Hong Kong, December 13, 2006 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) today announced its strategic direction for 2007, as well as the results of 2006 Annual General Meeting elections to the CASBAA Council of Governors and Board of Directors.
According to Marcel Fenez, CASBAA Chairman, in 2007 the Association is to focus on the increasing impact of Mobile technology, also noting a clear signal from the Council of Governors to step up initiatives in India and China. CASBAA will continue to engage the regulatory authorities in multiple markets and promote industry development in Indonesia, Vietnam and Pakistan among others. In addition, CASBAA will strive to demonstrate the effectiveness of pay-TV as an advertising medium and thus challenge other traditional media for advertising revenues.
Marcel Fenez noted that in the past 12 months CASBAA had been consistently consulted by government, media and the community at large on market structure and regulatory issues.
“On an almost daily basis CASBAA is engaging with decision-makers across the region regarding regulatory and intellectual property rights issues while maintaining a steady output of studies on markets and the benefits of effective regulation and the cost of pay-TV piracy,” said Marcel Fenez.
CASBAA also announced that the following were newly elected to the CASBAA Council of Governors, the Association’s leading advisory body: Craig Zimbulis, President and COO of Anytime; Garie Pimentel, President and CEO of Mabuhay Satellite; Ian Barnard, President of MIH Asia; Juno Henares Chuidian, Head of Programmes Acquisition of SkyVision Corporation (Sky Cable); Malcolm Spry, CEO of AGB Nielsen Media Research and Susan Ho, Head of Creative, Media and Tech Industries, Client Relations of Standard Chartered Bank. Re-elected to the Council were: Christine Fellowes, MD of E! Entertainment HK; Hugh Stephens, SVP International relations & Strategic Policy, Asia-Pacific of Time Warner; Jeanette Chan, Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Jeremy Pink, CEO/GM of CNBC Asia; Nic van Zwanenberg, Regional Director, Distribution and Business Development of BBC World; Nigel Francis (Individual); PJ Wong, Founder, Chairman and CEO of iMediaHouse; Thierry Raymaekers, GM, Sales and Marketing of Irdeto; and William Pfeiffer, CEO of Celestial Pictures.
The results of Elections to the CASBAA Board of Directors were as follows: Jonathan Spink, CEO of HBO Asia; Peter Jackson, CEO of AsiaSat; Sompan Charumilinda, EVP-Chairman, United Broadcasting Corporation; Nic van Zwanenberg, Regional Director, Distribution and Business Development of BBC World and William Pfeiffer, CEO of Celestial Pictures, were re-elected.
Retaining seats on the CASBAA Board of Directors 2006 for the second year of two-year terms are Ian Carroll, SVP and GM, Turner International Asia Pacific; James Ross, Regional Director, Granada International/ITV Worldwide; Marcel Fenez, Asia-Pacific Leader, Entertainment and Media Practice PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michelle Guthrie, CEO of STAR Group.
Stepping down from the CASBAA Council of Governors was Jeanne Marie Gescher, President of Claydon Gescher Associates and Karl Rossiter, CTO of Zieland Productions.
“CASBAA would like to thank Jeanne-Marie and Karl and for their outstanding commitment and contributions to the Association and to the industry” said Mr. Fenez, adding that industry-wide representation continues to be a strong feature of the CASBAA Council of Governors.
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To view the full list of the 2007 CASBAA Council of Governors, please go to http://www.casbaa.com/cog.htm.
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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 ABN AMRO, AETN International (History Channel), Asia Broadcast Networks, Asia Broadcast Satellite, AsiaSat, Astro (Malaysia), Australia Network, Bloomberg Television, Comverse, Chunghwa Telecom, Discovery Networks Asia, Granada, EMC, HBO Asia, IBM, Macquarie Bank, MTV Networks Asia Pacific, Nokia, now TV, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sony Pictures Television International, STAR Group, Sun Microsystems, Turner International Asia Pacific, UBC True, Walt Disney Television International, Zonemedia, Anytime, BBC Global Channels, BBC World, ESPN STAR Sports, Eurosports, Hallmark Channel, Indovision, Intelsat, Irdeto, Kabelvision, Harmonic, Lovells, Mabuhay, Motorola, National Geographic, Paul Weiss, Seagate, Shin Satellite, Standard Chartered Bank, Synovate and TimeWarner.
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