AXN Asia
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| AXN Asia | |
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| Launched | September 21, 1997 |
| Network | Sony Pictures Television |
| Owned by | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV 4:3 aspect ratio |
| Slogan | On To The Next One |
| Country | Singapore |
| Broadcast area | Southeast Asia Brunei Burma Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam South Asia Bangladesh India Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Maldives Other regions Hong Kong Korea Taiwan |
| Headquarters | Suntec City Mall, Singapore |
| Sister channel(s) | AXN Beyond Animax Asia SET Asia |
| Website | Official Website |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Astro (Malaysia) | Channel 701 (SD) Channel 721 (HD) |
| TrueVisions (Thailand) | Channel 52 (SD) Channel 129 (HD) |
| Indovision (Indonesia) | Channel 154 |
| Dream Satellite TV (Philippines) | Channel 20 |
| Aora TV (Indonesia) | Channel 302 |
| TVB Pay Vision (Hong Kong) | Channel 22 |
| G Sat (Philippines) | Channel 21 |
| Cignal Digital TV (Philippines) | Channel 38 |
| PBS TV (Fiji) | Channel 501 |
| HKC Sat (Hong Kong) | Channel 22 |
| CBTV Sat (China) | Channel 308 |
| SKY Perfect (Japan) | Channel 725 |
| I Hits (Japan) | Channel 232 |
| JC Hits (Japan) | Channel 757 |
| SKY Perfect e2 (Japan) | Channel 311 |
| SkyLife (South Korea) | Channel 66 (HD) |
| Tata Sky (India) | Channel 207 |
| Dish TV (India) | Channel 455 |
| Sun Direct (India) | Channel 452 |
| Big TV (India) | Channel 252 |
| Videocon D2H (India) | Channel 7 |
| Airtel Digital TV (India) | Channel 135 |
| VTC Digital (Vietnam) | Channel 09 (HD) |
| TelkomVision (Indonesia) | Channel 13 |
| K+ (Vietnam) | Channel 56 |
| Dialog TV (Sri Lanka) | Channel 30 |
| Skynindo (Indonesia) | Channel ??? |
| Okevision (Indonesia) | Channel 023 |
| D-Sky (Taiwan) | Channel 08 |
| Cable | |
| StarHub TV (Singapore) | Channel 511 (SD) Channel 559 (HD) |
| First Media (Indonesia) | Channel 51 |
| SkyCable (Philippines) | Channel 49[1] |
| Cablelink (Philippines) | Channel 34 |
| Cable TV Hong Kong (Hong Kong) | Channel 22 |
| Cable Star Iloilo (Philippines) | Channel 27 |
| Parasat Cable TV (Philippines) | Channel 42 |
| SCTV (Vietnam) | Channel 63 |
| HTVC (Vietnam) | Channel 29/52 |
| Jogja Medianet (Indonesia) | Channel 11 |
| Royal Cable (Philippines) | Channel 24 |
| Kalibo Cable (Philippines) | Channel 25 |
| SPC-New World Cable TV (Philippines) | Channel 20 |
| Telmarc Cable (Philippines) | Channel 33 |
| USATV (Philippines) | Channel 09 |
| UCS (Bangladesh) | Channel 31 |
| MediaNet (Maldives) | Channel 523 |
| Macau Cable TV (Macau) | Channel 62 |
| J:COM (Japan) | Channel 252 (Digital) |
| Mountain View Satellite Corporation (Baguio, Benguet, & Parts of Region 1) | Channel 39 |
| IPTV | |
| now TV (Hong Kong) | Channel 512 (SD) |
| HKBN bbTV (Hong Kong) | Channel 304 |
| PTCL Smart TV (Pakistan) | Channel 74 |
| IndosatM2 (Indonesia) | Channel ??? |
| Teledasun (LBN) (Sri Lanka) | Channel N/A |
| Southern Networks (Pakistan) | Channel 42 |
| UniFi (Malaysia) | Channel 165 |
| Internet television | |
| 4th MEDIA (Japan) | Channel 441 |
AXN Asia is a pay-tv, cable and satellite TV channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. It is available in throughout the 18 countries around the Asia-Pacific region (Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). AXN Asia delivers 24 hours a day of action TV series, movies, and adventure-reality and lifestyle sports programs.[2]
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[edit] International programming
- The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series)
- Cash Cab Asia
- Caught on the Camera
- Chuck
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
- Damages
- The Firm (2012 TV series)
- Leverage (TV series)
- House
- Numb3rs
- So You Think You Can Dance
- Teen Wolf (2011 TV series)
- The Voice (U.S.)
