SINGAPORE – 25 February 2016 – The season four premiere of HISTORY’s critically acclaimed scripted drama series Vikings pummeled the competition on Friday night, as the #1 show in its timeslot beating all English language cable channels in Singapore, Malaysia (excluding Movies and Sports channels) and the Philippines (excluding Kids channels).

Singapore saw an increase of +320% Cable 15+ viewers, Malaysia drew in 218% more viewers aged 15+, while the Philippines brought in 644% more 25+ ABC1 audience on its debut night, all more than its prime time average.

The new season of Vikings will introduce its first Asian character, “Yidu”, who will play a pivotal role in the series. Asian-Canadian actress Dianne Doan joins the stellar cast as “Yidu”, the mysterious slave who fascinates Viking chieftain Ragnar.

Vikings season four airs as a same day telecast with the United States, every Friday at 10pm on HISTORY (StarHub TV Channel 401).

Source: Kantar Media, Singapore, Kantar Media, Malaysia DTAM, Kantar Media, Urban Philippines. Vikings S4 Premiere Episode 1 timeslot on 19 February 10pm-11pm (SG/MY), 9pm-10pm (PH). HISTORY Prime average based on period 6pm-12mn (SG/PH) 1 Jan 2015-21 Feb 2016/20 Feb 2016 (MY)

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26 Feb, 2016 – French international news channel France 24 will launch a Spanish language version in 2017, French President Francois Hollande announced during his State visit to Argentina.

Already broadcast in French, English and Arabic, the Spanish feed will specifically target viewers in Latin America. At launch, it will offer six hours daily in Spanish, with additional content in French. The editorial line will tend to bring a French eye on international issues and regional topics.

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26 Feb, 2016 – AMC Networks has reported financial results for the full year and fourth quarter ended December 31st 2015.

President and Chief Executive Officer Josh Sapan said: “2015 was a successful year for our company. Our strategy of creating compelling original, high-quality programming continues to deliver strong financial results, including double digit increases in revenue and adjusted operating cash flow. We premiered three new AMC original series, Fear the Walking Dead, Better Call Saul and Into the Badlands, all of which broke ratings records. We received widespread critical praise and industry honours for our television and film content. We continued to build and expand our international business into key markets across Europe and Latin America.”

Fourth quarter net revenues increased 11.4 per cent, or $70 million, to $679 million over the fourth quarter of 2014, led by 12.5 per cent growth at National Networks and an increase of $9 million at International and Other.

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Munich, 26 February 2016 – SES Platform Services GmbH (SES PS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES S.A.
(NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announces an agreement whereby RR
Media (NASDAQ: RRM), a leading provider of global digital media services to the broadcast and media
industries, will merge its operations with those of SES PS, to create a world-leading global media solutions
provider.

SES will pay a consideration of USD 13.291 per share to acquire a 100% interest in RR Media. The
consideration corresponds to an Enterprise Value of USD 242 million, which will be funded from the group’s
existing financial resources. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals, which are expected to be
completed in Q2/Q3 2016.

RR Media provides scalable, converged digital media services to more than 1,000 media companies globally.
Every day, the company manages and delivers over 24,000 hours of broadcast content, over 4,000 hours of
online video and VOD content and over 350 hours of premium sports and live events including major global
sporting events such as the Super Bowl and the FIFA World Cup. RR Media provides coverage for over 95% of
the world’s population, reaching viewers of multi-platform TV operators and populating content to over 100
Video-on-Demand (VoD) platforms, as well as delivering content to online video and Direct-to-Home (DTH)
services.

By providing a complete range of digital media services, RR Media enables the richest possible user
experience, expands audience reach and increases monetisation capabilities for its customers. The company’s
services cover four main areas: global content distribution network with an optimised combination of
satellite, fibre and the Internet; content management and playout services; management and delivery of
premium sports, news and live events around the world; and other advanced online video services. This
state-of-the-art offering supports the diverse service requirements of some of the world’s leading media
companies, broadcasters and content rights owners holders including the BBC, Disney, Fox, IMG, ITV, MP
Silva, NFL, and Viacom. RR Media operates from four principal media centres (in Bucharest, London,
Pennsylvania and Tel Aviv).

On completion of the transaction, RR Media and SES PS will be combined to create a new, stand-alone worldleading
media services provider, offering full continuity and enhanced service to their existing customers. With
a comprehensive range of innovative video and media solutions on a global scale, the new organisation will
focus on offering its customers highly optimized content management and distribution solutions that utilize the
combined network of SES PS and RR Media leveraging their multiple satellite positions as well as a large fibre
network and the Internet, in order to maximise audience reach and add monetisation capabilities.

Wilfried Urner, Chief Executive Officer of SES Platform Services, commented: “RR Media has
successfully developed the capability to manage and deliver premium content effectively, helping its customers
to reach a global audience over multiple satellite, cable TV, IPTV, online and mobile platforms. SES, as the
largest global platform for video in terms of reach and channels, adds global scale and considerable insights
from the successful development of SES PS in Europe.”

