HBO Asia will air the second season of Dwayne Johnson sports comedy, Ballers. HBO original programming chief Michael Lombardo announced the renewal in the U.S. on 10 July. Season one aired in Asia at the same time as the U.S. with a same-day prime-time encore.

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.