Celestial Movies HD and KIX HD debut on Malaysia’s leading DTH platform

Hong Kong Feb 27, 2012 – Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), the operator of the largest bouquet of pan-Asian channels dedicated to Asian entertainment, announced today the forthcoming launch on March 1, 2012 of Celestial Movies HD (CM HD) and KIX HD, two high-definition channels on Malaysia’s leading DTH platform ASTRO. ASTRO B.yond HD customers can now watch the latest Chinese blockbusters and other hit Asian movies in high-definition on CM HD, alongside a unique mix of action and thriller programmes premiering first and exclusively on KIX HD. Malaysia becomes the first market in the region to carry CM HD, and the second market for KIX HD following the channel’s Singapore launch in November 2011.

Todd Miller, President and Chief Operating Officer of Celestial Tiger Entertainment said, “The launch of these two HD channels on ASTRO is a very important step for Celestial Tiger Entertainment. Celestial Movies HD marks our first HD movie channel and we look forward to extending the channel to more markets in the region. KIX HD marks the first time the channel and many of its programmes have been seen in Malaysia. We are confident that the channel’s mix of action and thrills in high definition will appeal to Malaysian viewers of all ethnicities.”

“We are extremely pleased to welcome both KIX HD and Celestial Movies HD on the ASTRO B.yond HD platform. I am confident both channels will provide a variety of outstanding Asian and international HD content for our customers” said Henry Tan, Chief Operating Officer, ASTRO.

Celestial Movies HD offers subscribers first run and exclusive Chinese and Asian blockbusters as well as all-time favorites, now in sterling high-definition quality and widescreen format. CM HD’s March and April highlights include the award-winning 2011 blockbuster Overheard 2, starring Louis Koo and Daniel Wu, and martial arts fantasy Sorcerer and the White Snake, from legendary action director Ching Siu-tung and starring international superstar Jet Li, Eva Huang, Raymond Lam and Charlene Choi.

KIX HD offers “Action by Day, Thrill by Night” in high-definition. The channel features five distinct programming pillars: fight events, action series, action reality, action movies and a late-night block of thriller movies. KIX HD subscribers can look forward to exclusive mixed martial arts (MMA) tournaments and other fight competitions, action-packed genre films from Asia and Hollywood, and action-themed reality shows and scripted television series, many never-before-seen in Malaysia.

KIX HD highlights in March and April include Malaysia premieres of DREAM 2012, a must-watch yearly MMA fight-fest staged in Saitama, Japan featuring the legendary Fedor Emelianenko vs. Japanese heavyweight star Satoshi Ishii; and highly-rated Korean drama A Yaksa, a 12-episode period martial arts tale starring Jo Dong-hyeok and Seo Do-yeong. Coming soon in April first and exclusively is Blood Thirsty Prosecutor (a.k.a. Vampire Prosecutor), a 12-episode Korean drama about a prosecutor (Yun Jung-hoon) who uses his vampire powers to exact justice; and Expedition Impossible, a new show from Survivor and The Apprentice creator Mark Burnett making its debut in Malaysia.

Celestial Movies HD and KIX HD will be available on the ASTRO B.yond HD platform via Channel 309 and Channel 729, respectively.

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Media enquiries
Pauline Poon
Celestial Tiger Entertainment
T: 8522626 8131
E: pauline.poon@celestialtiger.com

About Celestial Tiger Entertainment

Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) is a diversified media company dedicated to entertaining audiences in Asia and beyond. The company focuses on the operation of branded pay television channels, content creation and content distribution targeted at Asian consumers.

CTE operates a powerful bouquet of distinct pay television channels including: Celestial Movies, the most broadly distributed 24-hour Chinese and Asian movies channel in the world; Celestial Classic Movies, the gateway to an unparalleled array of Chinese movie masterpieces; Celestial Movies On Demand, Celestial’s subscription video on demand service; KIX, the ultimate in action entertainment; Thrill, Asia’s only horror and suspense movie channel; and KIX HD, featuring the best of action with a late-night dose of thrillers in high definition.

As one of Asia’s largest vertically integrated entertainment companies, CTE produces original content which complements its channels business. CTE is also the exclusive sales agent of content in all media in Southeast Asia and China from independent Hollywood studio Lionsgate.

