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CONFIDENTIAL
RTV is a subsidiary company of
Rediffusion Limited, whose headquarters
are in London'.
Television
7.
(4) Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB):
a commercial organisation which provides
a wireless television broadcast service.
(5) Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Limited (RTV):
the same organisation as at (3) above,
which also provides a wired television
service.
In the case of its wired sound service,
RTV both originates its own programmes and
uses its wired networks in a limited way to
relay the programmes of Radio Hong Kong and
Commercial Radio Limited. In the case of its
wired television service, RTV likewise
originates its own programme material.
The
licence under which RTV operates its television
service (which was issued in 1957 and which
expires in 1973) also confers on the Company
the exclusive right to relay by wire any
television programme broadcast from any
broadcasting station included in the official
list of broadcasting stations issued by the
International Telecommunications Union at
Geneva, contemporaneously with the broadcast of
such programme. The Company has not until
recently been in a position to exercise this
right because there has been no other
television broadcasting station in Hong Kong.
However, in 1967 TVB was granted a franchise
for a term of years to operate a wireless
television service, and in November of that
year began regular wireless television
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