from 20 single men. Ama- The 13x75 mins Vietnamese version airs in a weekly prime- zon announced the Japanese version of The Bachelorette in Febru- time slot at 9pm, giving unknown vocalists the opportunity ary this year. The delivery date has not been announced. to showcase their talent, pitting five celebrities against each other in a quest to pick up new talent. Block Out involves two teams of four players competing Analogue shut down in Langkawi against each other with games that combine trivia, strat- Malaysia pulled the plug on analogue services on Langkawi at the egy and chance. Each team plays on a separate wall. weekend, making the island the first community in Malaysia to be Incorrect answers result in blocks popping out of the wall. all-digital. Analogue transmitters were replaced by MYTV Broad- The more pop-outs there are, the less space there is for casting’s myFreeview Digital TV transmitters, according to news out- contestants to stand. let Bernama. C NTENTASIA 22 July-8 September 2019 Page 7.

Thai authorities back Scream Asia digs in on horror mission broader measurement Horror remains a priority in Asia, mm2 says

Thai media regulators are backing a more comprehensive viewership measurement platform that includes traditional broadcasting as well as newer digital/streaming services. Indus- try discussions are under way under the auspices of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), which is expected to unveil its proposed platform this week, accord- ing to local daily The Bangkok Post.

Tencent, MangoTV pick up Hana’s Helpline

mm2’s long links to horror continue this week with the opening of Thai horror filmCurses

Singapore-based regional horror fest, theatrical release, Curses, which opens Scream Asia, has layered a short film on 25 July. contest onto the event this year hoping The top three entries in the Scream to draw budding horror producers into competition will be picked by Singapore Hana’s Helpline the region’s filmmaking fold. filmmaker Eric Khoo, South Korea’s Thom- The driver is talent development with a as Nam and Taiwan’s Giddens Ko (Mon U.K.-based Hoho Entertainment has sold view to boosting the production or hor- Mon Mon Monster, The Apple of My Eye), stop-motion pre-school series, Hana’s ror content, says competition organiser who will also helm this year’s masterclass. Helpline, to mainland Chinese streaming Gary Goh, Singapore GM of mm2 Enter- mm2 Entertainment will back one of the platforms Tencent and MangoTV. The tainment-owned DoubleM. three finalists. rights deal for the 52-part series about mm2 has a long history of horror, includ- Results will be announced at the end a duck agony aunty was brokered by The Media Pioneers. Tencent acquired ing titles such as Kimo Stamboel’s Indo- of October as part of an event that in- the show in a five-year deal for non- nesian horror film Dreadout (2018), Gil- cludes the awards ceremony, screenings exclusive VOD and exclusive TVOD bert Chan’s 23:59 (2011), about a secret and the masterclass. rights to the Mandarin version. Man- haunting a jungle army camp, and the Horror remains a priority for Asia as goTV’s five-year deal is for non-exclusive sequel 2359: The Haunting Hour (2018) much for an abundance of supernatural SVOD. Hana’s Helpline was produced with Clover Films and Gorylah Pictures. myths and legends and its ability to trav- by Wales-based Calon TV for S4C and The company also distributes horror ti- el, as for its more manageable budgets, . tles from across the region, including Thai Goh says. C NTENTASIA 22 July-8 September 2019 Page 8.

Regular everyday Singapore stars in HBO’s new drama “Invisible Stories is an expression of who I am,” Singapore filmmaker Ler Jiyuan says

