CASBAA growing with industry

Hong Kong, July 1st, 2006 – At the close of the first half of the year, the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced an additional two Patron Members of the Association along with two new Corporate memberships.

The new Patron Members are the newly-established Asian office of Granada International and Beijing-based Motorola Mobile Devices C North Asia. The new CASBAA corporate members are Echostar International and the Hong Kong office of the law firm, Lovells.

“These new memberships highlight a re-invigorated environment for the Asia Pacific pay-TV industry as we reach out via the new distribution opportunities,” said Simon Twiston Davies, the CASBAA CEO.

When confirming the new memberships, CASBAA also announced that during the June 20th meeting of the CASBAA Council Governors in Singapore, James Ross had been re-elected to the CASBAA Board of Directors in his new role as the representative of Granada International, along with newly directors Sompan Charumalinda of Thai pay-TV platform operator UBC True and Nic Van Zwanenberg of BBC Worldwide.

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“We are particularly pleased to welcome Khun Sompan and Nic Van Zwanenberg to the CASBAA Board of Directors as they bring new perspectives to the Associations management,” said CASBAA Chairman, Marcel Fenez, “We are also particularly pleased with the continuing participation of James Ross, now with Granada. The Association continues to evolve in line with market development.”

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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 International (History Channel), AsiaSat, Astro (Malaysia), Bloomberg Television, China Entertainment Television, Comverse, Discovery Networks Asia, EMC, HBO Asia, IBM, Macquarie, MTV Networks Asia Pacific, Nokia, now Broadband TV, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sony Pictures Television International, STAR Group, Sun Microsystems, Turner International Asia Pacific, UBC (Thailand), Walt Disney Television International, Zone Vision, AGB Nielsen, Al Jazeera, Asian Food Channel, BBC World, ESPN STAR Sports, HSBC Bank, Intelsat, JSAT, National Geographic, Starhub, TimeWarner and TVBI.

Contact:
Rebecca Kennedy/ Katie Wong
Communications
CASBAA
Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2854 9913
Fax: (852) 2854 9530
Email: pr@casbaa.com