CASBAA Honors Subhash Chandra.Hong Kong, Nov 5, 2009 - (ACN ACN Accenture (stock symbol) ACN Accenture ACN Australian Company Number ACN Automatic Collision Notification (US DOT) ACN Acetonitrile ACN Anglican Communion Network Newswire) - The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA CASBAA Cable and Satellite Broadcasters Association of Asia ) today honored Subhash Chandra, the chairman of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Zee Network (aka Zee Telefilms Ltd.) is the largest media and entertainment company in India. It owns over 20 different television channels, a cable company (SitiCable), a record label (Zee Records), a production company and other businesses as well. Ltd, with a special award for his "Lifetime Contribution to the Asian Pay-TV Industry". Marcel Fenez, theChairman of CASBAA said: "Subhash Chandra's contribution has been critical to the extraordinary achievements of India's pay-TV industry in the last 15 years. CASBAA and the industry applaud Mr. Chandra's outstanding merits." In receipt of the award on the opening day of the CASBAA Convention 2009 in Hong Kong Mr. Chandra said: "The achievement is not my own. Many others have made this possible, most notably my old colleagues Ronnie Screwvala of UTV UTV Ulster Television UTV Utility Terrain Vehicle UTV Unmanned Transport Vehicle Software, Prannoy Roy, the Chairman of NDTVand Raghav Bahl who now leads Network 18 Group. "Without teamwork, cooperation and investment from within India we'd never have had an industry that is able to contribute so much to India and the rest of Asia." About CASBAA The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) 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 130 member organisations in the pay-TV business, which in turn serve more than three billion people. Patron members include Al Jazeera, Asia Broadcast Satellite, AsiaSat, ASTRO, Australia Network, Bloomberg Television, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Disney-ABC International Television (Asia-Pacific), Genesis Networks, HBO Asia, Intelsat, Irdeto, ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). Global Entertainment, Macquarie Group, MTV Networks Asia MTV Networks Asia Pacific comprises three distinctly branded channels, MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1 in the Asia pacific region reaching more than 300 million households. Since its inception in 1995, MTV Networks Asia Pacific has been providing localized channels for young audiences , NBC Universal Networks Asia Pacific, NDS, now TV, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies, SES WORLD SKIES, SingTel, Sony Pictures Television Sony Pictures Television, Inc. (SPT) is an American television production and distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In turn, the latter is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. International, STAR Group, Tiger Gate Entertainment, Tom Group, TrueVisions, Turner International Asia Pacific and VOOM HD Networks Voom HD Networks are a group of 15 original high-definition television channels that are owned by Rainbow Media, a subsidiary of Cablevision. The channels are produced in true High Definition with Dolby Digital 5. Asia. To view the full list of CASBAA members, please visit here. For more information, please visit www.casbaa.com. Source: CASBAA Contact: Rita Vannithone Director Marketing & Communications, CASBAA Tel: +852 2854 9940 Email: rita@casbaa.com Helen Shek Manager Communications, CASBAA Tel: +852 2854 9943 Email: helen@casbaa.com Copyright 2009 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. |
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