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GUILLAUME COFFIN VP Head of Commercial and Business Development Turner broadcasts a number of hugely successful channels in various territories; which would you say are the strongest performing channels in the African markets in which you operate? In Africa, Turner operates six channels across the continent in 56 English, French and Portuguese speaking countries which include the internationally re-known news source CNN International, Africa’s favourite kids’ channels with Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Boing and Toonami, as well as Africa’s tailored blockbusters destination, TNT, and now the newly launched Adult Swim channel, dedicated to millennials and available on Showmax. Our kids’ channels, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, reach more than 20 million people in South Africa alone and have been leading and gaining market share within the pay-tv kids industry for almost four years in a row. Turner’s kids multiplex has recently reached new heights, recording a 13.3 % market share in Q3

Zany aliens romp through Earth in search of the perfect beat when Beat Monsters, Turner Broadcasting’s largest animation project in South Korea, touches down across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa next year. It’s an important development, as Korea transitions from service work and subcontracting jobs from Western companies into locally created ideas. As Cartoon Brew reported earlier this year, South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is investing well over $300 million through 2019 into its domestic animation industry. Turner’s team-up with Korea’s Synergy Media and Studio Goindol on Beat Monsters is a formative step in that direction. The international co-production will create 52 two-minute shorts (plus additional micro-shorts) that blend CGI with live-action elements. Scheduled to begin airing in late 2016, Beat Monsters will appear on Turner’s kids’ channels across Asia Pacific, including Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Toonami, as well as Cartoon Networ