Asia-Pacific News

Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), a global provider of cloud content services, has announced it will sponsor and participate at the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) Convention in Hong Kong from 29 October through 1 November. Established in 1991, CASBAA is the Association for digital multichannel TV, content, platforms, advertising and video delivery across [...]

Accedo, the leading enabler of Smart TV and IPTV applications, has announced that it has joined CASBAA, the association for digital pay TV, content, platforms, advertising, and video delivery across Asia. Accedo has recently expanded its already well-established Asian operations, in order to meet the growing market demand for interactive TV applications and platforms “We [...]

Asian pay-TV association CASBAA has congratulated Australian police for a dramatic raid on a pirate TV syndicate operating in Australia via high-capacity Internet servers based in China. The December 13 raid on the B&L LED Sign company in Hurstville, in the suburbs of Sydney, signaled the latest stage in a long term campaign to track [...]

CASBAA has joined the European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA), the Satellite Industry Association of (SIA) of the United States and the Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA) to express urgent global concern over proposed new international legislation, the Space Assets Protocol, sponsored by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) based in [...]

Members of the multichannel TV industry in the Asia Pacific have rallied to raise more than US$72,000 for Plan International Hong Kong. “We could not be more pleased with the generosity shown by individuals and organisations to support Plan International’s Early Childhood Care and Development Project benefitting underprivileged children in the Philippines,” said CASBAA CSR [...]

The 2011 CASBAA Convention has closed with high optimism at a time of rapidly altering business models and quick time technological change for TV services across the Asia Pacific.“The new models provide huge opportunity,” said Simon Twiston Davies, CEO, CASBAA, “while more than 420 million non-terrestrial TV connections are being logged across the region. Meanwhile, [...]

The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has released its Q4 update on trends in multichannel TV distribution, audience data and viewership which shows a 12% industry growth in the past 12 months in terms of connected homes and an increase in dual subscription homes as channel choices increase.“As we head towards the [...]

Reflecting the continued growth of Asia’s subscription TV market, CASBAA has added two new corporate members this month. CASBAA is an association dedicated to promoting multi-channel television via cable, satellite, broadband and wireless video networks across the Asia Pacific. CASBAA represents some 130 member organisations in the pay-TV business, which in turn serves more than [...]

The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced its partnership with the global children’s charity Plan International to give 5,657 needy children a chance at a better life in Masbate, one of the top 10 poorest provinces in the Philippines.Hunger, poor health and lack of basic education are the inevitable symptoms of [...]

CASBAA has announced that Nick Brien, Chairman & CEO of advertising giant McCann Worldgroup, will participate in an “In Conversation” session at the CASBAA Convention 2010 in Hong Kong on October 26th.Among the many areas covered in a “fireside chat” format at the CASBAA Convention 2010 will be the “Agency’s role in the new advertising [...]