Message from the Editor

Dear Reader,

This past year has proven to be challenging for almost everyone due to the COVID situation. With conferences and events such as the Asia TV Forum and Market pushing forward and going fully virtual this year, it’s just one of the many proofs that we are resilient and can weather anything.

The media industry has been able to adapt to these changing times quite well. A testament is this month’s Television Asia Plus issue, where we feature the media companies and their stories on how they are adapting to these times and what they have in store for 2021.

In our cover story, we feature six leading Southeast Asian media companies that let us in on what they have in store for 2021. On C-Suite, the spotlight is on Derek Tan, the co-founder and COO of Viddsee, who talked about the meaningful projects that they embarked on that helps empower Asian storytellers. Other feature stories for this month include Nippon TV’s new Anime Department that will bring well-loved Japanese anime to a global audience, as well as the exciting content offerings for December from Astro.

As we bid goodbye to 2020 and welcome 2021 with optimism, we at Television Asia Plus wish all of you happy holidays, and hopefully, we get to meet each other in person very soon!