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Television and Films and is to devote his full-time to
the arrangements for the setting up of the new TV
Stations.
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Mr Royle will want to raise this question with the
Governor in order to assure himself that the timetable
is still being adhered to and that the tenders do in
fact go out by the end of the year. Any further delay
which for all
RTV (HK)
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may well destroy Rediffusion (a UK-based company) which anhankary ya UK comforny and which pioneered television in Hong Kong.
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This was held up because of a youtation which had
arisen over RTV's exclusive licence to operate a
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wired television relay service, The draft Hong Kong
Copyright Bill included a clause which was designed to make the relay of a broadcast sound or television programme, without the permission of the
originators of the programme, an infringement of
copyright.
the end of the year.
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