Ferdinand Kayser, Chairman of SES Platform Services, added: “This is an exciting acquisition and an
important milestone in the execution of SES’s differentiated strategy focused on Globalisation, Verticalisation
and Dematuring. The addition of RR Media further accelerates the globalisation of SES’s services businesses,
establishing a world-leading next generation video and media service provider.”

Avi Cohen, Chief Executive Officer of RR Media said: “SES Platform Services is an important industry
player with the capabilities to service strong upper tier clients. With the combined infrastructure and industry
expertise, the integrated company will have the capability to deliver innovative solutions to top tier clients,
emerging markets and global customers. RR Media’s growth strategy has focused on top tier client and
increasing scale. This deal achieves both of these strategic goals.”

25 Feb, 2016 – Measat has announced the appointment of Dr. Edmund Kong as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.

Kong will focus on developing Measat’s long term technology strategy. He will be responsible for understanding technology trends in the satellite and communication sectors, and in developing opportunities for the Malaysian comms satellite operator,.

“This is an exciting time for the communications and broadcasting industries, with technology change creating many new challenges and opportunities,” said Kong. “To be able to meet our customers’ needs moving forward, and continue to develop the business, it is important that we understand how technologies are likely to evolve and how we can benefit from them.”

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LUXEMBOURG, 25 February 2016 – SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange:
SESG), one of the world’s leading satellite operators, and Panasonic Avionics announced today two
major, multi-year, High Throughput Satellite (HTS) capacity agreements serving aeronautical, maritime,
and oil and gas markets across the Americas.

Panasonic Avionics is a leading provider of inflight entertainment and connectivity systems. These
contracts, for SES-14 and SES-15, represent their highest bandwidth commitment to date of highpowered
HTS spot beam and wide beam Ku-band capacity. SES’s HTS coverage will enable airlines to
offer next-generation inflight Wi-Fi and live television services to passengers travelling on air routes
throughout the Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Panasonic
Avionics will also utilize the HTS capacity to serve growing maritime markets and oil and gas operations
throughout the region.

“These major agreements are another step-change in the highly dynamic and buoyant aeronautical
connectivity market,” said Ferdinand Kayser, Chief Commercial Officer of SES. “Our new high throughput
satellites, SES-14 and SES-15, are poised to dramatically change the airline passenger experience and
introduce a new era of inflight connectivity. SES-14 and SES-15 are designed for mobility; they are able
to dynamically tailor power allocation and bandwidth to maximize capacity. This enables delivery to
aircraft across different geographies and time zones. The design allows for easy transition from one
region to another, from one gateway to another, and from one satellite to the other. The unique designs of
both satellites include video broadcast beams which complement the spot beams, maximizing throughput
for Internet and video streaming traffic. Both satellites will be launched in 2017.”

David Bruner, Vice President of Global Communications Services at Panasonic Avionics said, “With our
communications service expanding rapidly across several vertical markets, we are always looking for
innovative high throughput satellite designs that help us deliver the best connectivity service to our
customers. Working with SES, it was clear that their SES-14 and SES-15 satellites were the best option
for us to supplement our existing HTS capabilities and ensure a true broadband experience over the U.S.,
Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Given their vision and conviction, Panasonic is very excited to
collaborate with SES, and we look forward to offering these ultra-high throughput services to our air
transport, business aviation, oil and gas, energy and maritime markets in 2017.”

24 Feb, 2016 – Warner Bros. has entered an agreement to acquire DramaFever, a U.S.-based company that operates subscription and on-demand video services, from SoftBank.

DramaFever offers hundreds of series, variety shows, films and kids’ programs, in multiple languages, and is available in more than 20 countries globally and growing. The service joins Time Warner’s company-wide efforts to reach audiences directly, including the recent acquisition of iStreamPlanet and the launch of SVOD services with HBO NOW in the U.S., and, in partnership with Tencent, Hollywood VIP in China.

DramaFever will continue to operate under that consumer-facing brand and be based in New York.

Read more at World Screen

25 Feb, 2016 – NBCUniversal is expanding its programmatic media product by launching NBCUx for linear TV.

Advertisers can use data and automation to build media plans that include premium linear TV inventory across NBCUniversal’s entire portfolio of cable and broadcast entertainment networks.

Currently only a select group of advertisers, and their agency partners, will be able to reach their target consumers by developing media plans via a private exchange using a combination of their own data, third party data sources and NBCUniversal’s television inventory.

Read more at Marketing-Interactive

23 Feb, 2016 – Star India is all set for the Asia Cup, which kick-starts on 24 February and has roped in as many as 13 sponsors for the same.

The 50-over cricket format in today fast paced age is fading into oblivion with T-20 gaining prominence as a preferred format. The Asia Cup cricket tournament, which was rolled out by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in 1983 as a goodwill between Asian countries, will have its 16th edition in Bangladesh. The tournament faced its own set of challenges time and again as it fell prey to the political inconsistencies between India and Pakistan.

Read more at Indian Television