(Dec 3, 2013) Turner has hired Frenchman Clément Schwebig to drive business development for the broadcaster in Asia Pacific.
He joins the company as SVP of business development from European broadcaster RTL Group, where he was SVP of TV operations based in Mumbai.
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SINGAPORE/ BEIJING, 5 DECEMBER 2013 – Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Asia, a division of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB) and Sohu Video, a division of Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ:SOHU), announced today a strategic collaboration for online video-on-demand and video syndication in China that will enable over 389 million Chinese online video users* to access free streaming of Mandarin-dubbed and subtitled Nickelodeon programming on tv.sohu.com over the next twelve months. Sohu Video will start to offer over 200 hours of Nickelodeon programming on December 15th 2013, including iconic and beloved characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Avatar.
“Today’s announcement reinforces and strengthens us as a media content provider in the fast-growing new media and mobile internet industry in China. We have been focused on developing our brands’ presence in China, and expanding business relationships with partners that allow consumers to access VIMN’s entertainment content across a multi-platform environment,” said VIMN Asia’s executive vice president and managing director, Indra Suharjono. “Coupled with the fact that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles recently premiered on CCTV Kids in October, today’s announcement with Sohu Video is the clearest testament to Viacom’s success in bringing great entertainment content to China too. We hope to continue to expand our entertainment content access to Sohu.com online video users.”
“We are excited to collaborate with VIMN and welcome their well-established content on our platform,” said Dr. Charles Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Sohu.com Inc. “Nickelodeon’s content has strong appeal and relevance with the Chinese audience. I hope that our collaboration will allow us to bring more exciting international children’s programming to our online users.”
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*Based on CNNIC data, dated June 2013.
About Sohu.com
Sohu (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China’s premier online brand and is indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and leading online media destination www.sohu.com; interactive search engine www.sogou.com; developer and operator of online games www.changyou.com/en/ and leading online video website tv.sohu.com.
Sohu corporate services consist of online brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as bid listing and home page on its in-house developed search directory and engine. Sohu also provides multiple news and information service on mobile platforms, including Sohu News App and mobile news portal WAP.Sohu.com. Sohu’s online game subsidiary, Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU) has a diverse portfolio of online games that includes Tian Long Ba Bu, one of the most popular massively multi-player online (“MMO”) games in China, and DDTank and Wartune (also known as Shen Qu), which are two popular web games in China. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China’s internet pioneers, is in its seventeenth year of operation.
About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 34th year globally and 15th year in Asia, is one of the most globally recognized and widely distributed multimedia entertainment brands for kids and family. Creating surprising and playful entertainment experiences everywhere it goes, Nickelodeon has a portfolio that includes television programming and production around the world, plus special events, consumer products, digital offerings, recreation, books, feature films and pro-social initiatives. Nickelodeon’s brands are seen globally in more than 450 million households in over 100 territories via more than 70 locally programmed channels and syndication. For information about Nickelodeon in Asia, visit www.nick-asia.com.
About Viacom International Media Networks
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), a unit of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), is comprised of many of the world’s most popular multimedia entertainment brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount Channel, VH1, VIVA, COLORS, Game One and Tr3s: MTV, Música y Más. Viacom brands are seen globally in more than 600 million households in 170 territories and 37 languages via more than 200 locally programmed and operated TV channels and more than 550 digital media and mobile TV properties. For more information about Viacom and its businesses, visit www.viacom.com. Keep up with Viacom news by following Viacom’s blog at blog.viacom.com and Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/Viacom.
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Adeline Ong, Senior Director, Corporate Communications, Asia
t: (65) 6420 7240 m: (65) 9366 7323
e: adeline.ong@vimn.com
Twitter: @VIMNAsia_PR
Sohu.com Inc.
Jin Sun
m: (86) 13761108630
e: jinsun@sohu-inc.com
(Dec 3, 2013) The private spaceflight company SpaceX launched a critical commercial satellite mission from Florida Tuesday after two delays due to technical glitches.
An upgraded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the huge SES-8 communications satellite into orbit from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:41 p.m. EST (2241 GMT). The mission marks SpaceX’s first Florida launch of its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket, its first major communications satellite launch and its first flight to a high geostationary transfer orbit needed for commercial satellites.
