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• Cabler names CFO.(HONG KONG)(William Kwan appointed as chief financial officer)(I-Cable Communications)(Brief Article)

  - 2006-01-03

  I-Cable Communications appointed William Kwan as chief financial officer. Kwan will replace Sam Wong, who ankled Friday. I-Cable Communications is Hong Kong's No. 1 pay TV operator. It also has a film venture called Sundream Motion Pictures.

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• New corporate and programming initiatives for i-Cable.(Announcements)

  - 2006-01-01

  Hong Kong: i-Cable Communications Limited (i-Cable) implements a package of corporate re-organisation and programming initiatives. These initiatives target i-Cable's market expansion. The re-organisation involves the formation of three wholly-owned operating subsidiaries--i-Cable News Limited, i-Cable Sports Limited and i-Cable Entertainment Limited--which are grouped under i-Cable Media...

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• Hong Kong's i-Cable subs pass 700,000 mark.(Asia's television industry is talking about ...)(financial reports of i-Cable Communications Ltd.)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-04-01

  i-Cable Communications Ltd, which operates Hong Kong's dominant pay-TV platform, has reported a 29% increase in profits for 2004 and an increase of 7% in pay-TV subscribers to 702,000. Net profit rose to US$36.4 million, from US$28 million for the previous year. ARPU was up by...

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• Hong Kong's i-Cable Communications Limited has signed a multi-year deal with the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) for television services aboard KCRC trains' Passenger Information Display System (PIDS).(Asia's television industry is talking about

  - 2005-04-01

  Hong Kong's i-Cable Communications Limited has signed a multi-year deal with the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation KCRC for television services aboard KCRC trains' Passenger Information Display System PIDS. Hong Kong Cable News Express Ltd HKCNE, a wholly owned subsidiary of i-Cable, will be the sole content provider...

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• Paint by numbers.(comment & contents)(Editorial)

  - 2004-09-01

  Asia's multichannel TV industry has started for real along the road towards the much anticipated pay-TV capacity boom. And that's just one of a string of the most hopeful signs in ages. Even if it all collapses about us eventually, what is clear as we head for...

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• Hong Kong Cable numbers up 55%.(Asia's television industry is talking about ...)(I-Cable Communications)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-09-01

  i-Cable Communications, the operator of Hong Kong's dominant pay-TV platform, has reported a net profit increase of 55% to US$19 million for the six months to 30 June 2004. Turnover increased by 11% to US$148 million. TV subscribers grew 9% year-on-year to 682,000. ARPU increased to...

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• Sporting chances.(comment & contents)

  - 2004-07-01

  NOW Broadband TV scored more than a programming coup in Hong Kong when it signed up exclusive rights for Asia's top two regional sports channels--ESPN and Star Sports. What the Pacific Century CyberWorks-owned service also did with the deal, which kicks in on August 17 this...

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• HK to finish cable upgrade ahead of schedule.(Finance & Business)

  - 2004-01-01

  Hong Kong's leading pay TV provider i-Cable Communications is to finish upgrading its network one year ahead of schedule. Digitisation of existing analogue cable network is now planned for completion in May 2004. Company claims decrease in cost of set-top boxes STBs from HK$6,200 ($800) to...

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• Cable manners: Hong Kong Cable TV crossed the 10-year mark at the end of October. Janine Stein asked cable boss, Stephen Ng, about a decade at the helm of an operation where business never seems to get any easier no matter how many problems are solved.(an

  - 2003-12-01

  If he had to do it all over again, i-Cable Communications' boss, Stephen Ng, says he wouldn't have taken the job, Is he joking? Perhaps not. As Hong Kong's dominant pay-TV platform celebrated its 10th anniversary on October 31, 2003, the company...

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• Fight school.(Comment)(Hong Kong's two new broadband players are little more than warm-up acts to pay-TV's big battle between incumbent, i-Cable Communications' Hong Kong Cable TV, and new Intelsat-TVB direct-to-home satellite platform, Galaxy. )

  - 2003-09-01

  Despite the obvious advantages of television choice especially for niche channels, Hong Kong's two new broadband players are little more than warm-up acts to pay-TV's big battle between incumbent, i-Cable Communications' Hong Kong Cable TV, and new Intelsat-TVB direct-to-home satellite platform, Galaxy. ...

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