Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd

Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd

Type	Public
Industry	Media
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Technology Park Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Malaysia Brunei
Key people	Dato' Haji Badri Masri Ralph Marshall Dato' Mohamed Khadar Merican
Products	Pay TV services Programming Content
Revenue	RM 3,258 million MYR (10% FY 2010)
Parent	Usaha Tegas Group Holdings Bhd
Subsidiaries	Astro Malaysia Holdings Sdn Bhd Astro Overseas Ltd
Website	http://www.astroplc.com/

Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd is a Malaysia investment holding media and entertainment company that began in the form of a pay digital direct broadcast satellite radio and television service, Astro.

Corporate Information

Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd is a company incorporated in Malaysia with its principal place of business at the Administration Building of the All Asia Broadcast Centre, located in Technology Park Malaysia.

Since its establishment, it expanded to provide management services to its subsidiaries. The company is dedicated and engaged in content creation, aggregation and distribution activities, including the provision of direct-to-home subscription television, radio broadcasting services, library licensing, multimedia interactive services, magazine publishing, Malaysian film production, talent management, creation of computer animation, interactive content and television content distribution. It is Malaysia's largest pay television provider.

History

In 1996, a state-of-the-art digital All Asia Broadcast Centre was constructed at Bukit Jalil. At the same time, the MEASAT satellite network began with the launch of MEASAT 1. The new pay-television service named Astro launched and started broadcasting with 22 television channels and 8 music channels. The launch of more MEASAT satellites from 1998 onward allowed Astro to begin expanding its services.

Timeline History

• 1996 — The Astro subscription service begins and named ASTRO All Asia Network plc was incorporate on England, Japan and wales.
• 1997 — It achieves Multimedia Super Corridor status.
• 2003 — Astro acquired Celestial Pictures and Philippine-based animation studio.
• April 2005 — the company acquired Thr.fm radio network, which is Malaysia's private Indian radio station. Astro launched Malaysia's first subscription IPTV channels based on content licensed from Goal TV (English Premier League Soccer club TV for Liverpool, Chelsea and others) and Akademi Fantasia, a localised version of an Endemol's Fame Academy.
• June 2005 — Astro acquired Yes Television (Hong Kong) Limited and Goal TV Asia Limited to distribute broadband and broadcast content in the region.
• 2006 — Rohana Rozhan CFO of AAAN elected as CEO of the Astro Malaysia and Brunei-based pay TV businesses.
• 2006 — Astro launches Astro MAX, Malaysia's first PVR service.
• 2007 — Astro launches VoD services, adding Hong Kong TVB dramas to on-demand content. (Astro On Demand is not a real VoD service as customers cannot request for videos at anytime, but can follow multi-broadcasting during a certain period of the day on different channels)
• April 28, 2008 - Astro cảm xúc was first launched in Vietnam as a product between HTVC and Astro. Six months later, Astro cảm xúc appeared on Vietnam Cable Television.
• June 14, 2010 - ASTRO was de-listed from the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad following a successful take-over offer by Usaha Tegas Group Holdings Bhd and company name has been changed to Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd

Holdings

Astro Malaysia Holdings Sdn Bhd

• Astro
• Kristal-Astro
• Astro Entertainment
• Astro Productions
• Airtime Management and Programming
• MEASAT Publications
• Digital Five
• Astro Shaw
• Tayangan Unggul

Astro Overseas Ltd

• AETN All Asia Networks
• Celestial Pictures
• TVB Publishing Holdings
• Philippine Animation N.V.
• Airtime Marketing and Sales India
• Goal TV Asia Limited
• FetchTV (Australia)

External links

• Astro All Asia Networks plc Corporate Website
• Astro Malaysia Website