Indonesia - Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Asia announced a three-year renewal of Nickelodeon's branded block package with one of MNC Media's subsidiaries PT Global Informasi Bermutu, popularly known as Global TV. The package includes...

Nielsen, the TV-tracking firm, confirmed today that Twitter chatter isn’t all hot air. In a study, Twitter buzz showed a strong relationship to actual TV ratings. “While our study doesn’t prove causality, the correlation we uncovered is signifi...

PAY-TV wants to put its foot down on rising content costs. But it may find content providers are inured to its stomping. A number of major pay-TV providers have publicly joined the chorus in recent weeks, protesting programming costs that are risin...

  The focus for FOX International Channels in Asia has been on building up its premium services.   This included the launch of the FOX Movies Premium (FMP) and STAR Chinese Movies (SCM) Play services, the rebranding of STAR Chinese Movies 2...

Deloitte's seventh edition of the State of the Media Democracy survey revealed a 160-percent growth in the number of digital omnivores, consumers who own a trio of tablets, smartphones and laptops.   This accounts from more than a quarter o...

Twitter has been identified as one of three statistically significant variables to align with TV ratings, in addition to prior-year rating and ad spend.    Research from Nielsen and SocialGuide shows a correlation between Twitter and TV ratings, driv...

The Style Network is getting a brand refresh with a new logo, on-air look and tagline in Asia and around the world.   The new tagline is: Watch It. Love It. Style It. The refresh goes live on April 1, following on from the North American refresh in mid...

3D TV – at least the version that requires glasses – is “dead”, while 4K TV is highly unlikely to succeed, according to Bob Zitter, executive vice-president and chief technology officer, HBO. Zitter, who is due to retire in a week, told attende...

Global advertsing is to increase 3.7% this year and 5% in 2014, by which time digital advertising will achieve 20% market share, according to Carat’s latest global ad spend forecast. ...

The amount of buzz a TV show gets on Twitter directly correlates to audience figures, according to a new study by research firm Nielsen. ...