16 November 2005, Singapore: ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s number one sports broadcaster today announced the promotion of Tom McVeigh to the position of Senior Vice President, Operations and Technology. McVeigh was previously the network’s Vice President, Operations and Engineering.
He remains based in Singapore with region-wide responsibility for all operations and technology matters related to the 13 ESPN and STAR Sports channels across Asia and will continue to report directly to Jamie Davis, Managing Director of the network.
McVeigh joined ESPN STAR Sports in November 1998 as Director of Operations before being promoted to Vice President of Operations and Engineering in December 2000. In his new role as Senior Vice President, he will assume an expanded role, which includes the technical and operational development of several strategic new business initiatives.
Jamie Davis, Managing Director, ESPN STAR Sports said, ” The breadth and depth of Tom’s knowledge and experience reaches across our entire organization. Over the past seven years that he has been with ESPN STAR Sports, Tom spearheaded the modernization and upgrade of our transmission facilities to enable the growth of our services to the current 13 that are distributed across Asia today. Tom will be instrumental in developing the infrastructure for us to enter a new phase of expansion as we deploy various new media initiatives, which include wireless and broadband applications, to sports fans across Asia.”
Tom’s broadcasting career spanning two decades began with Television New Zealand (TVNZ) where he worked for several years in transmission, microwave system maintenance, studio installation, vision/pulse maintenance as well as MCR Operations. He then assumed the position of Technical Director before being promoted to Supervisor of the combined group of Technical Producers and Technical Directors. Not long after, he was appointed Head of Operations TVNZ and later became General Manager Operations for the company.
Tom leads the largest staff base within the ESPN STAR Sports network and heads a management team that is responsible for Engineering, Transmission, Studio Operations, Satellite Operations, Editing, Commercial Traffic, Facilities as well as Media Content Operations
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 62 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-line, 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:
Stephenie Vasko, ESPN STAR Sports tel: (+65) 6488 6126 or email: vaskos@espnstar.com