THE PAST MONTH was full of super surprises, super M and A news in the broadcast biz, and a super destructive program. Of course, we also experienced the wraths of superstorms and super grandstanding among the politicos in our midst.
Let me take you in a Super Journey in these issues.
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THE BIGGEST SUPER surprise last October was MediaQuest Holdings' Acquisition of both ABC Development Corp. and Primedia Inc., which owns and manages TV5, this year's biggest comer in all of Philippine TV.
TV5 sure was hell bent in being the third force in Pinoy TV by bringing in destructive hits like Talentadong Pinoy and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. It also brought terrorizing Anime hits that would look ABS-CBN and Hero a lone turkey in the oven like Shakugan No Shana, Mai-HiME, Code Geass, and the explosive Same-year airing of Animax's hit Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
MediaQuest, meanwhile, is PLDT's Media Holding company, though not owned directly by the PLDT Group per se. MediaQuest Holdings is owned by the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund, the Retirement Fund of the telecom giant. MediaQuest has assets in Nation Broadcasting Corp., BusinessWorld, SkyCable, and GV Broadcasting, which they renamed as MediaScape, which operates the Smart myTV DVB-H Platform and, more recently, Cignal Satellite TV.
PLDT, as you all know, is hell bent on buying a Broadcast asset, more specifically, a very good TV broadcast asset other than it's current NBC asset for it's convergence strategy specifically for Smart and Cignal. It almost bought GMA Network and wanted to buy either RPN or IBC. But TV5 became very attractive to PLDT because of it's current standing in the TV ratings race and also a threat from Primedia's Malaysian backer, Media Prima, to bolt.
The price for the whole ABC deal, according to Manny Pangilinan, was at estimated "Less than PHP5 Billion"
Now that MediaQuest is now on the fray on improving ABC and TV5, what will these changes mean for the anime industry? Will MediaQuest scrap the current anime lineup or will provide fresh new financing to poach more better and more destructive anime titles in the future?
And will TV5 now cover Level Up Live in the Future???
As the very good wise men always say, Time will Tell.
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SUPER AS IT may seems, but ABS-CBN's Super Inggo Animation is anything but good. Super Inggo is the most advertised animated program on the block right now, inaptly called "Team Animazing", complete with the crappiest bumpers and the most disgusting Theme music ever.
I smirked when it made a launch on ASAP 09 one Sunday afternoon in October, and why should I? because it is the most fabricated crap in all of TV since GMA started their Teleseryes in 2004.
Super Inggo is Anything but new, because basically, it is just a retelling of the Super Inggo series that was made in 2005, helmed by the great director Manong Gilbert Perez.
And Anime Fans are now insulted right now because of the Hosts' tagging that this is the First "Pinoy Anime Series" in the country. Well, how many times are we now insulted because of this tagging? Oh yeah, back when Super Inggo was also tagged that way and also Rounin?
Why can't ABS-CBN just spend a good deal of its budget for Super Inggo to poach anime titles for the Parent network, Studio 23 and Hero? That way, they could compete more better than TV5 and Animax, which needless to say, is now leveling-up in terms of their innovative same-week and same-time telecasts from Japan.
Please, ABS-CBN, it doesn't matter if it's made a year ago or have been spent millions of pesos for that. Just give us what we need. MAR is Nice and so as Soul Eater and Gintama. But we need More, MORE!
Like Macross Frontier and Gundam 00.
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I WAS NOT Surprised when some events are now being postponed or being moved because of the typhoons we are experiencing. Of course it's the normal thing to do for the safety of the anime populace.
But for this month, we will have almost all of our weekends and a holiday being shot for the big anime events.
Starting this 7th, Level-Up! Live is going to be held at the World Trade Center, and the 8th is Anime Overload at the SMX.
21st and the 22nd will be the third staging of Mangaholixx Manga Mania also at the WTC, and 28th will be AME No Jidai, AME's first event outside the Bahay ng Alumni to be held at the sprawling A-Venue Events Hall.
Capping off the month is the highly controversial HeroNation, to be held on the 30th also at A-Venue Events Hall in Makati.
Well, at least all the events are held in November!
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FOR OUR FINAL WORD, I know it's been a tough 2 months for us, But Christmas is just around the corner. Share a smile with your friends, and let the good times roll!
