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It is recommended that Members reaffirm their earlier acceptance of the proposal that all three licensees should share aerial masts, noting that they will be invited to advise under the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance if the need arises.
New licence for TVB
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Members have advised that TVB's licence should be renewed subject to the new terms and conditions recommended by the Working Party. In order to apply these new conditions it will be necessary to issue TVB with a new licence under the amended Television Ordinance. The licence will be offered to TVB at the same time as the tenders for the new services are advertised and most of the terms and conditions of the new licence will become effective from the 'on-air' date of the second licensee. The 15-year franchise will be retrospective to the 19th November 1967, in line with TVB's original licence award. In the meantime their existing licence, which has been temporarily extended, will prevail.
ETV programmes
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At the meeting of Council on 22nd February, Members advised that future licensees should be required to make available four hours free air-time a day for the transmission of Government's television programmes for schools. Clause 24 of the draft bill at Annex G refers to the general requirement in respect of school broadcasts and section 13(2)(a) of the First Schedule to the draft licence at Annex I lays down the specific time required.
Special services which might be permitted for transmission by the third licensee
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When considering the memoranda referred to in paragraph 1 above, Council approved the recommendations about Pay-TV made by the Working Party on the future of broadcasting. (To receive a Pay-TV service a normal wireless television receiver is fitted with a decoder, which is operated by a coin box to obtain the programme desired). These recommendations were that there should not be even a limited amount of entertainment Pay-TV, but that the provision of vocational training on a payment basis could be of valuable use on TV and that this might therefore be included in the third licensee's service.
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The problems which remain are how flexible to make the tender advertisement, what constitutes "entertainment" and whether commercial advertising should be permitted as part of a Pay-TV service.
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To take the last point first, the competition between the three stations for advertising revenue will be very keen. It would ease the position if, for certain periods at peak hours, the third licensee closed down his conventional commercial service and relied during these periods
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