Hong Kong, December 12th, 2005 — The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) today announced results of 2005 Annual General Meeting elections in Singapore to the CASBAA Council of Governors, the CASBAA Board of Directors and the chairmanship for 2006/2007.
Marcel Fenez, Asia Pacific Leader, Entertainment and Media Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, was re-elected for a two-year term as Chairman of the Association, while James Ross, Media Marketing Director for Bloomberg Television and Ian Carroll, Senior VP and GM, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, were elected for two-year terms to the CASBAA Board of Directors.
Re-elected to the CASBAA Board were Michelle Guthrie, CEO of STAR Group, Francois Theron, COO of UBC and Alexander Brown, President and CEO of CNBC Asia. Remaining on the CASBAA Board of Directors 2006 for the second year of two-year terms are Peter Jackson, CEO of AsiaSat, William Pfeiffer, CEO of Celestial Pictures, and Jonathan Spink, CEO of HBO Asia.
The following were elected to the CASBAA Council of Governors, the Associations most senior advisory body: Ted McFarland, VP Asia Pacific of ILS, Stephen Ng, Chairman, President and CEO of Hong Kong Cable Television, Jamie Davis, Managing Director of ESPN STAR Sports, Anthony Tse, GM Corporate Development of TOM Group, Paul Brown-Kenyon, COO of Measat, Sue Taylor, VP and GM Asia Pacific of NDS, Steve Garton, Director of Media Research at Synovate, Andrew Jordan, MD of Loft Communications, David Ball, VP Asia Pacific of PanAmSat, Mark Patterson, CEO North Asia of GroupM and Yong Lum Sung, COO of StarHub.
Stepping down from the CASBAA Board of Directors was Steve Marcopoto, President of Turner International Asia Pacific.
“CASBAA would particularly like to thank Steve for his long-term contributions to the Association during his years of service to the industry,” said Mr Fenez. “At the same time, we will benefit greatly from the commitment of our new Board Members Ian Carroll and James Ross.
“And our Council of Governors continues to grow in terms of senior industry-wide representation, with new input from the research, satellite communications and software solutions sectors.”
In the past 12 months CASBAA has continued to improve its credibility as a clear voice for the industry, said Mr Fenez. The Association has not only published groundbreaking studies on both the benefits of effective regulation and the cost of pay-TV piracy but has significantly enhanced the dialogue with governments and regulators across the region.
For 2006, CASBAAs priorities will remain the fight against pay-TV piracy, the promotion of pay-TV advertising and fostering industry development and new technologies across multiple markets.
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The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia is an industry-based advocacy group dedicated to the promotion of multi-channel TV via cable, satellite, broadband and wireless video networks across the Asia-Pacific. CASBAA represents some 110 Asia-based corporations, which in turn serve more than three billion people. Members include ABC Asia Pacific, ABN AMRO, AETN, AsiaSat, Astro, Bloomberg Television, China Entertainment Television, CSG Systems, Discovery Networks Asia, EMC, HBO Asia, IBM, MTV Networks Asia Pacific, Nokia, now Broadband TV, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sony Pictures Television International, STAR Group, Sun Microsystems, Turner International Asia Pacific, UBC, Walt Disney Television International, Zone Vision, AGB Nielsen, Anytime, Arianespace, Asian Food Channel, BBC Prime, Celestial Movies, CSM, ESPN Star Sports, Harmonic, Irdeto, MEASAT, MindShare, National Geographic, NDS, Tom Group, PanAmSat, Paul Weiss, Synovate and Time Warner.
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