CASBAA Honors Subhash Chandra

Hong Kong, Nov 5, 2009 - (ACN Newswire) - The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) today honored Subhash Chandra, the chairman of Zee Entertainment Enterprises 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 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 Global Entertainment, Macquarie Group, MTV Networks Asia, NBC Universal Networks Asia Pacific, NDS, now TV, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies, SES WORLD SKIES, SingTel, Sony Pictures Television International, STAR Group, Tiger Gate Entertainment, Tom Group, TrueVisions, Turner International Asia Pacific and VOOM HD Networks 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