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The

This is the background against which the Broadcasting Review Board's proposals must be judged.

Board consistently asked itself the question: what is the

appropriate balance that should be struck between the commercial returns which licensed broadcasters rightly expect and require and the responsibility to

to the public

which they must, no less, fulfil? In some instances the

Board has reached the conclusion that such a balance has

not been struck, or that the commercial and public goals of broadcasting have conflicted. The Board has sought to redress these problems with a number of far-reaching proposals. The Board has suggested that in some areas of programming, variety and balance has been lacking, and for this reason has proposed the creation of a public

broadcaster with guaranteed

time in order to correct

alternative programmes. The concern that a true state of competition does not exist in the industry, and has proposed measures aimed at restoring a more competitive situation. It has

has also argued that

control of the broadcasting industry has not been sufficiently comprehensive, and has therefore proposed the

establishment of a Broadcasting Authority to improve regulation of the industry. It has proposed that the public broadcaster, or in other words Radio Television Hong Kong, RTHK, should come under the general supervision

of a Board of Governors.

access to television

prime

the balance by providing Board has also expressed