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Wednesday, July 18, 1973
IMPLICATIONS OF CABLE TV SYSTEMS TO BE STUDIED
The government intends to make an early study of the implications
relating to the future introduction of advanced television cable systems
and the wider use of closed circuit television in Hong Kong, the Hon.
Jack Cater, Secretary for Home Affairs, said today.
In moving the second reading of the Telecommunications (Amendment)
Bill 1973 in the Legislative Council, he said regulations would shortly
be put to the Executive Council to provide for the licensing of more
extensive forms of communal wired television and sound broadcast systems.
These broadcast relay station licences would be issued on a
non-monopolistic basis to any company capable of meeting the necessary
technical conditions.
The operators of these systems will be required to provide their
subscribers with a simultaneous and uninterrupted relay service of all the
authorised wireless television programmes being broadcast in Hong Kong
and they will also be permitted to relay any authorised sound broadcasts,
he explained.
Under the bill, aerial distribution systems and wired closed
circuit television systems will be exempted from licensing requirements,
subject to certain conditions.
The bill.******