Monday, February 25, 1974
The Financial Secretary's speech on Wednesday will be broadcast
live over Radio Hong Kong's Chinese (RHK 1 and 2) and English (RHK 3 and
4) services,
Commercial Radio's Chinese Service will broadcast the proceedings
live on channel one with normal news coverage on channel two; while the
station's English Service will issue Budget "flashes" in its hourly headlines
with taped excerpts in the 6 p.m. news bulletin. These will be repeated in
the local news roundup at 6.55 a.m. and 7.55 a.m. on Thursday.
Budget excerpts will also be broadcast the following Sunday (March
3) in Commercial Radio's "The Week In Review" at 11 a.m. and 12 noon.
Both TVB and RTV will cover the meeting in their regular news
protannos.
The Budget Debate in March will also be broadcast live on RHK 2
(Chinese) and RHK 4 (English), as well as on channel one of Commercial Radio's
Chinese Service. The arrangements for the station's English Service are the
sane as for Wednesday, except that there will be no "flash" in hourly headlines.
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