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Rai Italia is the commercial branch of Rai Group, the Italian Public A+E Networks™ is an award-winning global content company consisting Broadcaster. The company is an international content producer and of some of the world’s most iconic and culturally relevant brands in distributor, offering year-round support to all major Italian directors media, including The HISTORY Channel™, Lifetime™, History2™ and and emerging talent by delivering their titles to the international Crime+Investigation™. A+E Networks™ Asia operates and distributes its market. Rai Com also distributes Rai Channels with a multiplatform approach to better reach wider audiences and targeted markets. portfolio of channels across multiple platforms in Asia Pacifi c, produces a variety of original content series and provides digital content capabilities for 3rd party partners in the region. Globally, A+E Networks’ channels and branded programming reach more than 340 million households in over 230 territories in 42 languages and have 500+ million digital users.

Rai Com S.p.A. Via Umberto Novaro, 18 00195 Rome, Italy T: +39 06 33178229 W: www.raicom.rai.it @Raicomspa A+E Networks Asia 18 Purvis Street #02-01 Singapore 188597 @rai_com Who’s Who... Channel distribution in Asia

A+E Networks Asia operates throughout Asia-Pacifi c, reaching 87.2 million cumulative households across pay-TV and on-demand platforms. *Note: fi gure above excludes India and Australia.

On-demand services

Who’s who... David Bogi Business Development and Strategies Director Benedetta Migliore International Channels Distribution, Extra European Countries Saugato Banerjee Managing Director, Asia Pacifi c E: Saugato.Banerjee@aenetworks.com John Flanagan General Manager, Japan and Regional Head of Programming & Marketing E: John.Flanagan@aenetworks.com YoungSun Soh General Manager, Korea & Regional Head of Digital Business Development E: YoungSun.Soh@aenetworks.com Chris Humphrey Head of Production, Asia Pacifi c A+E Networks offers a range of content across AVOD, TVOD, FVOD, SVOD and OTT to existing linear TV channel subscribers with the number of hours of content varying throughout the region. Its content and channels are also offered on a subscription basis on various local and regional OTT platforms such as Hulu and Apple TV in selected territories in Asia. Advertising/sponsorship A+E Networks Asia’s commercial teams work in partnership with brands and agencies to deliver a wide variety of multi-platform media solutions from seamless programme integration to customised digital content creation, consumer activations and engaging social media campaigns. A+E Networks Asia’s ability to reach local and international audiences in a brand safe environment is sought after by advertisers seeking to interact with active multi-platform audiences. David Bogi Benedetta Migliore E: Chris.Humphrey@aenetworks.com Joyce Lim Senior Director of Content, Southeast Asia E: Joyce.Lim@aenetworks.com Target Audience Italians living abroad We expect to see the continued growth of VOD, including premium AVOD services. Trends & Outlook 2021 Commissario Ricciardi Feryal Hemamda Director of Marketing, Digital, Communications, Southeast Asia E: Feryal.Hemamda@aenetworks.com Alistair Roseburgh Linear Television Channels In Asia Rai Italia The great beauty of Italian TV programes Showcasing the best of Italy, 24/7, Rai Italia features the best of Rai programming in Italian with a mix of variety, Locally produced quality content combined with affordable data will continue to power the growth of content consumption. At the same, select markets will continue to witness resilience of the linear content ecosystem.” Director of Operations, talk, lifestyle, news, drama, sports, culture, documentary, Saugato Banerjee, Asia-Pacifi c Managing Director, A+E Networks Digital Productions, Asia Pacifi c travel, kids, music, series, soap operas and original proE: Alistair.Roseburgh@aenetworks.com Content strategy ductions for Italians abroad.

L’Italia Con Voi AD SALES CONTACT

Rohit Potphode

Head of Ad Sales & Brand Partnerships E: Rohit.Potphode@aenetworks.com

AFFILIATE SALES CONTACT Salawati Mohamed

Head of Distribution & Partnership Development, Southeast Asia Rai News 24 E: Salawati.Mohamed@aenetworks.com

PROGRAMME ACQUISITION CONTACT Pooja Nirmal Kant

Director of International Content Sales, Southeast Asia E: Pooja.NirmalKant@aenetworks.com A+E Networks Asia has an increased focus on creating local productions from Rai News 24 the region, however the majority of its content comes from the vast programme The fi rst Italian all-news channel with a non-stop information. offering from A+E Networks U.S, exclusive on its channels. All content acquired Operating 24/7, Rai News 24 informs viewers with for A+E Networks Asia channels feature a diverse range of programming that is top stories, breaking news, and live coverage of unique and specially curated for our audiences in Asia. main national and international events. Created Local Production April 26, 1999, Rai News 24 developed an innovative model combining television, internet and digital technologies. The choice of a Through 2020, A+E Networks was committed to producing local productions. multiscreen format and widespread use of video conference connections with In Japan, our biggest titles included Tokyo Legacy and the theatrical release, correspondents and experts is signifi cant. Often, videos are broadcast without Sono Otoko Tokyo Ni Tsuki. War of Innocents, will premiere globally across A+E commentary and only some subtitles, so as to not to bias the viewer. Networks channels this year. Other productions include Back to Nature, which features Japan’s unique pristine nature sites and Sado. In 2020, Korea’s biggest titles included Backstreet Rookie Inter Milan TV and Lazio Style Channel produced by Taewon Entertainment led by legRai sports channels offer fans ex-endary producer Myeongwoo Lee. Negotiation King topped digital content, averaging 4.4M views per episode. In 2021, clusive interviews with players and Dramaworld premieres in Asia. The series staff; full matches: including all Serie is A+E Networks Korea’s second premium scripted drama featuring Korean and A games, UEFA Champions League American actors Jiwon Ha, Henry Lau and Daniel Dae Kim. or UEFA Europa League, live reserve, Asia Focus in 2021 academy games and “classic” matches; plus footballing news and “We will continue to create locally relevant quality content that entertains and other themed programming. The inspires our audience in Asia. We will build further upon our success in Korea, crestations also broadcast all of the ating sought after scripted, unscripted and digital content across the region. In team’s preseason friendly matches. Japan we are telling thought-provoking stories that captivate HISTORY fans all Inter Milan TV is available in selected over the world. In Southeast Asia, we are working on a variety of original content territories. productions both for linear and our digital platforms. Our strength continues to be our ability as a multi-location business to partner with the creation and distribution ecosystem in bringing the best of A+E’s global IP with relevant local content. This unique proposition provides valuable benefi ts and opportunities to our clients and partners.” – Saugato Banerjee, Asia-Pacifi c Managing Director, A+E Networks C N T E N T A S I A C N T E N T A S I A

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