He entered a course for prospective production designers and directors at the television network TVB, but he first worked as a screenwriter.
Among the other associations that have recently changed their names are the American Association of Advertising Agencies, now the Four A's, and the Television Bureau of Advertising, now TVB.
"We sat down and asked, 'What would TVB be if we created it today?' " said Steven J. Lanzano, who became president of TVB on Jan . 1
"As a major advertiser in local media, it's important for us to work with the TVB to develop best-in-class local media options, which TV is for us," Chris Schembri, vice president for media services at AT&T in Dallas, wrote in an e-mail.
Mr. Lanzano is to discuss the changes at an annual TVB conference, to be held on Thursday at the Time & Life Building in Midtown Manhattan.
I'm just left asking 'why'?" Video footage aired by local television network TVB showed a group of what appeared to be plainclothes officers hauling a handcuffed Tsang to a dark corner during a protest in a public park in the early hours of 15 October last year.
The couple met in June 1997 in Los Angeles, where Ms. Chen had stopped en route to her job in Hong Kong, where she was a television news reporter for TVB.
TVB's dramas, with titles like "Heart of Greed", are exported to Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and the annual Miss Hong Kong contest is a huge event.
It has taken years for TVB to negotiate licensing agreements so that it can be paid for its programming, which in the past has been routinely stolen by pirate cable operators.
One actor complained that working for Sir Run Run's Hong Kong television company, TVB, was like putting an orange into a juicer: the juice belonged to TVB, and whatever remained belonged to you.
The recently departed administration in Taipei wanted TVB to sell out.
