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FONG KONG GOVERNMENT
DAILY
INFORMATION
SERVICES
INFORMATION BULLETIN
Friday, June 16, 1972
TELEVISION IN THE SEVENTIES
Television Authority Speaks On Future Of Television
In Hong Kong
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Hong Kong television viewers can expect even better programmes and a wider choice of channels within the next two or
three years.
Mr. Nigel Watt, the Television Authority, made this forecast when he addressed the luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Kowloon, North, in the Hong Kong Hotel today (Friday).
Speaking on "Television in the Seventies," he said
families in the future would have a choice of five television
channels reaching into their homes by wireless transmission three Chinese and two English programmes.
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Mr. Watt said a working party comprising the Television Advisory Board and other Government officers last year completed a thorough review of broadcasting policy to determine whether there was room for further expansion and whether in fact more expansion was desirable.
Three stations with five channels between them was
considered a maximum in the field of entertainment television at this
stage. Also it was not thought from the financial point of view that any further television channels beyond this number could be supported at the present time.
Mr. Watt recalled that a survey of the available frequencies revealed it was just possible to establish in theory a maximum of six channels of television in one language or the other.
"It was felt that one new licence, to cover one additional
programme service in Chinese and one in English was essential, Mr.
Watt said. The reason behind this decision was that it was considered
necessary to have competition for wireless television in both
languages if high programme standarde were to be maintained."
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