Welcome to News Views, CASBAA’s news round-up culled from sources across the industry for the week ending Oct 9th. Curated by CASBAA, News Views keeps you in the loop. We always value your feedback, so tell us what you think!
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Bloomberg Media has announced two key appointments in its latest executive reshuffle with Gary Groenheim taking up the position of head of partnerships for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the appointment of Hannah Musisi from CNN International.
Groenheim moves over form his Hong Kong post as commercial director of Bloomberg Television for Asia Pacific and will focus on launching and managing new media partnerships, as well as building relationships with existing partners. He is also expected to develop localised television, digital, print and radio content partnerships with companies ranging from start-ups to global media companies. The first task in his new role will be to launch Bloomberg TV Bulgaria later this month through an extended partnership with Bulgaria On Air.
Read more at the Drum
Eric Mika has joined LeTV as senior VP of open ecosystems, strategic alliances and partnerships, a key role for the Chinese company as it steps up its global expansion.
Based in New York, Mika joins as LeTV is rolling out hardware and content offerings later this fall with the U.S. launch of its digital storefront, LeMall.
Founded in November 2004 by Jia Yueting, LeTV Group is dedicated to offering consumers streaming content across a wide range of devices–even including electric cars. Users can access a vast library of LeTV-owned and partner-distributed movies, TV shows and streaming video.
Read more at Variety
Oct 7 Sports fans in the Indian subcontinent will be spoilt for choice after Indian Premier League (IPL) rights holder Multi Screen Media (MSM) and sports broadcaster ESPN announced plans on Wednesday to launch new channels and foray into digital market.
ESPN, a Walt Disney unit, exited India in 2012 after a split with Rupert Murdoch-owned Star TV, which owns the rights to cricket-crazy India’s home international matches and domestic tournaments, excluding the annual IPL Twenty20 competition.
Read more at Reuters
Turner Broadcasting is quietly preparing a new digital content venture based on a brand the Time Warner division shuttered seven years ago after a short-lived run.
Super Deluxe, which launched in 2006 as an online hub for original short-form comedy, is the title of a new operation in the early stages of development, according to sources. A rep for Turner declined to comment.
Read more at Variety
Viacom 18’s kids cluster is gearing up for some game changing moves. In a first for the Indian market, Nickelodeon will launch a kids channel in high definition called Nick HD+, which will showcase the best of local and international content.
Nick HD+ will soon be available on all cable and direct to home (DTH) platforms in the country. Nick HD+ content will be curated from the best of Nick’s offerings across the board, which includes special ‘never seen before’ episodes of Dora The Explorer and Sponge-bob Squarepants. Some of the network’s international shows such as Marvin Marvin will also be introduced to India through Nick HD+.
Read more at Indian Television
Twenty-three years ago to this date, one man changed the face of Indian television forever.
We’re talking about none other than the czar of television in India – Dr Subhash Chandra, who began beaming Zee TV on 2 October, 1992 as the first Hindi language cable channel in India.
Read more at Indian Television
Every year bees contribute over £106.2 billion to the global economy; coral over £6.1 trillion; plankton over £138.7 billion and beavers almost £500 million. These figures were released today by BBC Earth in a pilot model for an Earth Index that demonstrates the financial contribution that nature makes to the world economy every year.
BBC Earth published the Earth Index in the financial sections of the Wall Street Journal (US); Times (London); Singapore Business Times (Singapore) and the Economic Times (India) putting nature on the stock exchange for the first time.
Neil Nightingale, Creative Director for BBC Earth commented: “When you see the figures in black and white it’s illuminating to see that the annual revenues of the world’s most successful companies, Apple; General Motors; Nestle; Bank of China* all pale in comparison to the financial return to our economy from natural assets.”
The Earth Index was devised to place nature at the heart of economic conversation by understanding the financial value of the services we receive each year from natural resources. To create the Earth Index, BBC Earth worked with British environmental specialist Tony Juniper to commission a scoping study from the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
“We scoured the available research and data to find comparable figures to company stock listings and settled on the financial value delivered each year,” said Juniper. “What this unequivocally shows is the major contribution that nature makes to our health, wealth and security.”
