Celestial Tiger Entertainment Partners with Cable Thai Holding to Bring KIX, Thrill and Celestial Classic Movies to 3.5 Million Thai Households

Hong Kong (January 25, 2013) - Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) and Cable Thai Holding, Plc. (CTH) jointly announced at a press briefing in Bangkok today the launches of three CTE channels on CTH: KIX, Thrill and Celestial Classic Movies (CCM). The three channels will launch in February on CTH’s platform which reaches over 3.5 million TV households in Thailand. Viewers will be treated to three distinct channels specifically created for Asian viewers.

KIX, the ultimate destination for action entertainment, offers CTH subscribers a heart-pumping mix of combat sports, action series, cutting-edge reality shows and action movies. Viewers can catch the first and exclusive broadcast of mixed martial arts tournaments from Bellator MMA season 8 on KIX. Fighters featured include lightweight champion Michael Chandler, Olympian Rick Hawn and featherweight champion Pat Curran. KIX is also airing the first and exclusive broadcast of LFL Canada, the Canadian games of the Lingerie Football League. Viewers can watch the hottest and toughest female football players compete in 7-on-7 American football wearing only their lingerie.

For horror, thriller and suspense fans, CTH subscribers can turn to Thrill any time of the day to get their scare fix. Thrill, Asia's only 24-hour movie channel dedicated to the horror, suspense and thriller genres, offers many of the most iconic horror movies such as the Ring franchise, Ju-on and its sequels, the Amityville Horror saga, the Friday the 13th franchise, and the terrifying The Blair Witch Project films. Fans of the supernatural can also catch the first and exclusive broadcast of the hit UK series Bedlam.   

CCM will offer CTH subscribers movie masterpieces from the golden age of Chinese cinema, digitally remastered to offer picture quality rivaling the original cinematic print. Some of the upcoming movies on CCM include comedy favorites like Look Out, Officer! starring Stephen Chow and Kung Fu epics based on Jin Yong’s novels such as The Emperor And His Brother starring Ti Lung, and Tales Of A Eunuch starring Gordon Liu and Wang Yu.

“We are extremely pleased to partner with CTH to offer KIX, Thrill and Celestial Classic Movies to their broad base of subscribers. Whether it is classic Chinese movies that have stood the test of time or the best in action and suspense entertainment, our channels offer distinct and exclusive programming curated with Asian viewers in mind. Our partnership with CTH represents the 24th carriage deal we have concluded since the formation of Celestial Tiger Entertainment a year ago, and we look forward to working with them to continue the momentum of our growing audience while increasing their subscribers in Thailand," said Todd Miller, President and Chief Operating Officer, Celestial Tiger Entertainment.

“We are delighted to welcome such a world-class brand from Celestial Tiger Entertainment into CTH’s family.  Although CTE’s brands are quite new to our market but the company is not a newcomer in the world market. We believe that with CTE’s strong background in entertainment business, our subscribers will have the best experience in all of their content, be it series, movies or reality shows on CTH’s digital network,” said Kittsanan Ngamphatipong, CEO of CTH.

KIX will be offered in CTH's basic pack, while Thrill and CCM will be carried in CTH's premium packs. For more information on how to subscribe, customers may visit www.cth.co.th.


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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 independent entertainment companies, CTE produces original content which complements its channels business. CTE is also the exclusive sales agent for Hollywood studio Lionsgate in Greater China and Southeast Asia, and represents Lionsgate’s television content and vast feature film library in Japan and Korea as well.

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.


About Cable Thai Holding

Cable Thai Holding, Plc. or CTH was founded in 2009 by over 100 cable TV operators from all over Thailand in order to improve and provide quality contents to Thai viewers. Today, there are more than 3.5 million households or over 12 million viewers nationwide watching CTH programs.

Under the new National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission of Thailand’s new regulations to turn analogue signal to digital signal, there is a need for CTH to go beyond the content acquisition arm of the Association. The management saw the opportunity to build the business beyond cable TV by developing their own optical fiber network covering the whole country. Thus, CTH becomes a broadband cable operator and platform management, distributing variety of customized digital data such as Cable TV Broadcasting, Broadband Internet, and other related products & services for individuals and business customers.