CONFIDENTIAL
ANNEX
B
TO XCC(72)
For discussion
on 28th March 1972
XCC(72)24 Copy No
MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
THE FUTURE OF BROADCASTING
On the 22nd February 1972, after consideration of
memorandum XCC(72)14, Council advised and the Governor ordered:
(a)
that public tenders be invited simultaneously
for a second wireless television licence,
which would provide for both English and
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
a
(h)
Chinese services, and a third wireless tele- vision licence, which would provide for a single Chinese service;
that no date be specified with regard to the commencement of operations by the success- ful tenderers for the second and third wire- less television licences, other of course than the limitation imposed by the lifetime of the present TVB exclusive franchise;
that future licensees be required to make available four hours free air-time a day for the transmission of ETV programmes;
that licensees be required to provide up to seven hours air-time a week for programmes produced by Government as recommended by the working party;
that permitted advertising times be increased from seven minutes to ten minutes in any one hour, subject to the existing overall res- triction of 10% of transmission time in any twenty-four hour period;
that on the expiry of the existing exclusive licence for a wired television service held by Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Limited no further monopoly be permitted in this field;
that the working party's recommendations concerning the composition of a licensee's board of directors and the local ownership of a licensee's shares be approved, subject to examination by the Legal Department with a view to closing any possible loopholes;
ง
that a further, shorter memorandum be prepared by the Colonial Secretariat drawing Council's attention to the principal remaining recommendations made by the working party on which a specific decision is appropriate;
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