Channel pick-­‐up series from All3MEDIA International

(HONG KONG – 7TH March 2013) ITV Granada has signed a deal with independent distributor All3MEDIA International, acquiring the newest seasons of hit drama Midsomer Murders for premiere pay-TV broadcast across Asia and the Middle East.

The hit detective drama will air on ITV Granada, first and exclusive, from the fourteenth series across the region, followed by the 2013 series later in the year.

Midsomer Murders will add to ITV Granada’s established lineup of award winning, primetime dramas which include Lewis, Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Doc Martin.

Midsomer Murders first aired on ITV UK in 1997, and has been a ratings winner ever since. The latest series premiere achieved 6.13 million viewers on ITV in the UK, a 25% share of the primetime audience.

The series is based on the books by Carline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The new stories revolve around DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon), who replaces John Nettles character, and his partner DC Ben Jones (Jason Hughes), who together fight crime in the beautiful, but deadly fictional English county of Midsomer.

The deal was negotiated by Stephen Driscoll, VP International Sales at All3MEDIA International, and Marita Thurnauer, Programme Director for ITV Granada.

The channel will rebrand as ITV Choice from 25th March.

Midsomer Murders will broadcast on Wednesdays, starting 13th March: IST 1830, MALTA 1900, THAI 2000, HK/SIN/KSA 2100, MAL/UAE 2200.

About ITV Granada

ITV Granada broadcast the latest in reality shows from leading producers in the UK and around the world. Available throughout Asia and the Middle East, reaching over 7 million households, in more than 40 countries.

ITV Granada is available in Hong Kong – nowTV 517, Singapore – StarHub 523, Malaysia – ASTRO 735, Malta – Go Cable 305 & Melita Cable 309, Maldives – MediaNet, Middle East – OSN 217, Mongolia – Sky C&C, Korea – CJ TVing, Indonesia –TelkomVision 503, Taiwan – Chung Hwa Telecom MOD TV 78, Cambodia – PPCTV, and Thailand TOT 943.

www.itv.asia

www.facebook.com/ITVGranada

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For further information:

Jennifer Tattersall
Marketing Manager
jennifer.tattersall@itv.com

THE WALKING DEAD CREATOR ROBERT KIRKMAN AND FOX INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS POSSESS NEW EXORCISM SERIES
SCRIPT BEING DEVELOPED IN CONJUNCTION WITH KIRKMAN’S UPCOMING COMIC BOOK SERIES

Asia – March 6, 2013 – FOX International Channels (FIC),The Walking Dead Creator/Executive Producer Robert Kirkman, Kirkman’s Skybound imprint at Image Comics, and Circle of Confusion are developing a script based on Kirkman’s upcoming comic book series set in the world of exorcism. This partnership emerged from a long-standing and successful relationship between Kirkman and FIC during the ongoing run of AMC’s hit series, The Walking Dead, based on Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning comic book series, on which FIC is international partner.

Told through the Kirkman prism, the series follows a young man, Kyle Barnes, who has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a spiritual journey to find answers but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it. Kirkman will serve as executive producer alongside The Walking Dead executive producer David Alpert of Circle of Confusion.

Kirkman states, “Sharon Tal Yguado and the entire team at FOX International Channels have been instrumental in making The Walking Dead the worldwide success that it has become. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to continue working with this forward-thinking and extremely talented group.”

“Exorcism has captivated movie audiences all over the world but has never been explored on television,” said Sharon Tal Yguado, EVP Global Scripted Programming and Original Development at FIC. “Robert Kirkman, who forever changed the scope of Cable TV with The Walking Dead, possesses an unparalleled talent of telling big concept stories in a smart and incredibly genuine way. We couldn’t be more excited to be working with him on this project, which we see as a reinvention of the genre.”

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About FOX International Channels

FOX International Channels (FIC) is News Corporation’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 44 languages. These networks and their related mobile, non-linear and high-definition extensions, reach over 1.4 billion cumulative households worldwide. FIC is dedicated to delivering high quality US content to its global viewers. We acquire, develop, produce and co-produce scripted and non-scripted programming for our linear and digital platforms including David Goyer’s upcoming series Da Vinci’s Demons, The Bridge, and the Golden Globes nominated hit series The Walking Dead. In the past five years FIC pioneered a global release strategy and is the first and only international TV company to release TV series’ in 120 countries at the same time as the US. In addition FIC owns and operates two production studios that produce hundreds of local programming hours for its wholly owned channels and third parties.

About Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman’s success and passionate advocacy for creator-owned comics led him to become the first person invited to become a partner at Image Comics since the company’s inception twenty years ago. Kirkman is the creator/writer of the Eisner Award-winning The Walking Dead, long-running Invincible, all-ages Super Dinosaur and Thief of Thieves. In 2010, Kirkman formed his own Image imprint, Skybound, which publishes his own work and Witch Doctor, Invincible Universe and Clone. Kirkman has earned the respect of the comic, writing and television communities and topped the New York Times bestseller list for graphic novels in 2011 and 2012. In April 2012, he took the top five spots on both the hardcover and paperback lists. He’s the creator/executive

producer and writer of the hit Emmy®-winning television show, AMC’s The Walking Dead, the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time in the U.S, also an international success in 122 countries and 37 languages. AMC is developing Thief of Thieves as a potential series with Kirkman serving as creator/executive producer and writer. Your destinations for all news and merchandise from Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead and all Skybound titles is www.Skybound.com and www.TheWalkingDead.com

For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:

For Robert Kirkman/Skybound:
Brenda Feldman
(818) 808-0000
FeldmanPR1@gmail.com

For FOX International Channels
Kelly Jang
Tel: +852 2621 8875
Email: kelly.jang@fox.com

“Make the Unimaginable Fashionable”

Hong Kong, March 1, 2013 – Talented emerging fashion designers from around the world gather with one goal in mind: to be crowned the new fashion prodigy and win the title of ‘Design Genius’. The fashion-packed competition series pits three designers against each other competing for recognition and the chance to win $25,000. Outrageous fashion designer-turned-reality star, Indashio, hosts and judges the series.

In each episode, three designers are surprised with three unconventional materials and one inspirational element. They must create an accessory, undergarment, and wardrobe using only the items provided. “It’s amazing to watch these designers create high fashion garments out of bicycles, beach balls and first-aid kits, and then bring these individual pieces together to create an overall vision,” explains New York City’s famed Indashio. “It’s about making the unimaginable fashionable… It’s design or die!” With crippling time constraints, obscure materials and unpredictable inspirations, designers will battle it out and find their design skills pushed to the limit.

Each designer will have to be flexible, inventive, creative, and display a unique talent for designing with unconventional materials. In the end, there can be only one Design Genius!

“It’s all about creativity in design and material use. The contestants in this fashion-packed competition series are given the extreme inspirational and obscure elements to construct with. Viewers can expect amazing drama and design from these different contestants from all over the world.” remarked Ashley Jordan, CEO of Fashion One.

Alongside the show, the Fashion One Network will launch a worldwide competition for those who have what it takes to become a Design Genius. Everyone is invited to showcase their creativity by submitting photos using unconventional materials to create inventive clothing and/or accessories. The winner will be awarded with a cash prize of US$1000 and a chance to be interviewed as a participant for the next season of Design Genius.

Design Genius will air on March 19, 2013 and will be shown every Tuesday at 9:00pm in UK and 10:30pm (GMT+8 for Asia / GMT+2 for Europe and Africa) for the rest of the world, exclusively on Fashion One Network. Check your cable operators for your local TV channel listing.

The next season of Design Genius – Design Genius Asia – is casting the next group of upcoming designers. For more information or to learn how to apply, please contact brandilyn@bigfootstudios.com.

Get to know more about Design Genius by going to www.designgenius.com or follow Fashion One on twitter @fashion_one #DesignGenius and “Like” us on Facebook www.facebook.com/fashionone.

Design Genius is production of Bigfoot Entertainment for Fashion One Network’s original programming. The show is created by executive producers, Michael Gleissner and Ashley Jordan, with Cara Salmeri as producer and Andrew McMennamy as director.

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About Fashion One

FASHION ONE is a global lifestyle and entertainment TV network for women focused on glamorous and inspirational fashion in all aspect of life. With the latest updates and in-depth interviews with designers and celebrities, female audiences will be entertained with Fashion One’s original programmes including reality shows, documentary, travelogue, entertainment news and lifestyle magazine. The Fashion One Network is a subsidiary of Bigfoot Entertainment launched in 2010. For more information, visit www.fashionone.com.

For media enquiries, please contact:

Gorden Li
gorden@fashionone.com
+852 5808 3450

Elemental Live supports multiscreen content delivery to the network’s widely deployed digital and mobile applications

PORTLAND, Ore.–(March 5, 2013)–Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced The Weather Channel is using Elemental video processing systems to support live programming and simulcasts to 100+ million U.S. households.

Elemental® Live video processing systems are deployed in The Weather Channel operations center in Atlanta, Georgia to help the network deliver top weather stories to viewers, including live video streaming of major weather events and breaking weather-related news.

For example, The Weather Channel is using Elemental systems to stream live content to the company’s YouTube channel. When The Weather Channel streamed live coverage of Hurricane Sandy to YouTube in 2012, Elemental systems powered delivery of video over the duration of the event. There were more than 12 million total live video streams viewed during the course of Sandy on weather.com and YouTube, with a peak of 167,000 concurrent users.

To support the growing demand for its content on portable devices, The Weather Channel uses Elemental Live systems to format and stream video to its highly successful mobile applications. With more than 100 million cumulative app downloads on all tablets and smartphones, The Weather Channel reaches 38 million mobile consumers monthly through weather.com on web and mobile applications. The cable network also reaches 50 million web consumers on weather.com and desktop platforms.

