“There is the world as we know it... And then there’s the other one – for want of a better term – the scary world.”

The market for pay-TV and broadcasters in Asia Pacific substantially slowed in 2014, with revenue growth decelerating from 9.8% in 2013 to 6.4% in 2014, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA) new research published Tuesday (2 June). Total sales reached US$19.5 billion.

What’s the right role for Big Data in the TV world? It’s a question Asia’s media bosses are busily asking as they move beyond TV.

Consumers are seeing “no significant divide between digital and traditional media: what they want is more flexibility, freedom and convenience in when and how they consume their preferred content,” says PwC’s new Global entertainment and media outlook 2015–2019.

German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) launches a new version of English-language global information channel on 22 June. The 24-hour channel aims to take its place among the world’s best-known German brands. The Mercedes of information, if you will.

Asia-based global satellite company ABS has soft launched a free-to-air satellite platform for India. ABS co-founder and chief executive, Tom Choi, said on Monday that the new free-sat platform would launch formally in August this yearwith about 80 channels.