Asia-Pacific Broadcasting (APB) July 2018 Volume 35, Issue 6

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NEWS & VIEWS
July 2018
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NEWS & VIEWS
W O R L D I N B R I E F
Preserve C-band for
satellite services
Amazon continues
football drive
MADRID – After successfully
acquiring streaming rights to 20
matches of the 2019/20 English
Premier League, Amazon is re-
portedly eyeing to do the same
for La Liga, Spain’s top profes-
sional football league.
TRAI rolls out
new regulations
NEW DELHI – India’s Telecom
Regulatory Authority (TRAI)
has introduced a raft of new
rules and regulations, which set
out how addressable systems
must be used. Also covered are
60-day reporting rules where
multiple-system operators must
state their pricing structures
and genre of channels carried.
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MANAGEMENT
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DISTRIBUTION
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Blockchain changing paradigm
of content acquisition
by shawn liew
SINGAPORE – Blockchain will
revolutionise how the world’s data
is stored, declared Ben Flint, chief
operating officer of Vuulr, a global
marketplace and digital supply
chain platform for the TV and film
content industry.
He told APB: “Data will no
longer be owned by any one com-
pany’s server, but maintained on a
decentralised network.
“In the context of the media
world, data relating to issues such
as rights transactions, metadata,
contractual availability and au-
dience ratings will all have one
version of the truth that sits on an
open ledger — obviating the need
Ben Flint
(right), chief
operating
officer of
Vuulr: “In
combination
with other
technologies,
blockchain
can add
exponential
physical
efficiencies
— in terms of
data storage
— and
emotional support in the form of trust
in the data that it stores.”
to trust any one company.”
According to Vuulr, US$240 bil-
lion is spent annually by broadcast-
ers and over-the-top (OTT) services
TORONTO – The World Broad-
casting Union (WBU) has called
on satellite service providers
and government regulators to
protect the availability of the
upper part of C-band spectrum
for satellite services, which is cur-
rently used to provide multiple
broadcast services.
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on acquiring film, TV, sports and
e-sports content. However, around
40% of that value can be lost to the
cost and friction of the transaction.
At ConnecTechAsia 2018 held
in Singapore last month, Flint gave
a presentation entitled Crea­ting
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Disruptive technologies pose
challenges & possibilities
by shirish nadkarni
S Iswaran, Singapore’s Minister of Communications and
Information: “[The advent of disruptive technologies] has created
many new possibilities for our people, our business and our
economies. The challenge is to navigate this new digital terrain
successfully for mutual benefit.”
SINGAPORE – “The advent of disrup-
tive technologies has revolutionised the
global economy, altered industries and
business models, and changed the nature
of jobs. However, it has also created many
new possibilities for our people, our busi-
ness and our economies.
“The challenge is to navigate this
new digital terrain successfully for
mutual benefit,” said S Iswaran, Singa-
pore’s Minister of Communications and
Information, at the opening ceremony of
ConnecTech­Asia2018 held in the republic
last month.
The minister pointed out that South-
east Asia has a growing middle class
and a population of 630 million people,
more than half of whom were under the
age of 30 and actively contributing to
the remarkable growth in the region’s
Internet economy.
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