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Zhu Rong
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Singapore
Apr 14, 2010
Govt to step in on pay-TV
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Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Rear-Admiral (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, said there was concern that the telcos 'did not put enough resources and investments into packaging and providing value-add'. -- PHOTO: AFP
<!-- story content : start --> CANNES - A DROP in the quality of pay-TV programming forced the Government to intervene and set up new rules requiring telcos to share exclusive content last month. In the first official comments about the changes, which have been criticised by analysts and the telcos but praised by viewers, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Rear-Admiral (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, said there was concern that the telcos 'did not put enough resources and investments into packaging and providing value-add'.
Speaking to reporters at MIPTV in Cannes, an annual marketplace where digital media content is sold and bought, RADM Lui said having a monopoly on content could affect the quality of programming. He cited feedback he had received on a sports channel, in which a viewer complained that even basic commentary on rugby was not provided. If the original feed from content providers was available to both players, then one might want to up the game and snare more customers by providing value-add in the form of, say, extra commentary. From September, the two pay-TV providers in Singapore, StarHub and SingTel, must share their exclusive content with each other.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Apr 14, 2010
Govt to step in on pay-TV
<!-- by line --> By Tan Weizhen
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Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Rear-Admiral (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, said there was concern that the telcos 'did not put enough resources and investments into packaging and providing value-add'. -- PHOTO: AFP
<!-- story content : start --> CANNES - A DROP in the quality of pay-TV programming forced the Government to intervene and set up new rules requiring telcos to share exclusive content last month. In the first official comments about the changes, which have been criticised by analysts and the telcos but praised by viewers, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Rear-Admiral (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, said there was concern that the telcos 'did not put enough resources and investments into packaging and providing value-add'.
Speaking to reporters at MIPTV in Cannes, an annual marketplace where digital media content is sold and bought, RADM Lui said having a monopoly on content could affect the quality of programming. He cited feedback he had received on a sports channel, in which a viewer complained that even basic commentary on rugby was not provided. If the original feed from content providers was available to both players, then one might want to up the game and snare more customers by providing value-add in the form of, say, extra commentary. From September, the two pay-TV providers in Singapore, StarHub and SingTel, must share their exclusive content with each other.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
[email protected]
