iflix, Southeast Asia’s leading Internet TV service, has teamed up with ABS-CBN Corp. as part of its strategy to offer local entertainment content.
The Lopez-led broadcasting company under the agreement will provide over 1,500 hours of classic television shows and hit movies from ABS-CBN Teleseryes, Star Cinema Movies, and Cinema One Original Productions to iflix’s vast library.
“The demand for our existing local program offering has been exceptional. The addition of ABS-CBN movies and TV series enables us to now provide the most extensive selection of Filipino content available in the region, as part of our commitment to bring the best in both local and international entertainment to as many devices and homes as possible,” iflix Philippines country manager Sherwin dela Cruz,, said.
iflix members from April 1 will have unlimited access to many of ABS-CBN’s most popular TV classics, including Maging Sino Ka Man, Lobo, Tayong Dalawa, Ina Kapatid Anak and Walang Hanggan.
Star Cinema movies will also be available each month, such as One More Chance, A Very Special Love, You Changed My Life, It Takes a Man and a Woman, The Mistress and On The Job.
iflix, which plans to to roll out the service across Southeast Asia, is 7.5 percent owned by Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. after investing $15 million.
Other owners are the Catcha Group, Sky PLC, Europe’s leading entertainment company, and Indonesian company Emtek Group, through its subsidiary PT Surya Citra Media Tbk (SCMA).
iflix chairman Patrick Grove earlier said the company was looking at Indonesia, Vietnam and and planned to enter the Middle East and Africa this year.
The Internet TV service as of end-2015 had a total of over a million subscribers, the majority of which are in the Philippines.