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(c)

(d)

The Hong Kong Government acts with determination

to ensure that TVB :-

(i) does not prevent the next broadcaster

from gaining access to and using the

transmitting sites in a timely manner;

accepts the use of a communal mast to

be erected by the next broadcaster to

support all transmitting aerials.

(ii)

Hong Kong Government does not allow its newly

conceived idea of establishing an ITA

organisation to delay the advent of a second

wireless television station. Firm implementation

of the original proposal whereby the new

broadcaster would provide common facilities

appear to be perfectly feasible and to present

TVB with no problems or difficulties.

14. Better still, the difficulties could effectively be short-

circuited altogether if Government would now accept the

original recommendation of the Working Party and grant

Rediffusion a broadcast television licence by private

treaty, with appropriate conditions imposed both on

Rediffusion and on TVB in relation to transmission

facilities. The Colony could then have a second two-

Channel wireless television station, equipped with the

most modern up-to-date colour studios and outside

broadcast facilities, and operated by an existing and

highly skilled team, on air by early 1973, instead of

one or two years later.

Hugh Dunder.

HUGH DUNDAS

18th July, 1972.