5-18 October C NTENT 2020 www.contentasia.tv l www.contentasiasummit.com ABS-CBN share price soars on ISSUE THREE / OCT 2020 comeback talk New deals with Zoe C NTENT Broadcasting, GSat Plus: Soundbites & more from Tried & True: Next steps & new Formats Outlook: the ContentAsia Summit; boost content reach ventures for Thailand’s True Thailand in-depth Japan ramps up Philippines’ ABS-CBN continues to recon- struct its business after the collapse of efforts to renew its broadcast franchise, adding an undisclosed slate of movies and entertainment programmes to Zoe Broadcasting Network’s newly rebrand- ed A2Z Channel 11 as well as a bouquet of linear channels to direct-broadcast satellite platform GSat. ABS-CBN share price soared from Ps7.06 to Ps10.58 on Monday after week- end speculation of a comeback for the Kapamilya channel. The corporation’s chief financial and compliance officer, Aldrin Cerrado, told the Philippine Stock Exchange in a sworn statement on Monday (5 Oct) – a day before the Zoe TV deal was announced this afternoon (6 Oct) – that the compa- ny “cannot categorically give a reason for the movement”. ABS-CBN’s free-TV broadcast network was forced off air in May this year after a failed franchise renewal application. The rest of the story is on page 2 1. Cover layout.indd 1 05/10/2020 15:08 q ContentAsia @ MIPCOM 2020 PLUS... Special edition out now! • CJ ENM HK strikes GoPlay movie deal • Who’s who in Korea • The Boys sweeps Thai demand • New My Little Pony heads for Asia Pac • HK preps for 1 Dec digital switch • Astro hits 100K 4K Ultrabox installs • Blue Ant, NBCUni renew www.contentasia.tv contentasia 5-18 october 2020 page 1. C NTENTASIA 5-18 October 2020 Page 2. ABS-CBN reconstruction continues New blocktime, carriage deals with Zoe, GSat boost Kapamilya footprint ...continued from page 1 and educational programming with a Lord above,” he said. The company’s direct-broadcast satel- strong Christian angle, is available in The Zoe agreement follows the 5 Oct lite platform, Sky Direct, was taken down analogue in Metro Manila and nearby debut of ABS-CBN channels Jeepney in June. provinces. TV, Cinemo and lifestyle channel Metro The programme supply deal between In a move that sparked the weekend Channel on direct-to-home satellite ABS-CBN and Zoe’s A2Z kicks in this Sat- headlines, ABS-CBN’s cable platform, platform GSat. urday (10 Oct). Sky Cable, has also added Zoe TV to The carriage deal gives shows such Financial details of the deal have not its linear line up in a carriage deal that as Good Vibes with Edu with actor been disclosed. starts this week. Edu Manzano and travel show Pia’s Zoe said today (Tues, 6 Oct) that Zoe Broadcasting Network’s chairman Postcards with Miss Universe 2015, Pia “some of the best-loved ABS-CBN and president, Sherwin Tugna, said on Wurtzback their footprint back. GSat is shows” would air on the channel in Tuesday that A2Z’s line up had been the country’s second largest satellite a blocktime arrangement with ABS- assembled “with the goal of fulfilling the platform after Cignal TV. CBN, along with programmes from the spiritual, information and entertainment The two new deals follow months of Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN needs of Filipinos during this pandemic frantic digital activity and massive cost Asia), the Knowledge Channel, its own and beyond”. cutting as the network figures out its Light TV 33, and other providers. “Zoe Channel 11 TV gets a new name, post-franchise future, as well as the res- ABS-CBN has not confirmed which of a new look, and a new journey serving ignation of Gabby Lopez as chairman its shows will populate its block on the God and the Filipino people. We strive emeritus and director towards the end A2Z free-TV channel. to provide Filipinos with the best type of September. Zoe, which also offers public service of programming and bring glory to the @all3media_int all3mediainternational.com C NTENTASIA 5-18 October 2020 Page 3. Page 3. My Little Pony heads for Asia Pac SEA, SG, Aus, NZ pick up first rights to new series Platforms in Southeast Asia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand have picked up rights to the latest My Little Pony series – My Little Pony: Pony Life – in a bundle of deals announced by Hasbro’s eOne in the run up to Mipcom next week. The 40-ep- isode series will air on Turner Australia, Turner SE Asia, Channel 9 GO! in Australia, TVNZ New Zealand and Mediacorp Singapore. My Little Pony: Pony Life premieres this fall, with a broader roll out between the end of the year and spring 2021. HK preps for 1 Dec analogue shut-down 68K homes may be left behind in digital switch About 68,000 homes in Hong Kong could be left without TV signals when ana- logue signals are switched off at midnight on 30 Nov; the new era is ushered in on 1 December. Commerce and Economic Development Bureau