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Mr Walford
Mr Logan
REDIFFUSION HONG KONG
1. Sir John Spencer Wills (Chairman) and Mr Hugh Dundas
(Managing Director) of Rediffusion Limited will be calling
2.
3.
on Mr Royle at their own request at 10 am on Thursday 20 July.
The attached note sets out the matter they wish to raise.
In general, and subject to the comments below, paragraphs
1 to 8 of the note give a fair account of the sequence of
events as they are known in the Department
PARAGRAPHS 3 and 4
In 1957 RTV(HK) was the only TV station in Hong Kong.
It seems fair to infer that the Government's intention at
that time was to permit RTV to exercise the right of relay
granted to them by licence whenever a further TV station was
However, as early as 1962, the Hong Kong Government
set up.
began to have second thoughts about this.
PARAGRAPH 5
In so far as RTV would have had a claim to compensation
as a result of the revocation of the company's licence and
its replacement by a new licence which would have diminished the company's exclusive right to set up and operate certain
types of communal television aerial systems, the Hong Kong
Government proposed to leave this to be pursued by the company
in the Courts.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council supported
the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in saying that the Hong Kong
Government had the right to do what they intended.
There was
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