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| September 4 2001 23:29GM
| James Kynge and Robert Thomson in Beijing
Posted on 09/04/2001 9:41:34 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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China offers access deal to News Corp and AOL
By James Kynge and Robert Thomson in Beijing
Published: September 4 2001 18:42GMT
China is set to allow News Corporation and AOL Time Warner access to its domestic television audiences in return for their agreeing to distribute a Chinese government-sponsored channel in the US.
International broadcasters have fought for more than two decades to gain access to the Chinese market. Approval would be a particular triumph for Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp.
Xu Guangchun, the Chinese minister responsible for radio, film and television, said that it was his intention to allow both companies access to cable viewers in southern China. "We should say that [broadcasting by News Corp and AOL Time Warner] in a restricted area in Guangdong province would be fine," Mr Xu said.
He said the only outstanding issue was whether News Corp and AOL Time Warner would ensure that a China Central Television channel would be widely available in the US.
It is understood negotiations are far advanced for a general entertainment channel from News Corp's Star TV network to be carried in Guangdong, China's most prosperous province, which neighbours Hong Kong. Permission to broadcast in China will be particularly sweet for Mr Murdoch, who has spent the past eight years repairing a reputation damaged by his 1993 statement that satellite TV represents "an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes".
He dropped the BBC from the Star network in 1994 after a series of unflattering documentaries on China's politics and social problems invoked the government's wrath. Earlier this year, James Murdoch, his younger son and head of operations for News Corp in Asia, pleased the Chinese authorities with strong criticism of the outlawed mystic movement, Falun Gong.
Foreign companies have been banned from directly broadcasting into China, apart from in some tourist hotels and foreign residential compounds.
China's intention to allow News Corp and AOL Time Warner access to the domestic television market represents an unprecedented liberalisation in one of its most closed industries.
AOL Time Warner said: "We've been in positive and constructive discussions with the Chinese government to get increased access for China Entertainment Television in China."
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To: World'sGoneInsane
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MURDOCH
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Already posted a few times over...
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posted on
12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST
by
super175
To: super175
Thanks for tellin me.I can imagine all the titles to this makes it hard to search.
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!,Alamo-Girl,Yellow Rose of Texas,amom
Rupert Murdoch owner of Fox News
To: Spunky,AuntB,Snow Bunny
ping
To: farmfriend
you might want to ping the Klamath ping list
MURDOCH owns Fox News, could explain why they won't cover Klamath
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
China is set to allow News Corporation and AOL Time Warner access to its domestic television audiences in return for their agreeing to distribute a Chinese government-sponsored channel in the US.
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We already have that distribution in the forms of ABC, NBC,and CBS nightly news.
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posted on
12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST
by
RLK
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Thanks for the heads up!
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"We already have that distribution in the forms of ABC, NBC,and CBS nightly news"
And now Fox News
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
We are now assured that no real news will comeout of china.
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Thanks for the ping..
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Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
we know
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posted on
12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST
by
piasa
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Gotcha. :)
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To: super175
Already posted...The price for posting such a smug reply is POSTING A LINK to the previous FR post to which the readers of this subsequent post should be directed. You have not yet earned that right.
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posted on
12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST
by
RonDog
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
And, least we forget, the Peking broadcasting "service" -- PBS. [AKA the "people's" BS and Pravda (BS!)]
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Thanks for the flag! I had not seen this important story previously posted.
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posted on
12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST
by
RonDog
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
It already is. It's called CNN.
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
OK, so FreeRepublic is gonna have to start their own network.
To: Brian Allen
I can just see Fox News new motto
Fair and balanced food news
Sweet AND sour chicken.
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Sweet AND sour chicken
Didn't he just marry her?
To: Cavalry
Murdoch is many things but a salesman above all. If he thinks acting conservative will bring him a sale, he's conservative... and if he thinks acting liberal will bring him a sale he's then a liberal. Murdoch worships money and lately he has started to worship power, above all the power that media grants him. I personally don't trust Murdoch; Fox news is slightly better than CNN but most of what is on Fox television is sewage.
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posted on
12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST
by
waxhaw
To: Libertarian_4_eva
I think it will be fun to watch, I do on the direct TV (just a short segment) and it is a laugh and 1/2. Course, some of our congressmen will finally get their true colors out with it.
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
We have to face the fact that we have no unbiased, conservative news organization.
FOX is the best we have, but that's like saying being pink is better than being red.
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posted on
12/31/1969 4:00:00 PM PST
by
COB1
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Thanks for the heads up on this asinine development.
The emphasis in this article is all wrong. It should be on the fact that the ChiComs will be broadcasting here. Oh, nevermind...their minions already are! Since ABCNBCCBSCNNMSNBC aren't doing very well, I'm just curious as to how they will fare in the ratings. Any bets?
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Gosh, I wonder if the agreement also specifies that he can censor theirs if they censor ours.
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posted on
09/05/2001 8:48:17 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
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