Hong Kong’s Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) adds live TV coverage of Mark Six draws from 1 August. The new deal with the Hong Kong Jockey Club also gives TVB rights to next season’s race meetings.

Hong Kong-based Asian channel operator, Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), is launching its first dedicated over-the-top (OTT) linear channel feed.

CNN and TV18 are calling it quits on their 10-year licensing deal for Indian news channel CNN IBN from January 2016.

Two of India’s English-language news majors are slugging it out in a battle for the small but influential English-language news market. Their most powerful current weapon is dual frequencies on pay-TV platforms. But the cost is high, and there’s some doubt over how long they can keep it up.

Traditional media’s influence in four Asian markets – Afghanistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan – has not waned as a result of social media, delegates at Deutsche Welle’s (DW) Global Media Forum (22-24 June 2015) in Bonn were told.

Ferdinand Habsburg’s Da Vinci Media has tied up with Indian TV veterans Raghav Bahl and Ritu Kapur’s digital platform, The Quint, to launch a joint venture edutainment television channel for India.