March 9, 2015 – Globecast has appointed sports business expert Rick Horrow as a key industry advisor on a consultancy basis. Horrow and his team will work with Globecast executive staff to identify unique content solutions, development and distribution opportunities, top business targets, and key media, technology, sports, and entertainment industry events, as well as facilitate overall strategic growth in the North American market and elsewhere…
Read more at Advanced Television
Hong Kong, 9 March 2015 – Asia’s leading satellite operator Asia Satellite
Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) announced the launch of a new brand identity,
a new tagline and a newly redesigned website.
This initiative underscores AsiaSat’s renewed commitment to innovation and improvement to
deliver services that best meet the changing needs of its customers and partners.
“AsiaSat has a proven history of excellence in the satellite communications industry. Over the
past year, we have achieved several significant milestones – the addition of two new satellites
AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 to our expanding fleet, successful transfer of customers on AsiaSat 3S
to AsiaSat 7, commissioning of the AsiaSat 9 project, the expansion of our service capability at
our Tai Po Earth Station and the announcement of new shareholders soon to come onboard,
indicate this is the perfect time to refresh the look and feel of our brand,” said William Wade,
President and Chief Executive Officer of AsiaSat.
“With the roll-out of this new brand identity, we take a big step forward in moving closer to the
market and providing ever better services, and growing our partnership. Working along with our
team of dedicated staff, through our new website and our expanding range of marketing and
communications activities, we look forward to exchanging knowledge, sharing insights and
information with our customers and partners more closely than ever before.”
AsiaSat’s new brand identity includes a new logo that symbolises energy and forward
movement, also as a force pushing for improvement and reaching new horizons. The new
tagline ‘Reaching Further, Bringing You Closer’ echoes the company’s tenacious desire to
constantly improve its performance, while positioning AsiaSat as a dedicated and insightful
partner who is proactive in engaging customers’ needs.
AsiaSat’s new brand identity will be showcasing at following upcoming events:
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About AsiaSat
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), the leading satellite operator in Asia,
serves over two-thirds of the world’s population with its six satellites, AsiaSat 3S, AsiaSat 4, AsiaSat 5,
AsiaSat 6, AsiaSat 7 and AsiaSat 8. The AsiaSat satellite fleet serves both the broadcast and
telecommunications industries. Over 450 television and radio channels are now delivered by the
company’s satellites offering access to over 710 million TV households across the Asia-Pacific region.
AsiaSat also provides VSAT networks throughout the region. AsiaSat’s next satellite, AsiaSat 9 on order
from the manufacturer is planned to be launched in 2017. AsiaSat is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Asia
Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited, a company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
Limited (Stock Code: 1135). For more information, please visit www.asiasat.com.
Media Contacts:
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited
Sabrina Cubbon, VP, Sales and Marketing Winnie Pang, Manager, Corporate Affairs
Tel: (852) 2500 0899 Tel: (852) 2500 0880
Mobile: (852) 9097 1210 Email: wpang@asiasat.com
Email: scubbon@asiasat.com
AUSTRALIA, MONDAY MARCH 9: Movideo has today announced the expansion of its management team with the addition of former Turner Director, Broadcast & Media Technology, Steven Kopec.
The news adds to an already impressive start to 2015 for Movideo who just recently revealed that TV5MONDE have chosen their platform to power its services across Asia Pacific.
As Director of Customer Success, Steven Kopec will join the Movideo management team out of their Hong Kong office working across all current and expanding markets. He is charged with the management and optimisation of Movideo’s Consulting Services and Customer Support. With a career in media information technology spanning 20 years Steven is joining Movideo from Turner Broadcasting where he held the role of Director, Broadcast and Media Technology APAC. Most recently, Steven’s efforts have included work on mobile product creation, content distribution technologies and Turner’s efforts in multiplatform content delivery.
CEO Tony McGinn said: “We are thrilled with Steven’s addition to the Movideo leadership team. Investment in this area underlines our ongoing commitment to having the best product and services in the market for our media and entertainment customers. Steven’s deep experience and talent added to our expanding global leadership team will have a positive impact on our customer’s success.”
Movideo has also announced two new Director Positions; Director of Product and Direct of Solitons, Systems & QA. These positions have been filled after an extensive global search by MitchelLake Group and will be announced at the end of the month.
