Asia-Pacific News

One of the region’s foremost broadcasting engineers has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium in Malaysia. Erina Tobing is Director of Engineering at Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI), where she has worked for more than 30 years.Receiving the award in Kuala Lumpur, Ms Tobing said she felt “honoured, [...]

Technical Awards have taken center stage at ABU General Assembly with the inaugural ABU Green Broadcasting Award being won by Seon Kwon Kim, the Executive Managing Director on behalf of Korean Broadcasting System.The prize was presented by Choong Jin Kim, CEO and President of KOBA Show Korea, at an awards ceremony at the union’s 49th [...]

Broadcast Australia will be the Principal Sponsor of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s (ABU) Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2012, to be held in Kuala Lumpur on 6-9 March. The symposium, with the theme Decision Time for Stakeholders, is the eighth in a series of annual symposiums staged by the ABU to help radio and television broadcasters and [...]

Omnilab Media’s Ambience Entertainment, in partnership with Chocolate Liberation Front (CLF), recently announced the commencement of animation on the Australian animated TVseries The Adventures of Figaro Pho, by children’s illustrator and creator/director, Luke Jurevicius, at Iloura’s film and television VFX studio in Alexandria, NSW. Ambience Entertainment Producer, David Webster says, “This Australian series is a [...]

The Asia-Pacifc Broadcasting Union (ABU) is to honour David Wood, Deputy Director, Technology and Development, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), with a Distinguished Service Award. The award will be presented to him at the ABU Technical Committee meeting in New Delhi on 3 November.The ABU award has been bestowed on him for his outstanding contributions to [...]

T-VIPS, provider of video contribution and distribution solutions, has announced its membership of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) http://www.abu.org.my The ABU facilitates the development of broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific region and currently has over 208 members across 58 countries. “The ABU is a very important voice for the broadcasting industry in the Asia-Pacific region and we [...]

In March, an earthquake of a 9.0 magnitude triggered a massive tsunami in Sendai, the capital city of Miyagi prefecture in Japan. The destruction was catastrophic with tens of thousands dead, missing or displaced. GlobeCast Asia together with APTN and WARD deployed to Sendai almost immediately. According to Jay Sim and Mizuho Hikita, GlobeCast Asia’s [...]

The IABM announced that the Asia/Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and Malaysia’s Tun Abdul Razak Broadcasting and Information Institute (IPPTAR) are joint recipients of the 2010 IABM Tom McGann Training Award. The ABU and IPPTAR are being recognised for a new series of training courses designed to prepare Asian broadcast engineers for the technical realities of [...]

Broadcast Australia will be Principal Sponsor of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s (ABU) Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2011, to be held in Kuala Lumpur on 8-11 March. The Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium (DRM) will be a Major Sponsor of the 2011 Symposium.The symposium, with the theme Adding the 3rd Dimension, is the seventh in a series of [...]

News from the 47th annual meeting of the ABU General Assembly in Tokyo included a study of future sports broadcasting rights and a proposed Lifetime Achievement Award for sport. The event was hosted by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK. The ABU’s Director of Sport, John Barton, said the cost of broadcast rights was a problem for [...]