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Asian pay television channel

Television channel

AXN (Asia)
AXN logo (2015).svg
Country Singapore
Broadcast area
    • Southeast Asia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, Maldives, Palau, Sri Lanka (as AXN Asia)
    • Taiwan (as AXN Taiwan)
Headquarters Number 10, Changi Business Park Central 2 #03-01, Hansapoint @ Changi Business Park, Changi, Singapore
Language(s) English
Malay
Indonesian
Vietnamese
Picture format 1080i HDTV
Owner KC Global Media Asia
Sister channels Animax
ONE
GEM
Launched 21 September 1997 (1997-09-21)
Closed 29 March 2021 (SD Feed, Malaysia)
Website

AXN is a pan-Asian pay television channel owned by KC Global Media Asia based in Singapore. It primarily airs action, police procedural, and reality shows. The network was formerly wholly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, but were later sold to KC Global Media in January 2020.[1]

Programming[edit]

AXN primarily airs American and British shows (including selected shows from Sony Pictures Television, as well as third-party content from CBS Studios International, NBCUniversal Television and Fremantle), with new episodes airing on the same day after their U.S. telecast. The channel also airs original programming specifically made for Southeast Asian viewers, as well as Hollywood box office movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia and TriStar) was officially formal and full launched on 13 June 2021 after successfully completes its first movie transmission from Singapore with Killshot and successfully completes its first movie transmission from its regional headquarters at Changi Business Park, Singapore with Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park on 20 and 27 June 2021.

Anime programming[edit]

Upon its launch, in the late 1990s and early 21st century, AXN used to broadcast several anime series, many of them in Japanese audio with English subtitles and held annual anime festivals around Southeast Asia.[2][3] Its anime programming would later be moved to Animax Asia in 2004, the preparations for which Sony had been planning since the late 1990s.[3] In the last quarter of 2010, selected English-dubbed anime programs from Animax Asia were broadcast during mornings and late-afternoon. This feed was then made available in the Philippines only, but was discontinued in August 2016 as AXN would focus on its main programming.[citation needed]

Original productions[edit]

Current[edit]

  • AXN Southeast Asia (Panregional feed reaching most countries in the region)
  • AXN Japan
  • AXN Korea (joint venture with CU Media. Airs Local shows along with international shows)
  • AXN Philippines (separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements, and movies)
  • AXN Taiwan (Different from Asian Feed)

Defunct[edit]

There are two feeds for the channel. One is aimed at viewers in Hong Kong and Thailand only, while the other one is aimed towards the rest of the region. Programming on both feeds are the same, with the exception of local advertisement and promo timings. This is also the case with the Philippine feed, which sometimes modifies its own programming due to broadcast issues.

AXN first launched its high-definition feed in Korea on 1 March 2009 and was later made available in Singapore on StarHub TV on 25 May 2010.[12] In Malaysia, it was launched on 16 June 2010 on Astro and NJOI.[13] In Thailand it was launched on 12 July 2011 on TrueVisions and in India it was made availave on Videocon D2H on 19 July 2014. It premiered in Sri Lanka on Dialog TV 2013. In the Philippines it was launched on 20 April 2015 on SkyCable, Sky Direct, Cignal and Singtel TV in Singapore.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Littleton, Cynthia (January 7, 2020). “Sony Pictures Sells Asia Channels to Former Executives Andy Kaplan and George Chien (EXCLUSIVE)”. Variety. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Magz Ozbourne (2007-12-01). “AXN – Evolution”. Television Asia. Archived from the original on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
  3. ^ a b Michael Flagg (2000-09-27). “Singapore’s AXN Cable Channel Brings Action to Stagnant Market”. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
  4. ^ “The Amazing Race Asia is back after six years”. The New Paper. 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  5. ^ Donato, Jerry. “Born to play on The Apprentice Asia”. philstar.com. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  6. ^ “Asia’s Got Talent Season 2 premiere topped ratings in Singapore”. Asian Television Awards. 2017-10-24. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  7. ^ ‘Reality television is here to stay’
  8. ^ The Duke at Telebisyon.net Archived February 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ e Buzz at Telebisyon.net Archived January 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Sony Style website Archived March 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ AXN Ultimate Escape Archived October 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ AXN HD in Singapore Archived May 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ AXN HD in Malaysia Archived June 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

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