- Wipeout
[edit] Anime programming
Upon its launch, in the late 1990s and early 21st century, AXN broadcast several anime series, much of them in their original Japanese audio with English subtitles, both in the mornings and evenings, and held annual anime festivals around Southeast Asia.[3][4] Its anime programming would later be transferred onto Animax Asia in 2004, the preparations of which Sony had been planning since the late 1990s.[4] In the last quarter of 2010, selected anime programs from Animax Asia which is dubbed in English language audio both in the mornings and evenings. This feed is available in the Philippines territory only.
- Ah! Megami-sama (OVA)
- Akai Hayate
- Akira
- Alien 9
- Ariel
- Ayashi no Ceres
- Bleach Season 1†
- Boys Be
- Burn-Up Excess
- Blue Submarine No. 6
- Cooking Master Boy
- Curious Play (TV & OVA series)
- Cyber Team in Akihabara
- Darker Descendants
- Dual!
- Edens Bowy
- El Hazard: The Alternative World
- El Hazard: The Magnificent World
- Fam & Ihrlie
- Fatal Fury (movies 1-3)
- Fairy Tail Season 1 †
- Flame of Recca
- Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood†
- Galaxy Angel
- Gatekeepers
- Gensomaden Saiyuki
- Gestalt
- Ghots in the Shell
- Ghostsweeper
- Grander Musashi
- Gunsmith Cats
- Hana Yori Dango
- Key the Metal Idol
- The Legend of Condor Hero
- Madox-01
- Metropolis
- NieA 7
- Ninku
- Now and Then, Here and There
- Oji the Section Chief
- Power Stone
- Ranma 1/2
- Rave
- Rayearth (OVA)
- Sakura Wars
- Samurai Showdown
- Samurai X
- Samurai X : The Movie
- Shadow Skill
- Shin Hakkenden
- Slam Dunk
- Sol Bianca
- Space Warship Yamamoto Yoko
- Steam Detective
- Strange Dawn
- Street Fighter Zero
- Tenchi Muyo in Love 2
- The Art of Fighting
- 3x3 Eyes
- The Wave of Rage
- Twin Signal
- Vandread
- Vandread: The Second Stage
- Vandread: Integral
- Yamato Takeru
- You're Under Arrest!
- You're Under Arrest! (2nd season)
- You're Under Arrest! (movie)
† - English language audio dub, Available in the Philippines only
[edit] Original productions
- Cash Cab Asia
- The Apartment
- The Kitchen Musical
- The Amazing Race Asia - A local verson of the popular realarty show The Amazing Race; the fourth season premieres in 2010.
- Ultimate Escape - Holiday adventure show, the first season aired from October 29, 2007 to November 19, 2007.[5]
- The Contender Asia - Muay Thai boxing reality show similar to The Contender; season 1 premiered on January 16, 2008.[6]
- e Buzz - Entertainment news show, hosted by Jaymee Ong; ongoing[7]
- Sony Style - Lifestyle & entertainment magazine show sponsored by Sony; season 2 & 3 hosted by Oli Pettigrew[8]
- The Duke - Men's lifestyle magazine talk show; season 1 premiered in 2009[9]
[edit] Related channels
- AXN Beyond
- AXN East Asia (South East Asia)
- AXN India
- AXN Indonesia (Same as the Southeast Asia beam with local advertisements)
- AXN Japan
- AXN Korea (Joint venture with CU Media)
- AXN Pakistan (Same as Indian beam only local advertising)
- AXN Philippines (Same as the SEA beam with some exclusive programming and local adverts.)
- AXN Taiwan
There are two feeds of the Pan Asian feed, one is aimed at viewers in Hong Kong and Thailand only, while the other ones airs is aimed at the rest of South East Asia. The shows on both the feeds are same only 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.
[edit] AXN HD
AXN broadcasts all of their dramas in high definition. The network is available in HD in Korea on 1 March 2009 and will launched in Singapore on StarHub TV Channel 559 on 25 May 2010.[10] In Malaysia it was launched on 16 June 2010 on Astro channel 721.[11] and in thailand was launched on 12 July 2011 on TrueVisions channel 129.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ SkyCable Channel Guide
- ^ About AXN
- ^ Magz Ozbourne (2007-12-01). "AXN - Evolution". Television Asia. http://www.onscreenasia.com/article-2092-axnevolution-onscreenasia.html.
- ^ a b Michael Flagg (2000-09-27). "Singapore's AXN Cable Channel Brings Action to Stagnant Market". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB969992042482150702.html?mod=googlewsj. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
- ^ AXN Ultimate Escape
- ^ ‘Reality television is here to stay’
- ^ e Buzz at Telebisyon.net
- ^ Sony Style website
- ^ The Duke at Telebisyon.net
- ^ AXN HD in Singapore
- ^ AXN HD in Malaysia
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Official India website
- Official Taiwan website (Chinese)
- Official Korea website (Korean)
- Official Japan website (Japanese)
- Official Website Sony Television Asia
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