Liu Changle, Dick Wolf to Receive International Emmy Awards

CANNES, April 7: Phoenix
Satellite Television’s Liu Changle and Law & Order creator Dick Wolf are to receive the International
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Directorate Award and Founders
Award, respectively, at the International Emmy Awards gala on November 24.

The International Emmy
Directorate Award is given to organizations or individuals for their
outstanding contributions, over a period of time, to the arts and sciences of
international television. Phoenix Satellite Television was formed in March
1996, when Liu’s Today’s Asia teamed up with Rupert Murdoch’s STAR TV and China
Wise International. Phoenix went public in 2000 and is listed on the Hong Kong
Growth Enterprise Market. The company has expanded from a single
general-entertainment channel to an integrated multimedia group with five
networks broadcasting in Mandarin Chinese and covering more than 150 countries
around the world.

"One of Asia’s leading
broadcast entrepreneurs, Liu Changle is the catalyst behind the wide-ranging
success of Phoenix Television,” said Bruce L. Paisner, the president and CEO of
the International Academy. “In the last 12 years he has grown Phoenix into a
multimedia empire and we are honored to be recognizing his accomplishments with
our 2008 Directorate Award.”

“This is definitely the
most impressive and inspiring award I have ever been granted,” said Liu
Changle, Phoenix’s chairman and CEO. “To receive the International Emmy
Directorate Award from The International Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences is not only a great honor for me personally, but it also represents
the recognition by an authoritative international group of fellow television
professionals of the achievements of Phoenix Satellite Television after 12
years of hard work. I am deeply touched and encouraged.”

Past recipients of the
International Emmy Directorate Award include TF1’s Patrick Le Lay, Central
European Media Enterprises and its founder and chairman, Ronald S. Lauder, and
the U.K.’s ITV plc.

Meanwhile, Dick Wolf will
receive the 2008 International Emmy Founders Award. “Dick Wolf's classic
television series have transcended cultural boundaries for the last 25 years,”
said Paisner. “Law & Order
is the longest-running drama series currently on American television and a
major international success with brand licenses in more than 300 territories
and localized versions in France, Russia and the U.K. We are proud to be
presenting him with the 2008 Founders Award in recognition of his creative
accomplishments.”

“This is a true honor,”
Wolf said. “The world of television is becoming increasingly more global and I
am grateful that The International Academy is recognizing the impact of the Law
& Order brand around the
world.”

—By Mansha Daswani