C Ntentasia 2015

C Ntentasia 2015

2-15 november C NTENTASIA 2015 www.contentasia.tv l https://www.facebook.com/contentasia?fref=ts facebook.com/contentasia l @contentasia l www.contentasiasummit.com Malaysia’s Prodigee turbocharges Asian content agenda WebTVAsia drives digital growth Malaysian media/entertainment group, Prodigee Media, has turbocharged its global content creation and distribution initiatives, aiming, among other things, to drive a billion views a month to its online entertainment platform WebTVAsia by this time next year. Story on page 5 Keshet boosts Asia biz Pudney leads regional push out of Hong Kong Keshet International is turbocharging its Asia business with a new office in Hong Kong and expanded regional ambi- tions driven on the ground by former Sparks|Eccho Group Asia head Gary Pudney. Story on page 6 Hopster ups Asia rights Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends head for Asia Kids online platform Hopster has acquired India and Southeast Asia rights to kids properties Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends. The new rights come as the U.K.- based global platform ramps up its Asia presence, supported on the ground by former BBC/Nickelodeon boss Christine Leo-McKerrow. Story on page 2 C NTENTASIA 2-15 november 2015 Page 2. Palia to head Viacom18 Hopster ups Asia rights youth entertainment Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends head for Asia India’s Viacom18 has ap- Kids online platform Hopster has acquired India and pointed Ferzad Palia as Southeast Asia rights to classic kids properties Bob Bob the Builder the head of youth en- the Builder and Thomas & Friends. tertainment. The role The new rights come as the U.K.-based global involves MTV as well as platform ramps up its Asia presence, supported indie platform Pepsi MTV on the ground in Asia Pacific by former BBC/ Indies. Palia will continue Nickelodeon boss Christine Leo-McKerrow. Ferzad Palia as head of English en- The two new Hit Entertainment properties join tertainment, overseeing Vh1, Comedy Hopster’s Southeast Asia line up of 22 pre- Central and Colors Infinity. He reports to school titles, including Caspar Babypants, 64 group chief executive, Sudhanshu Vats. Zoo Lane, Toby’s Travelling Circus and Babar. Backyardigans, Moshi Monsters, Peg + Cat and Wonderballs were added in October and Novem- Grantchester tops ber, joined in December and January 2016 by Madeline, Monster Math Squad, Adven- ITV Choice Xmas bill tures of Paddington, SuperWhy, In the Night Garden, Teletubbies, Caillou U.K. entertainment service ITV Choice has and Franny’s Feet. put period detective series Grantchester, Hopster has more than 20,000 down- starring James Norton and Robson Green loads in Southeast Asia and India since as unlikely partners, at the top of its Christ- launching in the region in June this year. mas line up for Asia and the Middle East. The first and exclusive broadcast is on Fri- day, 18 December. Winx Club arrives in Thailand Rainbow’s Winx Club has rolled out across Thailand in a venture with free-TV satellite programmer, JKN Channel. The Thai debut begins with the fourth series of the ani- mated property. Winx Club, about a group of young fairies, airs in Malaysia, Vietnam, China and Sin- gapore. The series targets girls from four to 10 years old. Robson Green (left) and James Norton Where Asia’s best new animation starts. December 7-9. 2015 • Jeju, South Korea Out now! ISSUE FIVE 2015 C NTENTASIA Asia’s latest BFFs: PLUS: Bunim/Murray’s Gil Goldschein; The battle for India’s 4K & Blue Ant Media; advertising OTT heart and soul Sony Pictures & Nippon TV credibility in Asia – the scorecard HOME OF THE TOP AWARDS SHOWS LIVE FROM THE U.S. d e v r e s e r s t h g i r l l A . c n I g n i t s a c d a o r B S B C 3 1 0 2 © 1. AdCover layout.indd 1 14/10/15 15:55:28 ContentAsia...in print+interactive Click here for the online issue For editorial info, contact Janine at [email protected] To advertise in any of ContentAsia’s publications or online, contact Masliana at [email protected] (Asia, Australia and Middle East) or Leah at [email protected] (Americas and Europe) 2-15 november 2015 page 3. C NTENTASIA 2-15 november 2015 Page 4. Bloomberg rolls out StarHub rolls out the red carpet for HK’s TVB Asia biz site Liza Wang, Adam Cheng take home special SG50 awards Bloomberg launched the Asia edition of Hong Kong TV actors, Adam Cheng and BloombergBusiness.com on 2 November, Liza Wang, took home special commem- with a slate of features including break- orative SG50: Star of the Stars Awards in ing news and mobile alerts targetting Asia this year’s sixth annual StarHub TVB Award Pacific users. held in Singapore at the end of October. The company said the launch represent- StarHub said the awards were in recog- ed its