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Marcel Fenez Re-elected Chairman of CASBAA

 

HONG KONG, Dec. 13, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) re-elected on Monday Marcel Fenez, Asia Pacific Leader, Entertainment and Media Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, for another two-year term as chairman of the association.

 

James Ross, media marketing director for Bloomberg Television, and Ian Carroll, senior VP and GM, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, were elected for two-year terms to the CASBAA board of directors.

 

Re-elected to the CASBAA board were Michelle Guthrie, CEO of STAR Group, Francois Theron, COO of UBC, and Alexander Brown, president and CEO of CNBC Asia. Remaining on the CASBAA board of 2006 for the second year of two-year terms are Peter Jackson, CEO of AsiaSat, William Pfeiffer, CEO of Celestial Pictures, and Jonathan Spink, CEO of HBO Asia.

 

The following were also elected to the CASBAA council of governors, the association’s most senior advisory body: Ted McFarland, VP Asia Pacific of ILS, Stephen Ng, chairman, president and CEO of Hong Kong Cable Television, Jamie Davis, managing director, ESPN STAR Sports, Anthony Tse, GM corporate development, TOM Group, Paul Brown-Kenyon, COO of Measat, Sue Taylor, VP and GM Asia Pacific of NDS, Steve Garton, director of Media Research at Synovate, Andrew Jordan, MD of Loft Communications, Mark Patterson, CEO North Asia of GroupM, and Yong Lum Sung, president of StarHub.

 

During the past 12 months CASBAA continued to improve its credibility as a clear voice for the industry, said Fenez. “The Association has not only published groundbreaking studies on both the benefits of effective regulation and the cost of pay-TV piracy but has significantly enhanced the dialogue with governments and regulators across the region,” he said.

 

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