He was there for all the controversy surrounding the Beijing Olympics, winning an Asian TV award for his reporting.
"The Asian TV programmer doesn't care how many foreigners come in, " says Nicholas James, managing director of Media Asia, a Hong Kong production and distribution company.
And then there is the awkward fact that Asian TV viewers may not be likely to increase the amount of time they spend in front of the screen -- no matter how many more channels they can choose from.
The new company will include News Corp's Asian star TV company, its 37.5% stake in Britain's BSkyB, its south American assets and its stake in US interactive TV company GemStar.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is working with Asian suppliers to test several TV design concepts.
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By 2000 Murdoch was in charge of News Corp's Asian satellite business, Star TV, where he appeared to find his feet.
But who is going to be the dominant force in smart TV - the Asian hardware manufacturers, or the search firm which has already made its mark on the smartphone industry?
TV, his pan-Asian company, has proved a better source of love than of money.
That e-mail reach was demonstrated recently when the group put out a notice seeking Asian American actors for 30-second TV spots.
Mr Abe also told Japan's Nippon TV he wanted to deepen ties with Asian nations, including India and Australia, and to boost Japan's struggling economy.
This, in the end, may be the reason Google is letting go (and could also signal that Cisco will soon sell its own TV set top box unit) as Asian competitors may be turning set top boxes into commodities.
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The radio stations are a black urban music network, two stations based largely on the BBC archives (one music, one speech), the Asian Network, which currently broadcasts locally and via satellite TV boxes, and Five Live Sports Extra, bringing greater choice of sports, when matches clash.
In fact, Chinese companies like Changhong Electric are fast becoming leaders in the Smart TV field, recently announcing a partnership with San Francisco startup Flingo (a developer of Social TV apps) to better enable second screen engagement for Asian consumers.
International and pan-Asian broadcasters are based in Hong Kong, including News Corp's STAR TV.
Many TV-watchers mistakenly believed the Americans were protesting the fact that Asian exporters sell steel and other materials at below-production prices.
Every PC maker (HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba), every mobile phone producer (Samsung, LG, Nokia, Research In Motion, Sony Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE), every Asian network builder (Acer, Asus) and even the second largest seller of TV sets in the U.S. (Vizio) are planning to unveil new tablet models in 2011.
Sri Lanka also staged the Youth World Cup and Asian Test Championship during his term of office and he was also involved in negotiating lucrative TV contracts.
TV, for example but its brand is weaker than those of some Asian rivals, notably Matsushita (Panasonic) and Sony.
SINGAPORE Asian Pay Television Trust, an investment vehicle for one of Taiwan's biggest pay-TV operators, has secured commitments from as many as eight cornerstone investors to take up nearly a third of its planned Singapore initial public offering, people with knowledge of the deal said Wednesday.
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