Singaporeans love to point fingers at Yi- “I really thought they only did high-con- they could have been your lover even.” shun, one of the country’s famed pub- cept stuff, like Half Worlds,” he says. “I’m The multi-national cast includes actors lic housing estates, with some 200,000 just a storyteller. I don’t think about what from Singapore, Bangladesh, Indonesia residents and more than its fair share of the market wants or what HBO’s audience Malaysia and Thailand. Like the even headlines. A spate of cat killings. A drug is. I just think about doing good stories. split between men/women, diversity is lord. A triple murder. Loan sharks. Rats. That’s all”. a by-product of stories he found most For filmmaker, writer and TV showrunner Invisible Stories premieres later this year interesting rather than a goal. “The start- Ler Jiyuan, Yishun is both home and inspi- and is the 38-year-old Ler’s most ambitious ing point for this series is stories, and not ration. But not because of its dramatic work as a producer. The series showcases racial representation or anything like potential inherent in extreme characters the “lives of people you see everyday but that,” Ler says. or headline situations. never really think about who they are, Like 80% of Singapore, Ler grew up in His latest work, Invisible Stories for HBO what their stories are. That’s the starting the 1990s in a three-room apartment on Asia, is not sensational or dramatic, he point. Some of the stories are quite dark, a Housing Development Board (HDB) says. The six-episode series, set in a fiction- I wouldn’t say all, they’re just about more estate. His father was a taxi driver. “My al housing estate, tells everyday stories of marginalised alienated people,” he says. childhood was really normal, very com- ordinary people living their lives, working The decision to focus on migrant work- mon,” he says, describing himself as “just things out, sometimes not getting it right, ers in two of the episodes is a “real re- a really normal dude” who grew up in a but usually carrying on somehow. flection of Singapore,” Ler says. But the three-room flat and is now moving with Ler is not trying to shed light into the stories are “extremely difficult to write... his wife into his own three-room flat.” darkest corners. He also doesn’t appear when you write a migrant episode, you He became a filmmaker after he failed to hang any value on telling poignant un- tend to split into the very dramatic ‘run his A levels (“I suck at science”), worked told stories. And he’s not swayed in any in with the law’ kind of story or the evil through an existential crisis, was in a way by HBO’s funding arrangement with employer story. I was trying to avoid all of band, and realised he would never be a the Singapore government’s Infocomms those things because it separates people rock star. His other passion was film. Media Development Authority (IMDA). even more. I would like to paint them as Invisible Stories is “the culmination of Invisible Stories was born as a short film everyday people, who have friends, who what I have always worked and stand about a single mother struggling to cope have passions, who have dreams, who for, of everything right now in my life,” Ler with her autistic teenage son. Ler’s produc- fall in love. If they were not born in an- says. “My films are always about HDB life, er suggested he pitch it to HBO Asia, which other country, if they were born in Singa- normal life.... it’s the world that I came he did with few expectations. pore, they could have been your friends, from. It’s an expression of who I am.” Mark your calendar for TOKYO

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Singapore

In numbers Population...... 5.639 million Households...... 1.325 million Avg. household size...... 3.24 TV households...... 1.29 million TV penetration...... 98% Pay TV households...... 775,000* TV transmission (weekly)...... 1,009 hours Broadband internet subs...... 12.152 million Wireless bb subs...... 10.650 million Mobile phone subs...... 8.621 million Mobile phone population rate...... 148.8%

Source: Companies, Department of Statistics Singapore (population, households, TV transmission, internet), Infocomm Media Development Authority (mobile, TV penetration) * Combined StarHub/ HH (Mar 2019)

Free TV

Mediacorp Singapore’s sole terrestrial broadcaster, Fried Rice Paradise - The Drama Series, funded by a mix of commercial revenues and government backing, StarHub global/regional standalone streaming and with a mixed public service/ Launched in 2000, StarHub TV reworked services, including India’s ALTBalaji, commercial remit, operates seven TV its offering this year, simplifying video U.S.-based CuriosityStream, Taiwanese channels, 11 radio stations and video packages into seven entertainment LGBTQ service GagaOOLala, HBO Go, streaming platform Toggle, which offers passes/about 150 channels accessible Amazon Prime Video, Viu, Yupp TV... a subscription tier along with access with a single S$29.90/US$22 a month all of which offer direct-to-consumer to premium services (see streaming price point (or a S$19.90/US$14.60 interfaces and some of which are section). sampler pack), and four platforms available as part of telco or, in the case – fibre, mobile (StarHub Go, with of Mediacorp’s Toggle, other bundles. Subscription TV packages from S$4.90/US$3.60 a month), The platforms are not (ior not majorly) portal and streaming box. StarHub has customised for Singapore. Apple’s iTunes Singtel TV 394,000 pay-TV households, 1.44 million still doesn’t offer television titles; there’s Singapore telco Singtel launched digital post-paid mobile customers and 495,000 hope (although no info as of 17 July) pay-TV platform Singtel TV (formerly residential broadband customers with Apple TV+, which is supposed to be Mio TV) in July 2007. The IPTV service (March 2019). “coming later this year”, according to offers more than 150 channels to its website. Despite programmers’ efforts 381,000 residential subscribers (March and in addition to the trade in streaming 2019) along with on-demand, mobile Streaming/OTT boxes, Singapore also has a healthy and streaming options. These include VPN market that opens up access to in-house platforms Singtel TV Go and Along with a vibrant trade in streaming everything everywhere. standalone aggregator app, Cast (see boxes that offer illicit access to a streaming). Singtel TV set-top boxes world of content (and, no, while we Cast provide access to indie streaming applaud the little gains made to fight Singtel launched standalone app, Cast, services, Singtel-owned Hooq and piracy, we don’t think enough is being in July 2016, aggregating on-demand . Singtel’s set-top-box-based done and think the government/ and linear channels as well as regional channels cost from S$21.90/US$15.90 to authorities should step up in a bigger streaming services such as Viu Premium, S$77.90/US$56.60 a month. way), Singapore has a robust range of Hooq, HBO Go and Yupp TV. Monthly

