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AXN (Asia)

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Launched
  
21 September 1997

Country
  
Singapore

Owner
  
Sony Pictures

Slogan
  
Action REDefined

Motto
  
Action REDefined

Founded
  
1997


Network
  
Sony Pictures Television

Owned by
  
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Picture format
  
480i SDTV 4:3 aspect ratio 1080i and 4K UHD Broadcast HDTV 16:9 aspect ratio

Nominations
  
International Emmy Award for best Non-Scripted Entertainment

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AXN Asia is a pay-TV, cable and satellite TV channel owned by Sony Pictures Television. It is available throughout the 19 countries around Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand). AXN Asia delivers 24 hours a day of action TV series, movies, and adventure-reality and lifestyle sports programs. AXN introduced their new logo before the Voice season 9 on Sept 22, 2015 at 8.10 PM (MAL/SIN).

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Anime programming

Upon its launch, in the late 1990s and early 21st century, AXN broadcast several anime series, many in their original Japanese audio with English subtitles, both in the mornings and evenings, and held annual anime festivals around Southeast Asia. Its anime programming would later be transferred onto Animax Asia in 2004, the preparations for which Sony had been planning since the late 1990s. In the last quarter of 2010, selected anime programs from Animax Asia, dubbed in English language audio, aired both in the mornings and evenings. This feed was then available in the Philippines territory only, but later stopped airing on August 2016 as AXN would now focus on airing its main programming format.

Original productions

  • The Amazing Race Asia - a local version of the popular reality show The Amazing Race; the fourth season premiered in 2010 with a fifth season to premiere in 2016.
  • The Apartment
  • The Apprentice Asia - premiered in 2013
  • Asia's Got Talent - premiered in 2015
  • Cash Cab Asia
  • The Contender Asia - Muay Thai boxing reality show similar to The Contender; season 1 premiered on January 16, 2008
  • The Duke - men's lifestyle magazine talk show; season 1 premiered in 2009
  • e-Buzz - entertainment news show, hosted by Jaymee Ong; ongoing
  • The Kitchen Musical (was available in Singapore)
  • Sony Style - lifestyle and entertainment magazine show sponsored by Sony; seasons 2 & 3 hosted by Oli Pettigrew
  • Ultimate Escape - holiday adventure show; the first season aired from October 29, 2007 to November 19, 2007
  • AXN feeds
  • AXN Pan-regional (SEA: South East Asia)
  • AXN India
  • AXN Indonesia (same as the SEA feed with local advertisements)
  • AXN Japan
  • AXN Korea (joint venture with CU Media)
  • AXN Pakistan (same as Indian feed, only local advertising)
  • AXN Philippines (separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements, Anime Programming from Animax Asia and Movies but locally produced show Ten was not shown in SEA feed)
  • AXN Singapore (separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements)
  • AXN Taiwan
  • AXN Beyond (later known as BeTV; now Sony Channel)
  • AXN Beyond Malaysia
  • AXN Beyond Pan-regional
  • AXN Beyond Philippines

    • There are two feeds of the Pan Asian feed; one is aimed at viewers in Hong Kong and Thailand only, while the other ones is aimed at the rest of South East Asia. The shows on both the feeds are same, only with different advertising and promo timings. This is also the case with the Philippine feed, which sometimes carries or drops certain shows for reasons of programming rights. AXN Pakistan and AXN India share the same program content and schedules; however, advertising is different on both beams.

    AXN HD

    AXN broadcasts all of their dramas in high definition. The network is available in HD in Korea on 1 March 2009 and was launched in Singapore on StarHub TV Channel 559 on 25 May 2010. In Malaysia it was launched on 16 June 2010 on Astro channel 721. In Thailand it was launched on 12 July 2011 on TrueVisions channel 12 and in India was launched on 19 July 2014 on Videocon D2H channel 176. It premiered in Sri Lanka on Dialog TV's HD package in 2013 and occupies channel slot 90. In the Philippines it was launched on 20 April 2015 on SkyCable channel 247 & Sky Direct Channel 34 and also on Singtel TV

    References

    AXN (Asia) Wikipedia
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