| 28 June 2006, New Delhi - ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s
number one sports broadcaster today announced new appointments to
its management team with Sharon van Zwieten taking on the role of
Executive Producer, News. She takes over from Dez Corkhill, who has
moved on to a new role as Executive Producer, Mobile Production.
Sharon will be based in Singapore with region-wide responsibility
for the network’s award winning sports news programme, SportsCenter.
She will report directly to Huw Bevan, Senior Vice-President, Production.
Sharon is an all-around international communications professional
and brings over more than 20 years of experience in broadcast, broadband,
online and print media. She began her broadcast career as a reporter,
assignment editor and anchor in Iowa, USA, working for KDUB-TV.
She later took up News Producer roles across the US before her appointment
as Director of Public Relations and Communications for CyberSpace
Solutions in Illinois, USA.
The lure of broadcast journalism proved too hard to resist for
Sharon and she packed her bags for Asia, with an appointment as
Producer for CNBC/Asia Business News where she created and produced
dot.com, a weekly half hour show about the Internet. Sharon later
joined CNN International in Hong Kong as a Writer and Producer for
CNN This Morning Asia.
Sharon moved back to the USA in 2000 where she joined CNN in Atlanta,
as Supervising Producer and Executive Producer, where she supervised
the newsroom and helped launch Daybreak, CNN’s early morning
newscast.
Before joining ESPN STAR Sports, she was Senior Executive Producer
at CNN in New York.
Sharon holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and History from the
University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in Journalism from Northwestern
University.
ESPN STAR Sports is a 50:50 joint venture between two of the world’s
leading cable and satellite broadcasters, ESPN Inc. and STAR. We
are Asia’s complete sports provider reaching over 138 million
households for ESPN and over 63 million households for STAR Sports.
We have 13 networks - ESPN Asia, ESPN India, ESPN Taiwan, ESPN Philippines,
MBC-ESPN (Korea), ESPN Singapore, ESPN Hong Kong, STAR Sports Asia,
STAR Sports India, STAR Sports Taiwan, STAR Sports Singapore, STAR
Sports S.E.A and STAR Sports Hong Kong. We bring the world’s
premier live sports and leading regional events to viewers 24 hours
a day. On the ground, the ESPN STAR Sports Event Management Group
manages and promotes premier sporting events around Asia, including
the Asian X Games and the San Miguel Asian 9Ball Tour. On- ine,
espnstar.com,
espnstar.com.cn
and espnstar.com.tw
interact with millions of users providing them with in-depth sports
news, results and competitions. This multilingual, online platform
which is closely integrated with ESPN and STAR Sports on air networks,
has established the sites as the number one on-line sports destination
in their respective markets.
For further information, please contact:
Bhaskar Majumdar, Manager - Corporate Communications, 9811194244,
Email: bhaskarm@espnstar.co.in Or Tarundeep Singh, IPAN at 011-
42492100,
9811017310 Email: tarundeep.singh@ipan.com
For the latest schedules and programme information visit www.espnstar.com
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