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subscriptions start from S$4.90/US$3.60. catch-up) via mobile, as well as catch- Take-up/engagement details are not Singtel had 118,000 OTT subscribers up/on-demand content. Singtel had available. (including Singtel TV Go) at the end of 118,000 OTT subscribers (including Cast) March 2019. at the end of March 2019. TVB Anywhere SG Hong Kong’s Television Broadcasts CatchPlay on Demand SPH Razor/RazorTV Limited (TVB) launched mobile streaming Taiwan's Catchplay launched on Launched in Aug 2008 by Singapore TVB Anywhere SG in Oct 2018, offering StarHub in June 2016, and direct-to- Press Holdings (SPH) and managed classic and new TVB programmes. The consumer (DTC) in Aug 2016. The service by SPH Digital, SPH Razor (RazorTV) is geo-blocked service costs SG$5.98/ was dropped from StarHub at the end of a free access, interactive webcast US$4.36 a month for the Premium May this year and is now available DTC service offering local news/trends, Zone pack. Select content is offered only. Free tier offers 10 titles a month plus entertainment, lifestyle and sports. for free. TVB Anywhere SG is available the option of single rentals for between standalone as well as via telco M1 and S$3.50/US$2.55 and S$9.90/US$7.20 for Spuul broadband provider MyRepublic. the Movie Lovers basic plan. Founded in 2010 and launched in April 2012, Singapore-based Spuul is a Viu Dimsum video streaming subscription service Viu is Hong Kong telco PCCW’s regional Dimsum launched on StarHub in April targeting South Asia and the South Asian mobile streaming play. The free Viu 2018, as part of StarHub Go monthly diaspora. The service offers full-length app launched in Singapore in Jan plan at S$9.90/US$7.20 with no contract movies in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, 2016, and has a distribution partnership and one month free usage. Direct costs Telugu and Punjabi, among other Indian with telco Singtel. Viu’s biggest selling S$6.90/US$5 a month. regional languages. The premium plan point is an enviable library of mobile costs S$4.99/US$3.69 a month or S$49.99/ rights for Korean drama, some of which Fox+ US$36.75 a year, with a free one-month are offered within four hours of their Fox+ launched in Singapore in May 2017. trial. domestic debut, along with titles from Subscription costs start from S$12.90/ Japan, mainland China and Taiwan​​. US$9.35 a month for billing with Singtel TV StarHub Go The platform also carries an increasing Launched in Aug 2015, StarHub Go is a or standard S$19.90/US$14.40 a month. number of Viu original productions. standalone streaming service offering a Viu’s premium subscription tier is offered Hooq selection of StarHub TV content across directly (S$5.98/US$4.40 a month) or via Hooq lauched in Singapore in Nov 2016 multiple devices. Pricing ranges from Singtel’s Cast (S$6.90/US$5 a month with as a joint venture between Singtel, Sony S$9.90/US$7 for the Go Select pack or no contract or S$4.90/US$3.60 a month Pictures Television and Warner Bros, the Go Sports pack. Go Disney pack on a 12-month contract). Viu Premium offering Hollywood/Bollywood/regional is S$4.90/US$3.50 a month. There is offers unlimited downloads/full HD. movies and TV series. Subscriptions no video streaming data charges for start from S$7.90/US$5.70 a month (for StarHub's postpaid mobile subscribers. Singtel's customers) and S$9.98/US$7.20 StarHub first ventured into OTT in June a month via Hooq directly. 2012 with the launch of StarHub TV Production Anywhere/Wherever platform. Netflix activeTV Asia activeTV Asia, established in 2006, Netflix launched in Singapore in Jan 2016 Toggle produces content across various as part of its global rollout. Standalone Singapore’s free-TV broadcaster genres, including reality, factual subscriptions are between S$10.98/ Mediacorp debuted its online entertainment and children’s television. US$8 and S$16.98/US$12.30. Netflix is also streaming platform, Toggle, in Feb 2013. Production credits include two seasons offered through broadband/pay-TV Toggle relaunched in April 2015 after of reality series Celebrity Car Wars S1/2, service providers – StarHub and Singtel. Mediacorp’s alliance with Microsoft ended in March 2015. Toggle offers free/ infotainment series Food Detectives, and Singtel TV Go paid on-demand titles and channels, stand-up comedy specials for Netflix. Singtel TV Go is a companion app to Toggle Original content and acquired August Media Singtel TV’s pay-TV set-top box and is TV series/movies. Toggle Prime (unlimited August Media co-produces with partners offered to Singtel TV subscribers only. The access to all content, including premium such as South Korean animation studio mobile platform launched in July 2013 as linear/VOD and free-TV previews) costs Studio Gale and Philippines-based mio TV Go and relaunched as Singtel TV S$9.90/US$7 a month. Toggle also offers Synergy88. The production unit is part of Go in Jan 2015. The service carries 165 HBO Go at S$13.98/US$10.30 a month August Media Holdings, which creates channels (including 37+ on-demand) and Korean movie channel tvN Movies and manages intellectual property delivered to TV sets via Singtel fibre at S$5.90/US$4.30 a month, all with targeting kids/youth. broadband and 144 channels (incl. 31 discounts for longer-term sign-ups. C NTENTASIA countryprofile 22 July-8 September 2019 Page 12.

