| | STAR Offloads Stake in Indian Producer | MUMBAI/HONG KONG, August 19: STAR is selling off the 25.99 percent it owns of Indian production house Balaji Telefilms (BTL), and is terminating its agreement to launch regional-language channels with the company, known for its string of hit Hindi-language serials.
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| ESS Renews TNA Wrestling Partnership | SINGAPORE, August 14: A new-long term contract has secured ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) as the exclusive broadcaster of TNA Wrestling content across the Indian subcontinent, covering TV, mobile and Internet platforms.
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| STAR Appoints Ad Sales VP for Japan | HONG KONG/TOKYO, August 7: Hiromu Iwamoto has been named STAR’s VP of advertising sales for Japan, where he will oversee advertising sales activities for the company’s regional office in Tokyo.
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| TEN Secures Two High-Profile New Series | SYDNEY, August 7: Australia’s TEN is set to air the spin-off of the hit ’90s drama Beverly Hills, 90210 from CBS Paramount International Television, as well as FremantleMedia Enterprises’ fantasy drama series Merlin.
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| Plans Unveiled for Asia Media Summit | HONG KONG, August 5: Twenty media companies in the Asia Pacific are set to participate in the upcoming Asia Media Summit, organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA), on September 8, with speakers from STAR, Yahoo! and Discovery Networks, among others.
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| RGM Establishes New Financing Facility | SINGAPORE, August 5: RGM Entertainment, a talent management and executive-production firm headquartered in Singapore, has set up a $400 million fund for English-language film and TV projects for the international market.
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| News Corp. Ramps Up Indian Investment | MUMBAI, August 4: News Corporation is planning to invest some $100 million on six new regional television stations in India, the company’s chairman and CEO, Rupert Murdoch, indicated while on a visit to Mumbai today.
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| ABU, KFF Align for HIV/AIDS Coverage | KUALA LUMPUR, July 31: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) has teamed up with the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) for a broadcast initiative to cover news from the International AIDS Conference, which will be held in Mexico City from August 3 to 8.
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| Profit Drops for Sony | TOKYO, July 30: First quarter net income at Sony Corporation dropped 47.4 percent to 35 billion yen ($323 million), on flat revenues of 1.98 trillion yen ($18.3 billion), dragged down in part by its Sony Ericsson mobile phone business.
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| UTV Earmarks $75 Million to Expand New-Media Business | MUMBAI, July 29: Announcing its first-quarter results today, India’s UTV Software Communications, partly owned by The Walt Disney Company, said it had set aside $75 million to expand its gaming business, including an investment in the mobile sector in the U.S.
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| Joost Expands to China | LONDON/NEW YORK/BEIJING/HONG KONG, July 23: Joost has aligned with the Chinese media company TOM Group to launch its Internet TV offering in China.
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| SingTel Clinches Disney, Warner Bros., Fox Deals | SINGAPORE, July 23: SingTel’s mio TV IPTV platform has clinched agreements with Disney-ABC International Television, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution that bring a host of top American series to subscribers as early as a day after their U.S. broadcast.
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| MediaCorp Sells Chinese Drama Package | SINGAPORE, July 22: MediaCorp Studios has sold 95 hours of Chinese drama to Guangdong Southern Film & TV Programs (Guangdong Southern), its single largest volume sale to a TV content buyer this year.
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| MediaCorp in Anime Deal | SINGAPORE, July 21: Singaporean broadcast group MediaCorp has inked a deal with anime distributor Odex to bring a range of Japanese titles to its Arts Central channel and to the new online service AnimeTrix, available through its VOD portal MOBTV.sg.
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