New Channel Chiefs Elected to CASBAA Board

HONG KONG, November 12:
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has
announced the results of its 2007 Annual General Meeting elections in Hong
Kong, and the re-election of Marcel Fenez to a two-year term as chairman of the
association.

Newly elected to the
CASBAA Board of Directors were Tom Keaveny, the executive VP and managing
director of Discovery Networks Asia; Todd Miller, the executive VP and managing
director for Asia at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI); and Anthony
Tse, the president of China Entertainment Television Broadcast.

Those retaining their
seats on the CASBAA board include Jonathan Spink, the CEO of HBO Asia; Peter
Jackson, the CEO of AsiaSat; Sompan Charumilinda, the executive vice chairman
of TrueVisions; and William Pfeiffer, the CEO of Celestial Movies. Ian Carroll,
senior VP and general manager at Turner International Asia Pacific, was also
re-elected for a second two-year term as a CASBAA board director.

The following were elected
to the CASBAA Council of Governors, the association’s most senior advisory
body: Stephen Ng, the chairman, president and CEO of HK Cable TV; Christine
Leo-McKerrow, the senior VP of BBC Global Channels Asia; Manu Sawhney, the
managing director of ESPN STAR Sports; Mike Reynolds, the president of StarHub;
Sue Taylor, the VP and general manager of NDS; Surh Dong Koo, the president and
CEO of KDB SkyLife; Alexander Muller, the managing director of TV5MONDE Asia;
Andrew Jordan, the VP and general manager at SAT-GE; Mark Patterson, the CEO of
GroupM; Craig Harvey, the director of media research at Synovate; Michelle
Guthrie, the managing director of Providence Equity Asia; Nick Pilbeam, the
managing director and founder of ITSun Limited; Paul Brown-Kenyon, the COO of
MEASAT; and Gregg Creevey.

Stepping down from the
CASBAA Board of Directors are Nic van Zwanenberg, the regional director of
distribution and business development at BBC Global Channels; James Ross, the
regional director at Granada International; and Tom Choi, co-founder and CEO of
Asia Broadcast Satellite.

According to Fenez, 2008
will see the association focus on the increasing impact of mobile technologies
and the further development of pay-TV advertising. He also noted that the
association should step up initiatives in India and China, while continuing to
engage with the regulatory authorities in multiple markets and promote industry
development in Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and India, among others.

"The next 12 months
promise to provide a banner year for the pay-TV industry across the region and
CASBAA's role will be to support industry growth where ever it can," said
Fenez.

—By Ned Berke