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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1991

SDAY

SUBSCRIPTION TV REVIEW UNDERWAY

IN RESPONSE TO A NUMBER OF PRESS THE RECREATION AND CULTURE BRANCH SAID THE GOVERNMENT

INQUIRIES, A SPOKESMAN FOR SATELLITE TELEVISION UPLINK AND DOWNLINK LICENCE TO HUTCHVISION HONG HAD ISSUED A KONG LIMITED ON DECEMBER 18 LAST YEAR, JUST OVER ONE MONTH HONG KONG CABLE COMMUNICATIONS LTD (HKCC) CABLE TELEVISION PROJECT.

RESOLVED TO GIVE UP THE

AFTER THE

SHALL NOT TRANSMIT 30, 1993, SAVE GRANTED IN

"THE LICENCE STIPULATES THAT THE LICENSEE ANY PROGRAMME IN CANTONESE LANGUAGE BEFORE OCTOBER WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE LICENSING AUTHORITY WHICH MAY BE SPECIFIC INSTANCES.

HONG

"THEREAFTER, THE LICENSEE MAY PROGRAMMES, BUT PROGRAMMES NOT PREVIOUSLY SHOWN ON TELEVISION IN

BROADCAST RE-RUN CANTONESE KONG WILL BE SUBJECT TO REVIEW BY THE LICENSING CONSULTATION WITH THE BROADCASTING AUTHORITY," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

AUTHORITY IN

"HOWEVER, THE LICENCE ALSO PROVIDES THAT THIS RESTRICTION BE REMOVED BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL AT ANY TIME BEFORE OCTOBER 1993,

THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.

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MAY 30,

THE RESTRICTION ON CANTONESE LANGUAGE HUTCHVISION IS BASED ON ONE OF THE

PROGRAMMING IMPOSED ON SATELLITE TELEVISION REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

BASIC PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL LAST YEAR.

AS LAID DOWN BY THE

HONG AUDIENCE.

THIS PRINCIPLE IS THAT SATELLITE TELEVISION UPLINKED FROM KONG SHOULD NOT BE TARGETTED PRINCIPALLY AT THE HONG KONG HENCE THE RESTRICTION ON CANTONESE LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING.

MUTUHVISION CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THIS SATELLITE TELEVISION IN HONG KONG WHEN THEY APPLIED FOR THE

REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR TELEVISION LICENCE.

SATELLITE

THEY STATED THAT THEY PLANNED TO LAUNCH A TELEVISION PROGRAMMING SERVICE WHICH WOULD BE RECEIVABLE IN MORE THAN PAN-ASIAN SATELLITE 30 COUNTRIES IN THE REGION. HONG THEIR PRINCIPAL TARGET AUDIENCE.

KONG VIEWERS WERE THEREFORE NOT

THEY ALSO STATED THAT THEIR

BROADCASTERS,

THE EXISTING AND PLANNED

SERVICE WOULD NOT COMPETE WITH JEOPARDISE THE ESSENTIAL BUSINESS OF, OR

AND WOULD NOT IN ANY WAY IMPACT ON, LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS WHICH BROADCAST BOTH ENGLISH

HAVE AN ADVERSE FINANCIAL CANTONESE LANGUAGE PROGRAMMES.

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