BananaMana Films in 2016. The company conceptualises films across Asia since 2008, including Established in 2012, BananaMana and produces original entertainment the Ah Boys to Men franchise and Films focuses on creating aspirational and branded videos for digital platforms. Vampire Cleanup Department. mm2 Asian content in English for global Entertainment projects include digital Entertainment is the production arm of distribution. BananaMana’s best- content for Fox Networks' franchises, Singapore-listed mm2 Asia. known titles are Perfect Girl, which National Geographic, CNN, AXN and won multiple international awards, and Asian Food Channel. Clients include The Moving Visuals Co Jimami Tofu (a Singapore/Okinawa, Puma, Thai Tourism Board, Fiji Airways, Established in 1998, The Moving Visuals Japan co-production). Emirates, Maybelline and AIA Vitality. Co creates content across multiple genres and formats. BDA Creative Freeflow Productions Oak3 Films BDA Creative produces long/short- Freeflow Productions' suite of services Oak3 Films was established in 1996 and form content, crafts stories for brands, include pre- and post-production. produces across multiple genres and collaborates with broadcasters, Broadcast clients include BBC, CNBC and formats. branding, design and promos for Mediacorp. 2019 projects include a one- off reality series Ed Stafford: Man Woman channels and for other media. BDA Ochre Pictures Creative was founded in 2003. Child Wild for Discovery U.K. Since its inception in 2000, Ochre Pictures has produced 500+ hours of TV Beach House Pictures IFA Media content, including documentary, drama Established in 2005, Beach House Started in 2005 in Singapore, IFA Media series, telefilms, entertainment and Pictures specialises in factual and specialises in film, TV and digital content lifestyle series. entertainment programming, including production for international markets. Production credits include Bardo, a Ed Stafford: First Man Out and One Animation Netflix Original series from Taiwan. IFA MasterChef Singapore. Divisions include One Animation is a CG Animation Media was also behind HBO Asia’s first Beach House Kids, which produced studio best known for its Emmy Mandarin original series, The Teenage Teddies; Beach House Entertainment nominated dialogue-free comedy series Psychic, a co-production with Taiwan’s (reality formats/general entertainment); Oddbods. Broadcast partners include Public Television Service (PTS). IFA Media and Beach House Labs (digital/branded Disney Channel, Cartoon Network is headquartered in Singapore with content).Beach House Pictures, a and Nickelodeon as well as Netflix offices in Bangkok, Beijing and Taipei. subsidiary of Blue Ant Media since May and Amazon Prime. One Animation's 2017, is headquartered in Singapore, Imagine Group YouTube channel has four million with offices in Beijing and Taipei. Imagine produces brand-backed reality subscribers (July 2019). series, including The Apartment, The Bomanbridge Media Refinery Media Challenger and Fit for Fashion. Bomanbridge Media is a content Refinery Media is best known for distribution and production Infinite Studios modelling format SupermodelMe (2009- company, offering over 6,000 hours of Infinite Studios offers a suite of media 2015) and for the latest two seasons of programming consisting of formats, entertainment/creative services, Asia’s Next Top Model. lifestyle, specialist factual, factual including back-lot facilities, post- entertainment, drama, kids and Sitting In Pictures production and visual effects. 2018 educational content. Sitting In Pictures, formed in 2000, has production credits include action film produced over 300 hours of factual Buffalo Boys and TV series Grisse for HBO Coconuts TV lifestyle, travel/adventure, science, Asia. Established in 1997, Infinite Studios Coconuts TV produces short videos history, kids drama and game shows. exploring Asia's more unusual stories. also owns and operates a production New videos, spanning news, food, travel, facility on Indonesia’s Batam Island. Sparky Animation and documentary, are published online mm2 Entertainment Established in 2006, Sparky Animation has every week and licensed to broadcast a dedicated games development division Headquartered in Singapore with a TV channels in the U.S., and Asia. in addition to its animation activities. presence in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Coconuts TV is the video production Taiwan and China, mm2 Entertainment division of Coconuts Media, an online Threesixzero Productions produces films and TV/online news network reaching up to 26 million Established in 2001, Threesixzero content, including the Mandarin- people a month. specialises in factual programming. language version of singing talent The company produces programmes show The Voice for Singapore and Eye Creative for, among others, Mediacorp, National Malaysia. mm2 has co-produced Established in Hong Kong in 2015, the Geographic and Discovery. 