Asia-Pacific News

Recently when MNC Channels, the in-house playout centre for Indonesia’s biggest satellite pay TV operator Indovision, required an upgrade of their automation, storage and video server capabilities they turned to Magna Systems and Engineering.MNC Channels began operations in 2007 playing out one international and two local channels using Pebble Beach Systems Neptune automation control of [...]

Global TV, one of Indonesia’s biggest private national TV stations whose 24/7 broadcasts can be picked up by over 110 million viewers in 142 cities each day including Greater Jakarta, Medan, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, and Yogyakarta, recently purchased and installed a new Artec XBL-Broadcast Logger video logging system from Magna Systems and Engineering.Magna Systems and [...]

IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Cinema 21, Indonesia’s largest exhibitor, has announced an agreement to install eight IMAX theatres throughout Indonesia, bringing to 10 the exhibitor’s total IMAX commitment. Cinema 21 currently has an IMAX theatre open in Gandaria City, South Jakarta, and another slated to open in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta. “Due [...]

Bittree, a manufacturer of high-quality audio and video patching systems, has announced that PT Indonesia Media Televisi (IMTV) has equipped its direct to home (DTH) facility with a suite of 53 Bittree video and audio patchbays. Launching this month, IMTV is a new Indonesian DTH television service that is broadcasting 150 SD and HD channels [...]

Media Nusantara Citra (MNC) is the largest Indonesian media company, founded in 1997 and currently owned 70% by PT Global Mediacom TBK Group. MNC’s significant content library is the largest in Indonesia, comprising entertainment and news content collected – with an increasing rate of more than 10,000 hours per year- from in-house produced content (movies, [...]

Taking a detour around Jakarta’s traffic congestion, Indonesian 24-hour news channel Metro TV has launched a fleet of motorcycle newsgathering teams employing several TVUPack TM8100 3G/4G mobile broadcasting backpacks from Magna Systems and Engineering. The station, established in 2000, now has over 53 transmission sites all over Indonesia and focuses on news and current affairs [...]

French international news channel FRANCE 24 has concluded a series of new distribution agreements, allowing the channel to strengthen its worldwide distribution in Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia. In Myanmar, FRANCE 24 English version has just launched on the new IPTV network Skynet (channel 45), allowing the channel to be available to 50 000 [...]

Bloomberg Television announced the formation of a partnership in Indonesia with the Idea Group, a Jakarta-based media and strategic communication holding company, that will see the launch of Bloomberg Television Indonesia in early 2013. Presented in the local language Bahasa Indonesia, Bloomberg Television Indonesia will bring Bloomberg’s news, alongside locally-produced content, to the world’s fourth [...]

Etere, the developer of software solutions for media producers, has announced that Kompas TV, the Indonesian television network, has chosen Etere MERP system to improve the existing news workflow for its channel.Etere integrates Kompas news workflow with its ENPS system via MOS protocol with a MAM-based platform and comprehensive newsroom computer system that includes fully [...]

According to unconfirmed reports in Jakarta Globe, Indonesia’s Bakrie Group is planning to sell its television network ANTV so it can repay debt and boost finances at its main business, the coal-mining operations held by Bumi Resources. An unnamed source said talks were at a preliminary stage and that ANTV may be sold to Surya [...]