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Friday, October 19, 1973
"Broadcast relay licensees will be obliged to provide subscribers
with a simultaneous uninterrupted relay of the output of all wireless
television stations in Hong Kong. They may also relay, if they so wish,
the output of sound broadcasting stations. A relay licensee will be limited
to the role of a distributor of other people's programmes. He will not
be allowed to carry anything other than these programmes along his cables
and will not have any interest in programme origination or in the sale of
advertising time," Mr. Watt said.
It is intended that broadcast relay and closed circuit television
licences will be available to all applicants who comply with the licensing
conditions and a nominal annual fee to cover the administrative cost of
licensing will be charged.
Meanwhile, development in all forme of cable communications are
moving at a very fast pace in many parts of the world and a government
working group has been established to examine these developments and to
consider other possible future uses of cable communications in Hong Kong.
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