3 November 2014: Sony Pictures Television's networks business is making its biggest programming bets in Asia, with new general entertainment Sony Channel up and running from 15 October and lines around the block in cities all over Asia of would be stars queueing up to be part of the region's biggest

3 November 2014: When new factual channel Spark Asia goes up in early 2015, Malaysia's pay-TV platform Astro takes yet another step into a future that may be Malaysia-based but has a very definite global angle.Astro is backing the new pan-Asia/global documentary channel in partnership with Singapor

3 November 2014: At the beginning of this year, we launched a series of profiles and interviews with online/over-the-top (OTT) platforms in Asia – one in every issue of ContentAsia's pdf newsletter until they were all covered. How many were there across Asia? Seven? Eight? A dozen maybe?

3 November 2014: 68% of mainland viewers involved in an online entertainment format would give up sex rather than their internet connection. How does mainland Chinese online platform Tencent know this?

6 October 2014: Endemol Asia heads into the last quarter of 2014 with more than 45 series on air across the region (excluding India) and high expectations of besting 2013 revenues, which were double those of 2011.

6 October 2014: Kim Yu-mi doesn’t watch major television channels such as KBS, MBC or SBS as much as before. The 34-year-old Seoulite, who describes herself a “television show-gore”, instead watches cable networks. Kim says her television remote control has stayed on cable channels for a while now.