Jason Dasey - ASTRO

ASTRO

After almost eight years within the ESPN group, Jason joined Asian satellite network ASTRO in May 2009 as a sports presenter and executive producer. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he anchored the 2010 FIFA World Cup from South Africa and devised and hosted the thrice-weekly, European-focused FourFourTwo TV Show on the ASTRO SuperSport channels. Since 2010, Jason has anchored Astro's HD coverage of the Premier League. He also developed original content like the chat program, Bola@Mamak, & Football Overload, Asia's first multi-game football variety show. In November 2011, both shows were nominated for Asian TV Awards: Bola@Mamak in the Best Talk Show category and Football Overload for Best Comedy Programme.

Away from football, he presents an interview-based show, Golfing Greats: In Their Own Words for Golf Channel in Singapore and Malaysia. As a weekly sports newspaper columnist, Jason writes for the New Straits Times in Malaysia and the English website of Al Jazeera and is consulting editor of the Malaysia/Singapore edition of FourFourTwo magazine. In 2009 & 2012, he hosted the Asian Football Confederation Annual Awards in Kuala Lumpur. In addition to his Astro duties, Jason runs his own Singapore based company, Dasey Media, specializing in voice-overs, training and consultancy, and hosts a weekly soccer Podcast called Football Fever, available at Asian websites including www.stadiumastro.com and www.goal.com. In December 2012, Jason received a nomination for Best Sports Presenter/Commentator at the 2012 Asian TV Awards.

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