TNAG-1555-FCO40-2119-Broadcasting-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 335

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FROM: C O HUM, HKD

DATE: 23 April 1986

BBC EXTERNAL SERVICES: PRESCRIPTION COMMITTEE:

MEETING ON 24 APRIL

1.

Hong Kong features in the plans of the BBC as a

consumer of

Mandarin.

in Cantonese

programmes

These services have a

priority. No changes are recommended, that we would wish to suggest any.

2.

a

and

(potentially) in satisfactorily high

and I do not think

I have no particular views on the BBC's proposal that medium-wave transmitter should be constructed at the new Hong Kong relay station. I think this can be judged on its technical merits. The BBC are presumably well aware of the uncertainties surrounding the period after 1997.

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