This restructure and senior additions at Movideo follow the announcement that Movideo’s CTO Cameron Moore is leaving the company to pursue a career move to the U.S. McGinn said; “Cameron has been with Movideo and its parent company MCM Entertainment Group for 7 years. He was instrumental in the formation of Movideo and the building of our Platform. We support Cameron in his new career endeavours and he supports us in the continued successful growth of Movideo, Cameron remains a consultant to Movideo”.
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For more information contact Movideo:
Claire Moylan
Marketing Executive
cmoylan@movideo.com
@MovideoMVP
About Movideo:
Movideo has fast become the agile partner of choice for major media brands and content owners around the world. With considerable experience across one of the most complex regions in the world, the Asia Pacific, Movideo has a track record of simplifying complex multi-local solutions, as opposed to a ‘one size fits all’ approach.
Movideo is a global SaaS cloud video platform resourced by the international Microsoft Azure network of data centres. The company was originally developed within the Australian media enterprise, MCM Entertainment Group Ltd. Media content protection, management, distribution, presentation and monetisation is core to Movideo’s DNA.
With the media and content world in the midst of massive structural change, Movideo prides itself on partnering with our media customers to navigate and ‘future proof’ their path to successful audience engagement in the new media world order.
March 8, 2015 – SkyCable recently launched its Sky On-Demand service, which runs on the most advanced digibox to date – harnessing the capabilities of SkyCable and Skybroadband subscriptions to utilize the video streaming site, iWant TV.
Read more at philstar.com
March 7, 2015 – The struggle for eyeballs in the television industry is a battle to become number 1. The statistics fluctuate but there can only be one superior amongst the rest. The intensity of all parties has been apparent in the country – making the battle on content and availability more heated than ever. But the numbers don’t lie. As of the end of 2014 Cignal is now the King in the world of Pay-TV with over 844,000 Cignal TV subscribers across the nation; surpassing the 20-year incumbent.
Read more at philstar.com
Singapore, 5 March 2015 – Celestial Movies, the premier 24-hour first-run Chinese movie service in Asia and beyond, recently launched a “movement” to reignite the emotions of everyday Singaporeans so that they can truly feel what it means to be alive again. Dubbed the “Celestial Movement”, the philosophy of the movement is to watch more Chinese movies in order to tap one’s repressed anger, sorrow, happiness and joy. One of the first followers to join the movement is none other than the talented actress and director, Michelle Chong.
“All too often in life, we find ourselves caught up with work, family responsibilities and social commitments. We start to feel numb to our emotions to get through the day. That’s how I used to be. But now, thanks to the Celestial Movement, I can feel again. Every day I get life lessons, in the form of movies, which lets me feel the joy of happiness, the rush of anger and the depth of sorrow. I am finally alive again!” said Michelle Chong.
Michelle believes in the movement so much so that she is starring in five different video spots which started airing on pay TV and online during the Chinese New year holidays. Each spot represents a different emotion that Michelle was able to tap into, based on the movies appearing on Celestial Movies. In addition to the video spots and print ads, the movement could also be seen on-ground with movement “members” wandering around Raffles Exchange and Tampines looking to “recruit” followers. These members could be easily identified by their lavender tunics and their circular Celestial Movement badges. One could also easily tell them apart from everyday folks by the huge smiles on their faces and how emotional they got when talking about the movement. They also asked people to take the “emotion quiz”, a Facebook quiz created to detect the emotions that one is lacking.
Happiness | Anger | Sorrow | Joy
This tongue-in-cheek campaign, which runs until March 18, was created by Strategic Public Relations Group (SPRG) in collaboration with Celestial Movies. Find out for yourself which emotion you are lacking, by clicking the link here. For more information on the Celestial Movement, consumers can visit www.facebook.com/iLikeCM. Celestial Movies is available on StarHub (Ch. 868) and Singtel TV (Ch. 565).
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Media Contacts:
Lix Seow
Strategic Public Relations Pte Ltd for Celestial Tiger Entertainment
T: +65 6325 8232
M: +65 9751 4211
E: cte@sprg.com.sg
Gloria Kho
Strategic Public Relations Pte Ltd for Celestial Tiger Entertainment
T: +65 6325 8278
M: +65 9699 3321
E: cte@sprg.com.sg
About Celestial Tiger Entertainment
CELESTIAL TIGER ENTERTAINMENT (CTE) is a diversified media company dedicated to entertaining audiences in Asia and beyond. The company focuses on the operation of branded pay television channels, content creation and content distribution targeted at Asian consumers.