commitment “to delivering more nition of the two artists “abilities to create localised, relevant content to today’s strong, lasting bonds with Singaporean au- global, mobile business news consumer diences throughout the past decades”. in international markets”. Wang was also crowned My Favourite The site will be driven by a newly formed TVB Actress, beating out Linda Chung, regional team of editors, headed by Anjali Kristal Tin and Tavia Yeung. Her second Kapoor, based in Hong Kong. The team win was for My Favourite TVB Variety Show will draw content from Bloomberg’s 500 Host with co-hosts Adam Cheng and Jerry journalists across 24 Asia Pacific cities. Lamb in Sunday Songbird. Bloomberg data shows 3.6 million Ruco Chan won My Favourite TVB Ac- unique visitors to its digital properties in tor for the second consecutive year. Sci-fi September. drama, Captain of Destiny, about infa- mous Chinese Pirate Cheung Po Tsai, was awarded My Favourite TVB Drama. A total of 33 awards were presented in 17 Nat Geo green lights 12 categories, out of which 14 were open for public voting. Liza Wang clinched the highly coveted hours of archive shows My Favourite TVB Actress award Nat Geo Wild International has green lit 12 hours of natural history content from fac- tual producer NHNZ’s Archive Unit. The new hours will be created from Korea’s SK Telecom goes after cable provider stock footage from NHNZ Moving Images SK, CJ to focus on their strengths, local observers say Archive, combined with footage from a various stock footage libraries around the South Korean mobile telco, SK Telecom, world. SK Telecom will hold a stake of just more is going after a significant stake in major The slate includes a second season of than 75% in the merged entity. cable channel provider CJ Hellovision. Wild 24, an original series from the Archive The acquisition is expected to be com- Weekend reports on the price the telco Unit following 24 hours in one geographi- plete by April 2016. is said to have offered vary widely, from cal location per episode, and the first sea- The Korea Herald said the move was KRW500 billion/US$438 million for a 30% son of an original series Extreme Animals: being seen by analysts “as part of an stake to KRW2 trillion/US$1.8 billion, ac- Babies (WT), which will countdown the effort from South Korea’s two major con- cording to different local reports. most extreme juvenile behaviour in the glomerates – SK Group and CJ Group – to Yonhap, quoting a company statement, animal kingdom. reshape their business portfolios to focus put the figure at KRW500 billion, and said The Archive Unit has had over 30 hours on their strengths”. the initial 30% stake would be followed by of production greenlit since launching in CJ’s mobile streaming platform, TVing, an additional 25.3%. mid-2014, including one-off specials and is said to have been excluded from the CJ Hellovision, which has more than four original series, in addition to contributing deal. Joongang Daily said TVing was likely million TV subscribers and about 2.4 million to several archive anthologies. to be transferred to CJ’s E&M division. high-speed broadband subs, and SK Tel- Wild 24 series two and Extreme Animals: Other weekend reports said this was the ecom’s SK Broadband Co are expected Babies (WT) will be distributed by Fox Inter- first time that a Korean telco has acquired to merge following the acquisition. national Channels Content Sales. a cable television company. C NTENTASIA 2-15 november 2015 Page 5. Malaysia’s Prodigee turbocharges Asian content agenda Online platform WebTVAsia drives digital growth Malaysian media/entertainment group, Prodigee Media, has turbocharged its global content creation and distribution initiatives, aiming, among other things, to drive a billion views a month to its online entertainment platform, WebTVAsia, by this time next year. Celebrating Prodigee’s 10th anniver- sary this year, group chief executive, Fred Chong, outlines a plan that will also double WebTV Asia’s channels from 500 to 1,000 over the next 12 months, roll out a WebTVAsia-branded mobile video platform, and align resources from across Asia to “help content creators in Asia to reach bigger audiences”. The slate of five MoUs signed in Kuala From left: Fred Chong, CEO, Prodigee Media and WebTVAsia; Liu Kailuo, CEO, Youku Heyi Films; Lumpur in October pair the 10-year-old Zhang Fengkui, CEO, Stellar Mega Picture; Kim Tai Sik, Filmline movie director; Penny Jiang, Production Director, Wanda Films Malaysian group with media companies and investors from China, Korea, the U.S. and France. partnership between Prodigee and Chi- bine all the experience we have over Partners include Youku Tudou’s film na Media Capital’s Whaley Technologies the past 10 years.

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