Headquartered in Hong Kong, CTE is a joint venture among Saban Capital Group, a leading private investment firm specializing in the media, entertainment and communications industries; Celestial Pictures, a major Asian entertainment company wholly-owned by Astro, the owner and operator of the leading DTH platform in Malaysia; and Lionsgate, the world’s largest independent filmed entertainment studio.

For more information, please visit www.celestialtiger.com.

Astro Malaysia Holdings

Astro Malaysia Holdings Sdn Bhd is Malaysia’s leading integrated cross-media group with operations in 4 key businesses: Pay TV, Radio, Content and Digital. Launched in 1996, Astro today has a 50% penetration of TV homes in Malaysia or 3 million customers, making it a key pay TV operator in Southeast Asia. Astro broadcasts over 155 channels, of which 18 are in HD, is a leading edge innovator with its introduction of HD, 3D and PVR – a first in Malaysia, and also Video On Demand and IPTV service. It is the leading aggregator, creator and distributor of original multi-language content of various genres across multi-channels. Its radio network both terrestrial and digital covers all key languages cumulatively reaching 11.5 million listeners a week and ranked among the top 10 stations in the country. Its digital arm involved in digital publishing, applications and platforms as well as publication of entertainment and lifestyle magazines locally. For more details, log on to www.astro.com.my.

NICK JR. LAUNCHES ON 1-SKY IN THAILAND
First children’s channel to debut on new broadcasting platform

SINGAPORE / BANGKOK, 22 February 2012 – Viacom International Media Networks Asia, a division of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB) today announced Nick Jr.’s launch in Thailand through GMM Grammy, the country’s largest entertainment and media conglomerate group. From 20 February, Thai viewers will be able to enjoy Nick Jr., a commercial-free, English educational channel for preschoolers on GMM Grammy’s new 1-Sky broadcasting platform that offers free Satellite TV and Pay TV services with more than 200 channels.

Aimed at preschoolers and parents, Nick Jr. builds on Nickelodeon’s reputation as one of the world’s leading multi-platform entertainment brand for kids. With a commitment to stimulate, educate, involve, excite and develop enquiring minds, Nick Jr.’s philosophy is to ‘play-to-learn’ through award-winning and exclusive international properties including Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! which are designed to engage and encourage early childhood development. Aside from Dora The Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!, Nick Jr. will bring playful entertainment and connected learning with shows Little Bill, Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, Blue’s Clues, Wonder Pets!, Team Umizoomi, Bubble Guppies, Fifi and the Flower Tots, and Max & Ruby among others.

Nick Jr. is the first children’s channel to debut on 1-Sky’s broadcasting platform and will be available 24 hours a day to 1-Sky’s Entertainment package and Combo package subscribers. The launch in Thailand marks the latest expansion of Nick Jr. across Asia, following launches in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Mongolia last year.

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About Viacom International Media Networks

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), a unit of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), is comprised of many of the world’s most popular multimedia entertainment brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, non-premium Paramount Pictures branded channels, VH1, VIVA, MTVHD, COLORS, Game One and Tr3s: MTV, Música y Más, a channel for US Hispanic audiences. Viacom brands are seen globally in more than 600 million households in over 160 territories and 34 languages via more than 160 locally programmed and operated TV channels and more than 550 digital media and mobile TV properties.

Press Contact:
Ching Yee Wong
Communications Manager
Viacom International Media Networks
t: (65) 6420 7154 f: (65) 6221 9795 m: (65) 9796 2104
email: wong.chingyee@vimn.com

Sea Launch on Track to Loft Intelsat 19

BERN, Switzerland, February 17, 2012 – Sea Launch AG, through Energia Logistics Ltd., has conducted a Hardware Acceptance Review of the Zenit-2S launch vehicle to be utilized in support of the Intelsat 19 mission. A team of specialists from the Chief Engineer’s Office at Energia Logistics Ltd., together with specialists from RSC Energia, reviewed all of the acceptance data for the Zenit-2S #SL33 vehicle and found that all required acceptance test values were within specification.

