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AXN (Asia)

Country	Singapore
Broadcast area	Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
Network	KC Global Media Asia
Headquarters	Number 10, Changi Business Park Central 2 #03-01, Hansapoint @ Changi Business Park, Changi, Singapore
Programming
Language(s)	English Malay Indonesian Mandarin Chinese Tamil Cantonese Thai Vietnamese (Subtitles)
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Ownership
Owner	Sony Pictures Entertainment (2004-2020) KC Global Media Asia Entertainment
Sister channels	Animax ONE
History
Launched	21 September 1997; 27 years ago (1997-09-21)
Links
Website	www.axn-asia.com
Availability
Terrestrial
LaoSat TV	LCN
K+	LCN 11629 H
LaoSat TV	LCN
MNC Vision Indonesia	LCN 2535
Airtel digital TV	Formerly LCN 162 (added 31 Dec 2017)

AXN is an pan-Asian pay television channel owned by KC Global Media Asia, which is based in Singapore. It primarily airs action, police procedural, and crime-arrested shows, mostly came from North America. The network was formerly wholly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, but the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa channels were sold to KC Global Media in January 2020.

Programming

AXN's focus is the broadcast of American and British television programs. The programs are sourced from Sony Pictures Television, CBS Studios International, NBC Universal Television and Fremantle. These sources allow AXN to broadcast television program episodes on the same day they are broadcast in the United States. New, popular American movies are purchased from Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures. AXN also broadcasts programs specific to Southeast Asian audiences.

Anime programmes

Upon its launch, in the late 1990s and early 21st century, AXN used to broadcast several anime series, many of them in Japanese audio with English subtitles and held annual anime festivals around Southeast Asia. Its anime programming would later be moved to Animax Asia in 2004, the preparations for which Sony had been planning since the late 1990s. In the last quarter of 2010, selected English-dubbed anime programs from Animax Asia were broadcast during mornings and late-afternoon. This feed was then made available in the Philippines only, but was discontinued in August 2016 as AXN would focus on its main programming.

Original productions

• Adventure Your Way - adventure show; hosted by Atom Araullo
• The Amazing Race Asia - a local version of the American reality competition series The Amazing Race; the fifth season premiered in 2016.
• The Apartment
• The Apprentice Asia - premiered in 2013, revived as The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition in 2021.
• Asia's Got Talent - premiered in 2015; second season premiered in 2017; third season to air in late 2018.
• Cash Cab Asia
• The Contender Asia - Muay Thai boxing reality show similar to The Contender; season 1 premiered on January 16, 2008
• The Duke - men's lifestyle magazine talk show; season 1 premiered in 2009
• e-Buzz - entertainment news show, hosted by Jaymee Ong; ended
• The Kitchen Musical (was available in Singapore)
• Sony Style - lifestyle and entertainment magazine show sponsored by Sony; seasons two and three hosted by Oli Pettigrew
• Ultimate Escape - holiday adventure show; the first season aired from October 29, 2007, to November 19, 2007

Feeds

There are two feeds for the channel. One is aimed only at viewers in Hong Kong and Thailand, the other is aimed towards the rest of the region. Programming on both feeds are the same, with the exception of local advertising. The Philippine feed also sometimes modifies its own programming due to broadcast issues.

• AXN Southeast Asia (based in Singapore)
• AXN Korea (joint venture with CU Media. Airs Local shows along with international shows)
• AXN Philippines (separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements, and movies)
• AXN Taiwan (separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements, and movies)

Former feeds

• AXN India
• AXN Japan (separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements, sales to Nojima in 2021 and relaunced as Action Channel [ja] used subtitles in October 2023)
• AXN Mystery Japan (separated from the SEA feed including local advertisements, sales to Nojima in 2021 and relaunced as Mystery Channel [ja] used subtitles in October 2023)
• AXN Beyond (later known as BeTV, Sony Channel; now defunct)

AXN HD

AXN first launched its high-definition feed in Korea on 1 March 2009 which was later made available in Singapore on StarHub TV on 25 May 2010. In Malaysia, it was launched on 16 June 2010 on Astro and 1 October 2023 on NJOI. In Thailand it was launched on 12 July 2011 on TrueVisions; in India it was made available on Videocon D2H on 19 July 2014. The HD feed premiered in Sri Lanka on Dialog TV 2013. In the Philippines it was launched on 20 April 2015 on SkyCable, Sky Direct, Cignal and Singtel TV in Singapore.

See also

• Animax
• AXN
• AXN Beyond (former TV channel)
• BeTV (former TV channel)
• Sony Channel (Asia) (former TV channel known as SET South East Asia)
• ONE
• GEM (former TV channel)

References

1. "GET AXN". AXN Asia. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
2. Littleton, Cynthia (7 January 2020). "Sony Pictures Sells Asia Channels to Former Executives Andy Kaplan and George Chien (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
3. Magz Ozbourne (1 December 2007). "AXN – Evolution". Television Asia. Archived from the original on 5 January 2009. Retrieved 30 September 2009.
4. ^ Flagg, Michael (27 September 2000). "Singapore's AXN Cable Channel Brings Action to Stagnant Market". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 30 September 2009.
5. "The Amazing Race Asia is back after six years". The New Paper. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
6. Donato, Jerry. "Born to play on The Apprentice Asia". philstar.com. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
7. "Asia's Got Talent Season 2 premiere topped ratings in Singapore". Asian Television Awards. 24 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
8. ‘Reality television is here to stay’
9. The Duke at Telebisyon.net Archived February 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
10. "EBuzz". AXN Asia. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
11. Sony Style website Archived March 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
12. AXN Ultimate Escape Archived October 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
13. AXN HD in Singapore Archived May 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
14. AXN HD in Malaysia Archived June 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Official website
• Official India website Archived 2014-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Official Taiwan website (in Chinese)
• Official Japan website (in Japanese)
• AXN Asia Schedule
• AXN Asia on YouTube

• Television
• Asia
• Media

• Television stations in Singapore
• AXN
• Sony Pictures Television
• Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Television channels and stations established in 1997