AsiaSat Chief Honored with CASBAA Prize

HONG KONG, October 27: Peter Jackson, the CEO of satellite
system operator AsiaSat, has been presented the CASBAA Chairman’s Award for his
contributions to the Asia-Pacific cable, satellite and broadband TV markets
over the past year.

Jackson has been a member of CASBAA for almost all of the
association’s 15-year history and a member of the Board of Directors for seven
years.

Marcel Fenez, the Chairman of CASBAA, commented, “For more
than a decade Peter Jackson has been an outstanding executive in one of our
industry’s most commercially and technically challenging
sectors—satellite services. With his pan-regional responsibilities and a
background in telecommunications, Peter has developed an almost unique
understanding of media and telecoms issues which has hugely benefited our
industry and the association.”

The other nominees for the 2006 CASBAA Chairman’s Award were
HBO, Nokia, PCCW’s now TV platform, STAR, Singaporean cable outfit StarHub and Marketing
Magazine.