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Tiny Island Productions contract) for a 300 Mbps home fibre residential broadband customers and Founded in 2002, Tiny Island Productions broadband connection. 2.227 million mobile customers at the specialises in 3D animation productions. end of March 2019. Projects include Dream Defenders, Singapore's first 3D stereoscopic Telcos TPG Telecom animated series. Australian company TPG Telecom won M1 Singapore’s fourth telecoms licence in Established in 1997, M1 provides Wawa Pictures Dec 2016 with a bid of S$105 million/ mobile/fixed services to about two Established in Aug 2007, Wawa Pictures US$73 million. TPG will be provisionally million customers. Services consist of is an independent TV production allocated 60MHz of spectrum, nationwide 4G services, ultra-high- company, producing shows ranging comprising 20MHz in the 900MHz speed fixed broadband and fixed from drama series, variety to docu, spectrum band and 40MHz in the 2.3GHz voice. The telco shuttered its IPTV MiBox reality and kids programming. spectrum band to provide International on the Next Generation Nationwide Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) Broadband Network in early 2016 and and IMT-Advanced services (e.g. 4G delisted from the Singapore Exchange Broadband services). TPG is slated to launch later in April 2019. Major shareholders are in 2019 (as of July 2019). The first mobile MyRepublic Keppel Corporation and Singapore Press product will target seniors aged 65+. Founded in 2011 and launched Holdings Limited. commercially in Feb 2012, MyRepublic is a high-speed service provider using Singtel Regulators Singapore’s next-gen broadband See Singtel TV under Subscription TV network. The company has a customer Singtel offers broadband internet, IPTV, MCI base of about 70,000. Monthly mobile and fixed line telephony services. The Ministry of Communications subscriptions range from S$42.99/US$31.60 4G/Wifi plans start at S$27.90/US$20.50. and Information (MCI) oversees for a 1-Gbps fibre broadband with a Fibre broadband subscriptions start at the development of the infocomm 24-month contract to S$59.99/US$44 S$44.90/US$33 a month (1 Gbps). Singtel technology, media and design sectors; for a 1-Gbps fibre broadband with no has 517,000 triple/quad play residential the national and public libraries; and contract. MyRepublic offers OTT platform households (subscribers of three/four government information and public TVB Anywhere Premium as a value-added Singtel services), 4.13 million mobile communication policies. The mission is service at S$4.98/US$3.70 a month. subscribers (of which 3 million are 4G to build a nation of connected people customers), 630,000 fixed broadband and achieve a better quality of life ViewQwest Fibernet subscribers, and 381,000 pay-TV subs by focusing on developing vibrant ViewQwest was established in 2001. (March 2019). infocomm, media and design sectors, Monthly subscriptions for 24-month fibre cultivating learning communities and broadband bundles cost from S$34/ StarHub fostering an engaged public. US$25 for a 1 Gbps fibre broadband (See Subscription TV) connection. The bundle include three StarHub is an integrated info- IMDA months ViewQwest Freedom DNS, a communications company, offering The Infocomm Media Development home entertainment service that allows communications and entertainment Authority (IMDA) is tasked with access to geo-restricted streaming sites, services for consumer and corporate developing and regulating the and an extra six-month subscription. markets. StarHub operates a 3G/4G converging info-comm and media mobile network and manages an sectors in a holistic way, and Whizcomms island-wide HFC network that delivers implementing Singapore’s Infocomm Whizcomms launched in 2016, offering multi-channel pay-TV services and Media 2025 plan. The IMDA aims to home broadband and IDD voice ultra-high speed residential broadband deepen regulatory capabilities for a services. Subscriptions cost S$32/ services. StarHub had 394,000 pay- converged infocomm media sector. US$23.50 a month (12-month contract) TV household customers, 495,000 or S$26/US$19 a month (24-month Adapted from ContentAsia’s The Big List 2019

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