CTE operates a powerful bouquet of distinct pay television channels including: CELESTIAL MOVIES, the premier 24-hour first-run Chinese movie service in Asia and beyond; CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES, the gateway to an unparalleled array of Chinese movie masterpieces; cHK, a one-stop channel for cool, chic, and contemporary celebrity-powered Hong Kong entertainment; KIX, the ultimate destination for action entertainment; and THRILL, Asia’s only regional horror and suspense movie channel.
As one of Asia’s largest vertically integrated independent entertainment companies, CTE produces original content which complements its channels business. CTE is also the exclusive sales agent for Hollywood studio Lionsgate in Greater China and Southeast Asia, and represents Lionsgate’s television content and vast feature film library in Japan and Korea as well.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, CTE’s majority shareholders are Saban Capital Group, a leading private investment firm specializing in the media, entertainment and communications industries; Celestial Pictures, a major Asian entertainment company wholly-owned by Astro Overseas Limited; and Lionsgate, the world’s largest independent filmed entertainment studio.
For more information, please visit www.celestialtiger.com.
About Celestial Movies
CELESTIAL MOVIES (CM) the premier 24-hour first-run Chinese movie service in Asia and beyond, offering viewers the biggest stars and the biggest blockbusters. Through its partnerships with the most prolific and acclaimed Asian movie studios, CELESTIAL MOVIES is able to bring movie fans the latest Chinese and Asian box office hits first and exclusively. Tune in to CELESTIAL MOVIES to watch your favorite Chinese superstars: Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Jet Li, Stephen Chow, Donnie Yen and more! Broadcasting over 400 movies a year with 100% localized subtitles, only CELESTIAL MOVIES can bring you the latest hits and your all-time favorites.
For more information, please visit www.celestialmovies.com
March 6, 2015 – Subscribers using SingTel services will be able to make and receive calls via their home or office Wi Fi networks. According to the telecom operator, users will experience faster and seamless transfer between LTE and Wi Fi using the new technology.
“Wi-Fi calling allows operators to benefit from cost-efficient deployment of extended voice coverage and fast time-to-market,” said Nicholas Seow, Head of Ericsson Singapore and Brunei, according to a news release.
Read more at Nextelecom Asia
March 8, 2015 – Mr Tan Tong Hai, 51, has scored several firsts in his illustrious career of 26 years.
His most recent one – launching Singapore’s first and only free local sports pay-TV channel SuperSports Arena in 2010 – won the chief executive of StarHub the IT Leader of the Year award last night.
Read more at Asia One Business
Luxembourg, 6 March 2015: SES (NYSE Euronext Paris and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today announced the order of launch services from Arianespace for its new all-electric SES-15 satellite. It is the 41st launch service contract signed by SES with Arianespace. SES has also officially signed the contract for its new SES-14 satellite with Airbus Defence and Space. This order had already been announced on 16 February.
The signing ceremony for the two contracts was held at the headquarters of SES in Betzdorf in Luxembourg, under the high patronage of François Hollande, President of the French Republic, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, and Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg. The contracts were signed, respectively, by Martin Halliwelll, Chief Technology Officer of SES, Stéphane Israël, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and François Auque, Head of Space Systems at Airbus Defence and Space.
SES-15 will be launched on an Ariane 5 in the second quarter of 2017 from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s spaceport, in French Guiana. SES-15 will operate at the new orbital position of 129 degrees West for North America.
SES-14 will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2017 and will operate at 47.5/48 degrees West in order to address growth opportunities in dynamic markets, fast-growing commercial segments and thriving video services for the American continents and in the North Atlantic region.
Martin Halliwell, CTO of SES, stated: “For more than twenty-five years, Arianespace and SES have developed an exceptional partnership. Not only is SES-15 the 41st launch service contract signed with Arianespace, but it is also the second all-electrical satellite to be launched by Arianespace, following the announcement of the award of the launch contract of SES-12 in January 2015. The contracts with Arianespace and Airbus Defence and Space clearly demonstrate the important roles played for us by the European aerospace industry and French industry, with a view to realising our strategy and achieving our growth targets across all markets and sectors.”
Stéphane Israël further underlined that: “For the second time since the beginning of 2015, SES has chosen Arianespace to launch their satellites, both for the renewal and expansion of its fleet, with SES-12 and SES-15. These two all-electric satellites, the first in the SES fleet, confirm the technological developments underway in the communication satellite sector. The trust placed in Arianespace by SES demonstrates that Ariane 5 meets all resulting needs. Many thanks to SES for the new impetus that this 41st contract has injected into the partnership which has united us for more than 25 years. We are particularly proud to announce this contract in the presence of the highest authorities in both our countries.”