The Condock V sea-based transport vessel carrying the Zenit-2S launch vehicle designated for Intelsat 19 departed the port at Oktyabrsky, Ukraine on February 17, 2012 and is scheduled to arrive pier-side at Sea Launch’s Home Port facility in Long Beach, California on March 30, 2012. The Block DM-SL upper stage designated for Intelsat 19, provided by RSC Energia, was shipped to Home Port last year and the Payload Accommodations, provided by Boeing Commercial Space Company, will be shipped in early March. The Intelsat 19 mission is planned for launch in May 2012.

Built by Space Systems Loral, the Intelsat 19 satellite will weigh approximately 5,600 kilograms (12,345 lbs.) at launch. It is expected to arrive at the Sea Launch facility during the last week of March in preparation for the start of standalone and combined spacecraft operations.

About Sea Launch AG

Sea Launch AG, headquartered in Bern, Switzerland, provides strategic end–to–end launch solutions to the industry’s satellite operator community based on the venerable Zenit launch system. These services include the provision of all–inclusive launch services as well as schedule assurance, financing, risk management; insurance and creative contracting solutions to meet the changing demands of the commercial launch market. Sea Launch AG owns and manages the primary technology, patent and other intellectual property and tangible assets of the company. These include the Launch Platform Odyssey and the Sea Launch Commander vessels located in the Home Port facility in Long Beach, California, and the unique know–how associated with launching satellites from an ocean–based launch platform located directly on the equator. Sea Launch AG contracts directly and exclusively with Energia Logistics Ltd. as its technical partner for the delivery and execution of Sea Launch Zenit–3SL launch services. The Sea Launch system offers the most direct and cost-effective route to geostationary orbit for commercial communications satellites, providing diversity of supply, affordability and flexibility for the industry’s satellite operators. For more information, please visit the Sea Launch website at: www.sea-launch.com.

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Contact: Peter Stier, +41 31 380 00 08, peter.g.stier@sea-launch.ch

NEWSAT SECURES CAPACITY ON MEASAT-3b

Kuala Lumpur, 20 February 2012 – MEASAT Global Berhad (“MEASAT”) announced today the final execution of a long-term lease agreement with NewSat Limited (“NewSat”) for capacity on the MEASAT-3b satellite.

Under the terms of the agreement, NewSat – an Australian licensed telecommunications carrier – will secure multiple Ku-band transponders on the MEASAT-3b satellite, over the life of the satellite. The capacity will be marketed by NewSat under the “Jabiru-2″ satellite name.

“We are delighted to be able to support NewSat with high quality satellite capacity in this strategically important contract,” said Datuk Umar bin Haji Abu, Chairman, MEASAT Global Berhad.

MEASAT-3b is a high powered geostationary satellite designed to provide at least 48 high powered Ku-band transponders to Malaysia, India, Indonesia and Australia. Operating in tandem with the MEASAT-3 and MEASAT-3a satellites at the key 91.5°E hotslot, MEASAT-3b will provide satellite capacity to support the expansion of MEASAT’s existing customer base and provide in-orbit redundancy services. The satellite, which is being manufactured by Astrium SAS and launched by Arianespace, is planned to be launched end 2013.

About MEASAT

MEASAT is a premium supplier of satellite communication services to leading international broadcasters, DTH platforms and telecom operators. With capacity across a fleet of five communications satellites, MEASAT is able to provide satellite services to over 145 countries representing 80% of the world’s population across Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe and Australia.

The MEASAT fleet includes the state of art MEASAT-3/3a satellites at 91.5°E which support Asia’s premium DTH and video distribution neighborhood. The MEASAT fleet will be further strengthened with the addition of AFRICASAT-1a at 46°E in Q4 2012 and MEASAT-3b at 91.5°E in Q4 2013.

Leveraging facilities at the MEASAT Teleport and Broadcast Centre, and working with a select group of world-class partners, MEASAT also provides a complete range of broadcast and telecommunications solutions. Services include 3D, high definition and standard definition video playout, video turnaround, co-location, uplinking, broadband and IP termination services.

For more information, please visit www.measat.com.

Contact:
Chan Ming Yang
MEASAT
+60 (3) 8213 2154
mingyang@measat.com