stats show that almost 95% of homes had switched by July. “These figures show that most Hong Kong residents are ready for full digital TV broadcast,” the bureau says. Households in need are being encouraged to take advantage of the Commu- nity Care Fund Digital Television Assistance Programme. Astro hits 100K installs on 4K ultra box Average weekly time spent on-demand up 21% Malaysia’s Astro continues to push its Ultra Box, saying this month that more than 100,000 of the 4K UHD boxes have already been installed with access to 50,000 on-demand titles. In all, the platform says subscribers streamed 77 million on- demand videos in the first half of the year, more than double compared to the same six months last year. Astro is hanging a lot of the credit on 4K UHD content, saying average weekly time spent increased by 21% year on year to 561 minutes “as customers discover more 4K UHD content” 5-18 october 2020 page 3. 5-18 october 2020 page 4. C NTENTASIA 5-18 October 2020 Page 5. Blue Ant, NBCU CJ ENM strikes movie deal with GoPlay renew content deal Indonesian platform adds tvN movies SVOD & PPV New rights bring new Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers shows to Asia The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon Singapore-based regional channels Peninsula operator, Blue Ant Media Asia, has upped its content supply deal with NBC Korea’s CJ ENM regional channels Busan sequel, Peninsula, on 15 Novem- Universal, adding day-and-date rights to operator, CJ ENM HK, has launched tvN ber. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Movies SVOD and pay-per-view services Also available from launch are a slate and Late Night with Seth Myers to Blue with Gojek’s one-year-old Indonesian of library titles, including Train to Busan, Ant Entertainment’s line up along with streaming platform GoPlay. Parasite, Ashfall, The Divine Fury, The sci-fi drama Brave New World, based on The new titles go live on Tuesday, 6 Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Innocent Aldous Huxley’s novel about a utopian Oct, as part of GoPlay’s fledgling pay- Witness, Along with the Gods: The Last 49 society that have achieved peace and per-view platform, GoPlay Rental, which Days and Battleship Island. stability. offers movies at Rp15/US$1 per title. This is the largest deal CJ ENM has New titles heading for sister linear The tvN offering kicks off with politi- struck with the Indonesian platform, channel, Blue Ant Extreme, are enter- cal thriller, Steel Rain 2: Summit, about which is part of the Gojek super app. tainment show Battlebots and travel peace summit in a submarine 800 feet GoPlay’s past deals with CJ ENM include shows Walking to the Americas and below sea level. scripted format rights to drama series From Russia to Iran: Crossing the Wild Action thriller, Deliver Us From Evil goes Tunnel and the acquisition of a few Frontier. love on 1 November, followed by Train to drama titles. Contact Leah Gordon at [email protected] C NTENT (Americas, Europe, U.K.) Masliana Masron at [email protected] mipcomdailies (Asia, Australia, Middle East) Book your banner: deadline Fri, 9 Oct. contentasia C NTENTASIA countryprofile 5-18 October 2020 Page 6. Korea In numbers Population................................ 51.8 million Households.............................. 22.89 million Total pay TV subs.................... 33.03 million - IPTV subscribers..................... 16.05 million - Cable TV SO subs................. 13.76 million - Satellite TV subs........................ 3.3 million Internet users........................... 49.23 million Mobile subscribers.................. 69.07 million Smartphone subscribers......... 51.37 million VOD h/h (>1 min viewing)....... 4.13 million Source: Statistics Korea/KOSIS (population/ households, Aug 2020), Ministry of Science and ICT (mobile in Feb 2020, pay TV in June 2019), Korea Communications Commission (VOD in 2019), ITU/Internet World Stats (internet in 2019) Free TV EBS I Can See Your Voice Korea 7, CJ ENM Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) was founded 1973 for educational DMB/mobile channels. KBS subsidiaries production and distribution, and establishments and launched in 1974 include KBS Media, which manages internet/new media. as a radio station under the Korean local/global marketing of KBS content. Educational Development Institute. TV KBS is funded by viewer licence fees. broadcasting started in 1980. EBS was Pay TV re-established as a public corporation in MBC 2000, and currently owns and operates Established in 1961, Munhwa B tv (Broad&tv) seven TV channels, including EBS1 Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is a IPTV service B tv was launched in 2009 (digital terrestrial channel for general public broadcaster with 98% coverage by SK Telecom’s broadband unit, SK viewers) and EBS2 (English content of Korea.