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(Dec 3, 2013) Google has signed a deal with HBO to make shows including Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, and True Blood, available on the Google Play service for the first time
Read more at Advanced Television
Newest executive to join FIC Asia’s senior management team will oversee all business and legal affairs across the region.
Hong Kong, December 2, 2013 – FOX International Channels (FIC), has named Francis Chang as its Senior Vice President Legal & Business Affairs and General Counsel for Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Francis joins the company today and serves as the chief legal advisor for Asia’s leading pay-TV network across the region.
As General Counsel, Francis is the most senior legal executive in the region and is responsible for all of FIC’s business and legal affairs as well as its standards and practices. This includes managing FIC’s legal team across the region and working with all levels of the organization as well as various teams to oversee business deals, negotiations, contracts and all legal matters. He is based in Hong Kong and reports to both Zubin Gandevia, FIC’s President of Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and Rita Tuzon, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the FOX Networks Group in the US.
Francis brings with him to FIC exceptional leadership as well as legal and business expertise honed over nearly two decades of experience, with extensive knowledge in key areas such as corporate, commercial, technology, licensing and intellectual property law. He most recently spent eight years at the Canadian law firm, Blake, Cassels & Grayson LLP, based in Vancouver, initially starting as an Associate Counsel in 2005 and then becoming a partner in 2008. His move to FIC marks a return to both Hong Kong and the television industry, having worked at STAR TV as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel from 1999 to 2005, prior to the network coming under 21st Century FOX and becoming a part of FIC Asia. Previous to his tenure at STAR TV, Francis worked at Walt Disney Television International.
“Francis has a great deal of industry knowledge and experience and we are all very pleased that such a well-respected and well-liked former senior colleague has returned to the company,” said Zubin Gandevia. “FIC Asia believes that in order to maintain our position as Asia’s leading pay-TV network we need to assemble the best possible team, and Francis’ appointment cements that commitment.”
Francis said, “FIC is an unparalleled global leader in international media and entertainment, and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such a talented group of executives at FIC Asia in some of the most dynamic and interesting markets in the world.”
Francis obtained his J.D. from the University of Toronto. He also has an MBA (Finance) from New York University Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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About FOX International Channels
FOX International Channels (FIC) is 21st Century FOX’s international multi-media business. We develop, produce and distribute 300+ wholly- and majority-owned entertainment, factual, sports, movie and lifestyle channels across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, in 45 languages. These networks and their related mobile, non-linear and high-definition extensions, reach over 1.6 billion cumulative households worldwide.
In Asia, FIC operates or distributes 30+ channel brands, including the FOX, STAR and National Geographic brands, with over 100 feeds across 14 markets. As the leading pay-TV network in the region, we reach more than 550 million cumulative subscribers across Asia Pacific and the Middle East with offices in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Australia and the UAE. For more information, please visit www.foxinternationalchannels.com.
This press release was issued on behalf of FOX International Channels Asia by Tactic Public Relations Limited (Tactic). For further information, please contact:
FOX International Channels
Kelly Jang
Director
Pan Regional Trade Marketing & PR
DID: +852 2621 8875
Email: kelly.jang@fox.com
Tactic Public Relations Limited (Tactic)
Kristen Gallagher
Tactic – Hong Kong
DID: +852 2114 4345
Email: kristen.gallagher@tacticpr.com.hk
Diana Low
Tactic – Singapore
DID: +65 6325 8264
Email: diana.low@tacticpr.com.sg
2 December 2013 – A court in France has ordered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to block 16 video-streaming sites from their search results.
The case was brought by five groups representing film companies, distributors and producers.
The High Court in Paris ruled the websites were dedicated to the “distribution of works without consent of their creators”.
Several internet service providers were also ordered to block the sites.
Read more at BBC News
(Dec 1, 2013) CNBC has announced several key appointments to its international team across different functions including advertising sales, business development and distribution. The new appointments are effective immediately.
Read more at Rapid TV News
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(Dec 1, 2013) Australian pay TV operator Foxtel has announced it will launch broadband internet and fixed-line telephony services bundled with its television product. The announcement follows approval by Foxtel’s shareholders Telstra and News Australia, and the execution of a wholesale agreement with Telstra.
The agreement with Telstra enables Foxtel to sell fixed-line broadband and telephony services nationally on both Telstra’s ADSL network and the National Broadband Network (NBN) as it is progressively deployed.
Read more at C+T