“The success and reach of our mobile applications is a testament to our users, to our technology team that creates the best apps available on every screen, and to video processing solutions from Elemental that power our multiscreen offerings,” said Bryson Koehler, executive vice president and chief information officer for The Weather Channel. “With the astounding growth of our digital audience for our premium content on web and mobile screens, assuring a high-quality, widely available viewing experience is vital.”

“We are thrilled to support The Weather Channel in its coverage of vital weather-related news, information and programming and to help facilitate the infrastructural transitions key to increasing audience reach across multiple screens and new revenue streams,” said Dan Marshall, SVP worldwide sales and service at Elemental. “Our powerful video processing software delivers the high level of quality and efficiency required to support the network’s distribution of market-leading content to a wide array of devices.”

Elemental will exhibit its unified video solutions at several upcoming industry events: OTTCON March 19-20 in Santa Clara, California, TV Connect March 19-21 in London, England and NAB April 8-11 in Las Vegas, Nevada. To schedule a meeting with an Elemental representative at these events, please visit http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/lp/schedule-meeting.

The Weather Company: The World’s Best Weather

Through The Weather Channel, weather.com, Weather Underground, Intellicast.com and third-party publishing partners, the company provides millions of people every day with the world’s best weather forecasts, content and data, connecting with them through television, online, mobile and tablet screens. Through WSI and Weather Central, the company delivers superior professional weather services for the media, aviation, marine and energy sectors. The Weather Company is owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital. For more information, visit www.weather.com/press.

About Elemental

Elemental Technologies is the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company pioneered the use of graphics processors to power adaptive video streaming over IP networks. Providing unmatched solutions for hundreds of customers around the world, including nine of the top ten media and entertainment companies in the United States, Elemental helps content programmers and pay TV operators bring video to any screen, anytime – all at once. The company has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore and Brazil. To learn more, please visit www.elementaltechnologies.com and follow @elementaltech on Twitter.

Contact:

Elemental Technologies
Laura Barber, 503-703-3638
laurab@elementaltechnologies.com

New carriage deal with MeTV

(HONG KONG, 5th March 2013) ITV Granada, part of ITV Studios, has announced expansion of the channel’s distribution in Thailand. ITV Granada is now offered through Thailand’s latest IPTV operator MeTV, on the TOT platform.

The latest distribution deal, which was handled by sales distribution partner Multi Channels Asia, demonstrates a growing demand for the channel throughout Asia and the Middle East.

Simon Li, Channel Director says “We are delighted to be joining the MeTV family and growing our footprint in Thailand. With this expansion we aim to bring more of ITV’s premium drama and entertainment titles to both local and ex-pat audiences.”

ITV Granada will rebrand as ITV Choice on 25th March.

Note to editors: ITV Granada is available on TOT IPTV, through the Choice L package on channel 943.

About ITV Granada

ITV Granada broadcast the latest in reality shows from leading producers in the UK and around the world. Available throughout Asia and the Middle East reaching over 7 million households, in more than 40 countries.

ITV Granada is available in Hong Kong – nowTV 517, Singapore – StarHub 523, Malaysia – ASTRO 735, Malta – Go Cable 305 & Melita Cable 309, Maldives – MediaNet, Middle East – OSN 217, Mongolia – Sky C&C, Korea – CJ TVing, Indonesia –TelkomVision 503, Taiwan – Chung Hwa Telecom MOD TV 78, Cambodia – PPCTV, and Thailand METV 943.

www.itv.asia

www.facebook.com/ITVGranada

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For further information:

Jennifer Tattersall
Marketing Manager
jennifer.tattersall@itv.com

March 1, 2013: Here’s how Tan Tong Hai plans to make StarHub as local as it can be.

SBR: What makes you excited about your new position? What will you do differently in this position? What changes are you planning for?

Having been the Chief Operating Officer for the past four years, it helps me to understand the industry players, regulators and capabilities within StarHub. The ground knowledge will be very useful in my new role as Chief Executive Officer as I translate our business strategies into actions.

Read more at Singapore Business Review

March 4, 2013: Cumulative shipments of ALi’s standard definition STB chipsets have reached 10 million units in the China cable pay TV market, with coverage in 23 provinces and regions. High definition solutions are also available in mass production quantities in three provinces. Backed by the impressive track record and moving forward to the coming year, ALi continues to provide STB solutions aiming at the Chinese market. Among those are cable plus OTT hybrid solutions allowing MSO to provide diverse services; multi-screen interactive applications enabling interactive playback control among various display devices such as smart phones, TV, and STB; cost-efficient HD chipsets pushing faster migration to high definition digital TV.

Read more at Advanced Television

March 4, 2013: Australia’s National Broadband Network has signed an important A$300 million deal with France’s Arianespace to launch the NBN satellites into orbit. NBN Co is spending A$620 million on two Ka-band satellites with both expected to be operational by 2015. With US giant Space Systems/Loral currently building the satellites, NBN Co has now secured the services of Arianespace to take them up into space.

Read more at Advanced Television