Thailand’s True Group is making a play for Southeast Asia’s on-demand audiences, adding even more streaming activity to the regional frenzy and hanging another heavy load of hopes, dreams and ambition on, among others, Indonesia’s population of 274 million.

A new suite of curated specialty channels is ramping up activity in Asia, filling a gap in ad-supported digital terrestrial strategies, supporting genre-specific demands on streaming platforms, and with pay/subscription options a possibility rather than a necessity.

Singapore platform StarHub and Disney-owned Fox Networks Group (FNG) appear to have reached an agreement that keeps a bouquet of about 20 channels on air for current subscribers to StarHub’s old IPTV platform.

Distributors across Asia are loving and/or loathing their new realities, telling ContentAsia that while some platforms in the region are scrambling to fill slates with acquisitions while original production restarts, others have retreated behind their masks, pulling the covers o

Media Partners Asia’s latest data shows a tilt toward streaming in Asia, a still-powerful free-TV environment, and a content-spend bubble that is unlikely to last.   

Still reeling from the decision that wiped a major broadcast platform off the Philippines terrestrial free-TV map, local creators and talent are staring into an abyss that has for many – particularly in sports and current affairs – replaced their livelihoods and left a gaping hold where their pro