MICO is a media channel based in Singapore. It produces television episodes and feature films for an audience of mainly Asian viewers. It uses the internet to deliver its digital content and it charges a yearly fee for accessing it. The company began in 2005 when Charles Lee, the former president of a bank, decided to form a production company that would specialize in current news and sporting events. The channel also provides business coverage and attempts to compete with American channels in providing updated information and analysis by hiring top candidates for its shows. When the company was first started, in only broadcast its shows and movies in Singapore, but now it has chosen to make its shows available to North America and Europe and most parts of Asia as well.
The main shows on the channel are Asia News and Maki Mora. Asia News is a traditional program that aims to inform viewers on political and economic issues, as well as current crime events, by offering objective facts and sometimes professional opinions from various sides of an issue. It runs every day from Monday to Friday and is the flagship program. A scripted show called Maki Mora is a travel and cooking show that receives high ratings from viewers. It features adventures by professional hunters and fishers in Southeast Asia as they attempt to compete for the best catch of the day. It also follows Ramir Hyiu who walks through food markets and narrates his findings for the viewer.
