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would mean the location of all the Colony's broadcasting studios in one area. It is hoped that the building will be completed and fully equipped towards the end of 1968. A site was also selected for a new medium wave station for Radio Hong Kong at Smugglers Ridge, just beyond the Kowloon reservoir. Work on the access road and site preparation has already begun, tenders for equipment have been called and it is hoped that the new transmitters will be fully operational by the end of 1967.

The Chinese and English language press claim, between them, an estimated overall circulation of 1.5 million copies a day. Two hundred publications are produced, including 42 Chinese dailies and four English dailies. Some of the leading newspapers and magazines are listed at Appendix XXXIX. The four English dailies are the South China Morning Post and its afternoon companion the China-Mail, the Hong Kong Tiger Standard, which includes a Sunday edition, and The Star. The South China Morning Post Limited publishes the weekly Sunday Post-Herald while Asian Weekend is produced by the publishers of The Star. Generally regarded as the Colony's leading 'middle of the road' Chinese newspapers are the Wah Kiu Yat Po, the Sing Tao Jih Pao and the Kung Sheung Yat Po, which are very comprehensive in their coverage of overseas and local news.

Chinese and English-language newspapers are represented in the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong which has 20 members and three associate members. The Society, formed in 1954, is empowered to act in all matters affecting the interests of Hong Kong news- papers in general, or of the Society or its members in particular. Hong Kong remains the base of South-East Asian operations for all the important news agencies and many international magazines, newspapers, radio and television networks. International news agencies are represented by the Associated Press of America, the Agence France Presse (French News Agency), Reuters (in associa- tion with the Australian Associated Press) and United Press Inter- national.

BROADCASTING

Radio Hong Kong, Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Limited and the Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting Company between them produce eight different wireless and wired sound services and two