What A Week, Episode #9 for the week of 6 January2020 is going to be a big year for the pay-TV biz in Asia – our bet is that at the end of it, there will be fewer channels run a lot leaner with more focus and a new normal where survivors take their rightful place in a much broader entertainment landscape. The New Year kicked off with veteran Sony execs Andy Kaplan and George Chien acquiring the Southeast/North Asia linear channels biz of Sony Pictures Television. What are they going to do with them? That's a wait and see.... for now, focus is on completing the deal, which will be a couple of months at least. Episode #9 of ContentAsia's What a Week – our headlines of the week in 60 seconds or less – also covers... . . George Chien Andy Kaplan Avi Himatsinghani Sandie Lee Airin Zainul Trina Tan iAhmad Izham Omar Janine Stein Malena Amzah Leah Gordon #contentasia #AstroMalaysia #StarHub #RewindNetworks #NipponTV #discoverychannel #nbcuniversal 2020

2020 is going to be a big year for the pay-TV biz in Asia – our bet is that at the end of it, there will be fewer channels run a lot leaner with more focus and a new normal where survivors take their rightful place in a much broader entertainment landscape. The New Year kicked off with veteran Sony execs Andy Kaplan and George Chien acquiring the Southeast/North Asia linear channels biz of Sony Pictures Television. What are they going to do with them? That's a wait and see.... for now, focus is on completing the deal, which will be a couple of months at least. Episode #9 of ContentAsia's What a Week – our headlines of the week in 60 seconds or less – also covers... .