Nightingale added: “By recognising the practical and economic benefits that we derive from natural assets we can better understand the impact of long term changes in natural capital.”
BBC Earth’s ‘nature stock exchange’ is based on a study of the existing available data and the Earth Index pilots a model for reporting the financial contribution that nature makes to the global economy. To find out more and view the source material visit: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/cost-the-earth-sources.
“Embarking on this study revealed the paucity of consistent information available about the financial importance of nature to our society,” said Nightingale. “Our review of the existing research has shown us how vital the ecological economy is to us – and yet there are no consistent measures for natural capital. Nature of course has an intrinsic value over and above its monetary contribution. But what the nature stock exchange shows is that its economic importance cannot be ignored.”
To accompany the Earth Index, BBC Earth has created ‘Cost the Earth’, an interactive feature that challenges people to guess the value of global companies such as Starbucks compared to natural assets such as Otters or commodities such as Diamonds. To play the game and find out more about BBC Earth’s ‘nature stock exchange’ visit: www.bbc.com/earth.
Examples of the services that we receive from natural assets include:
Coral
Valued at £6,187,500,000,000
Coral reefs provide vital protection from storms; support multi-million pound tourism industries; capture and store carbon and are nurseries for the young of commercially important fish species.
Bees
Valued at £106,250,000,000
Bees are vital to crop pollination worldwide. In Maoxian county in Sichuan China, fruit farmers now perform this job themselves, hand pollinating their crops following the loss of their natural pollinators in the 1980s.
Vultures
Once valued at £1,634,615,385
We understand the financial value of vultures after their sharp decline in India brought to light the vital service they performed in cleaning and removing animal carcasses. Their decline created a public health risk due to remains being left to rot and generated significant costs for the communities who had to pay for carcasses to be disposed.
Beavers
Valued at £497,500,000
An individual beaver was valued at £80,487.72 per year** for the contribution they make to flood risk reduction; enhanced water purity and improved water storage through building dams and other structures that change the environment in ways that can benefit people.
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Jeanne Leong
Communications Director, BBC Worldwide Asia
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Email: Jeanne.Leong@bbc.com
Gladys Sim
Senior Executive, Communications, BBC Worldwide Asia
Tel: +65 6849 5295
Email: Gladys.Sim@bbc.com
Singapore, 17th September 2015: The curtain fell on the annual Sports Matters conference at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Maurizio Barbieri of Samsung, said: “This is a time of change in the sports industry and we are excited and proud to be driving this period of growth. We have seen new players entering the market these past two years and there will be more coming in over the next two years. We continue to have high hopes for the industry and Sports Matters remains the destination event for the business of sport.”
The content-rich programme ended with two overriding messages for the industry: Be here, and connect with your fans. Much of the talk on Day Two centred on China and it’s coming of age. Hang Yu, Vice President Sports, LeTV Sports delivered a powerful and honest appraisal of the recent changes in his market: “There is no doubt that the sports industry in China is booming however the most important thing for LeTV is to get more people to participate in sports whether they watch online video content or attend events. We need to solidify a foundation of sports fans.”
This was recognised by those outside China too. Andrew Georgiou, CEO, World Sport Group acknowledged that “Everyone’s been talking about China for 20 years and here we are… and we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Sports Matters mission statement is to create the foundation for a sustainable Asian sports industry. The gathered speakers reminded the attendees to keep this in mind as the two days progressed: Is it sustainable?
Right from the outset, opening keynote speaker Zubin Gandevia, President, Asia Pacific & Middle East, FOX International Channels commented: “The issue is not so much whether the Asian sports industry is sustainable, but it’s more about how we can work together to optimise the massive potential it has. That’s the beauty of being at a nascent stage with so much momentum”
Sports Matters will be back in 2016. For the latest information: www.sportsmatters.asia
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BBC Worldwide plans to reboot its foreign over-the-top ambitions once it has built out support for registered sign-ins, according to BBC director of audiences Nick North.
iPlayer across four screens light backgroundSpeaking at MIPCOM here in Cannes, North said that the BBC’s commercial arm was looking to “review” its OTT stance – after formally shutting down its Global iPlayer on-demand initiative earlier this year – and was looking to add similar functionality to the UK ‘myBBC’ initiative abroad.
Read more at tbivision
