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(c)
(d)
The Hong Kong Government acts with determination
to ensure that TVB :-
(i) does not prevent the next broadcaster
from gaining access to and using the
transmitting sites in a timely manner;
accepts the use of a communal mast to
be erected by the next broadcaster to
support all transmitting aerials.
(ii)
Hong Kong Government does not allow its newly
conceived idea of establishing an ITA
organisation to delay the advent of a second
wireless television station. Firm implementation
of the original proposal whereby the new
broadcaster would provide common facilities
appear to be perfectly feasible and to present
TVB with no problems or difficulties.
14. Better still, the difficulties could effectively be short-
circuited altogether if Government would now accept the
original recommendation of the Working Party and grant
Rediffusion a broadcast television licence by private
treaty, with appropriate conditions imposed both on
Rediffusion and on TVB in relation to transmission
facilities. The Colony could then have a second two-
Channel wireless television station, equipped with the
most modern up-to-date colour studios and outside
broadcast facilities, and operated by an existing and
highly skilled team, on air by early 1973, instead of
one or two years later.
Hugh Dunder.
HUGH DUNDAS
18th July, 1972.