6-
の
ខ
These new sections state the principle that the
business of a television company is television and nothing else......
The intention is to
prevent the broadening
broadening of the interests of a
television company to such an extent that it
might become subject to extraneous pressures,
reducing its independence to the detriment of the
standards of its programmes. The underlying
principle is that within a television company there
interest!
these should be no conflict of
(Hanserd. January 1973)
It seems fair to say that the element of independence of a
Licensee company is the 'spirit' and real intention of the
Ordinance. The legislative proposals in the current Bill
are necessary because the existing sections of the
Television Ordinance have proved ineffective in achieving
the spirit or real intention of the legislation. A number
of the fundamental provisions in the Ordinance have been
circumvented by the setting up of holding companies of
which the licensees have become subsidiaries. Eleven
important provisions can be, and indeed some already have
been, circumvented by this means..
/Examples of such previstons