“SES-14, a particularly innovative satellite, is the second all-electric satellite that SES has ordered from us in less than a year, thus demonstrating once again its ability to adapt in a constantly evolving market,” said François Auque, Head of Space Systems at Airbus Defence and Space. “We are happy to make the best of our technological innovations available to them, at both payload and platform levels. With regard to SES-14, as with SES-12 ordered last July, the weight saved by the use of the electric propulsion has meant that a single satellite is capable of fulfilling two significant roles which would normally require two conventional satellites. SES-14 is the 12th Eurostar satellite ordered by SES at Airbus Defence and Space, nine of which are in operational service and two are still being built.”
About SES-14
SES-14 is a hybrid satellite offering wide beam coverage on C and Ku bands, as well as HTS (High Throughput Satellite) coverage on Ku and Ka bands on the American continent and the North Atlantic region. The satellite will operate entirely on electric propulsion and will be equipped with a plasma electric propulsion system for orbital insertion and for the execution of orbital manoeuvres. The electric propulsion system allows for a significant decrease in the weight of the satellite, thereby allowing for the transportation of heavier payloads. The new spacecraft will also offer a Digital Transparent Processor (DTP), thus increasing flexibility in terms of the payload and allowing for customised bandwidth solutions to be offered to SES clients.
The wide beams of the SES-14 satellite on the Ku band will offer increased capacities for video services distributed directly by the satellite (Direct-to-Home, DTH) and indirectly for cable networks (Direct-to-Cable) on the American continent. Lastly, this will allow for existing VSAT services to be supported on the two bands. Multiple spot beams on Ku and Ka bands will provide additional high-speed capacities ideally suited to the needs of high traffic data applications such as backhaul mobile, maritime and aeronautic services.
About SES-15
SES-15, with a launch mass of 2.3 tons, will be positioned 129 degrees West, a new orbital position to serve North America. The new satellite will carry a hybrid payload, offering additional wide beams on the Ku band, as well as HTS (High Throughput Satellite) capacities on Ku and Ka bands. The satellite will be equipped with an electric propulsion system for orbital insertion and for the executive of orbital manoeuvres. With a 15-year lifespan, this multi-purpose satellite will offer new capacities, coverage above the main airways throughout the American continents, and other applications used by governments, VSAT networks and the maritime sector.
For further information please contact:
Markus Payer
Corporate Communications
Telephone: +352 710725 500
markus.payer@ses.com
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About Arianespace
Arianespace is the world leader in launching satellites. Created in 1980, Arianespace provides its institutional and commercial clients with 3 launchers (Ariane, Soyuz and Vega) and now boasts more than 250 launches. Bolstered by the support of its 20 shareholders and the European Space Agency, Arianespace is the only operator in the world capable of launching all kinds of payloads from the Guiana Space Centre to all types of orbits. By 6 March 2015, 221 Ariane launches, 36 Soyuz launches (10 at the Guiana Space Centre and 26 in Baikonur with Starsem) and 4 Vega launches had been undertaken. The company, the headquarters of which are located in Evry, also has sites in Kourou (with the Kourou Establishment at the Guiana Space Centre), Washington, Tokyo and Singapore. For more information see: http://www.arianespace.com, http://www.arianespace.tv
About Airbus Defence and Space
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of the Airbus group which was formed by the consolidation of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military operations. This new division is the European leader in the space and defence industry, the global No 2 in the space industry and is one of the top ten global companies in the defence sector. With approximately 38 000 employees, it has an annual turnover of approximately EUR 13 billion. For more information see: www.airbusdefenceandspace.com
About SES
SES (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) is the world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of more than 50 geostationary satellites. The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators and business and governmental organisations worldwide. SES stands for long-lasting business relationships, high-quality service and excellence in the broadcasting industry. The culturally diverse regional teams of SES are located around the globe and work closely with customers to meet their specific satellite bandwidth and service requirements. SES holds a participation in O3b Networks, a next generation satellite network combining the reach of satellite with the speed of fiber. Further information under: www.ses.com.
– See more at: http://www.ses.com/4233325/news/2015/20737225#sthash.MglyL4y4.dpuf
March 5, 2015 – The initial results from the UK’s leading commercial broadcaster ITV were received well (pre-tax profits up 39 per cent to £605 million for the year). But now the analysts have had a chance to get their teeth into the numbers, and they have some concerns as to the state of play at ITV…
Read more at Advanced Television