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Twitter > twitter.com/knightkira
Facebook > facebook.com/knightkira
correspondent.kira@gmail.com
Let me take you in a Super Journey in these issues.
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THE BIGGEST SUPER surprise last October was MediaQuest Holdings' Acquisition of both ABC Development Corp. and Primedia Inc., which owns and manages TV5, this year's biggest comer in all of Philippine TV.
TV5 sure was hell bent in being the third force in Pinoy TV by bringing in destructive hits like Talentadong Pinoy and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. It also brought terrorizing Anime hits that would look ABS-CBN and Hero a lone turkey in the oven like Shakugan No Shana, Mai-HiME, Code Geass, and the explosive Same-year airing of Animax's hit Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
MediaQuest, meanwhile, is PLDT's Media Holding company, though not owned directly by the PLDT Group per se. MediaQuest Holdings is owned by the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund, the Retirement Fund of the telecom giant. MediaQuest has assets in Nation Broadcasting Corp., BusinessWorld, SkyCable, and GV Broadcasting, which they renamed as MediaScape, which operates the Smart myTV DVB-H Platform and, more recently, Cignal Satellite TV.
PLDT, as you all know, is hell bent on buying a Broadcast asset, more specifically, a very good TV broadcast asset other than it's current NBC asset for it's convergence strategy specifically for Smart and Cignal. It almost bought GMA Network and wanted to buy either RPN or IBC. But TV5 became very attractive to PLDT because of it's current standing in the TV ratings race and also a threat from Primedia's Malaysian backer, Media Prima, to bolt.
The price for the whole ABC deal, according to Manny Pangilinan, was at estimated "Less than PHP5 Billion"
Now that MediaQuest is now on the fray on improving ABC and TV5, what will these changes mean for the anime industry? Will MediaQuest scrap the current anime lineup or will provide fresh new financing to poach more better and more destructive anime titles in the future?
And will TV5 now cover Level Up Live in the Future???
As the very good wise men always say, Time will Tell.
-------------------------------------------------------------------SUPER AS IT may seems, but ABS-CBN's Super Inggo Animation is anything but good. Super Inggo is the most advertised animated program on the block right now, inaptly called "Team Animazing", complete with the crappiest bumpers and the most disgusting Theme music ever.
I smirked when it made a launch on ASAP 09 one Sunday afternoon in October, and why should I? because it is the most fabricated crap in all of TV since GMA started their Teleseryes in 2004.
Super Inggo is Anything but new, because basically, it is just a retelling of the Super Inggo series that was made in 2005, helmed by the great director Manong Gilbert Perez.
And Anime Fans are now insulted right now because of the Hosts' tagging that this is the First "Pinoy Anime Series" in the country. Well, how many times are we now insulted because of this tagging? Oh yeah, back when Super Inggo was also tagged that way and also Rounin?
Why can't ABS-CBN just spend a good deal of its budget for Super Inggo to poach anime titles for the Parent network, Studio 23 and Hero? That way, they could compete more better than TV5 and Animax, which needless to say, is now leveling-up in terms of their innovative same-week and same-time telecasts from Japan.
Please, ABS-CBN, it doesn't matter if it's made a year ago or have been spent millions of pesos for that. Just give us what we need. MAR is Nice and so as Soul Eater and Gintama. But we need More, MORE!
Like Macross Frontier and Gundam 00.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
I WAS NOT Surprised when some events are now being postponed or being moved because of the typhoons we are experiencing. Of course it's the normal thing to do for the safety of the anime populace.
But for this month, we will have almost all of our weekends and a holiday being shot for the big anime events.
Starting this 7th, Level-Up! Live is going to be held at the World Trade Center, and the 8th is Anime Overload at the SMX.
21st and the 22nd will be the third staging of Mangaholixx Manga Mania also at the WTC, and 28th will be AME No Jidai, AME's first event outside the Bahay ng Alumni to be held at the sprawling A-Venue Events Hall.
Capping off the month is the highly controversial HeroNation, to be held on the 30th also at A-Venue Events Hall in Makati.
Well, at least all the events are held in November!
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FOR OUR FINAL WORD, I know it's been a tough 2 months for us, But Christmas is just around the corner. Share a smile with your friends, and let the good times roll!
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Twitter > twitter.com/knightkira
Facebook > facebook.com/knightkira
correspondent.kira@gmail.com
