Posted on 09/04/2001 7:09:49 PM PDT by Aaron_A
Report: China Prepared to Let AOL Time Warner, News Corp. Broadcast Programming
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chinese residents may get access to cable programming from AOL Time Warner and News Corp., after Chinese officials said they would agree to the access if a Chinese government-sponsored channel is aired in the United States.
According to a report Wednesday on the Financial Times Web site, Xu Guangchun, the Chinese minister in charge of radio, film and television, said a deal to let New York-based AOL and Sydney-based News Corp. broadcast their programming in the Guangdong province in a ``restricted area'' is acceptable, but only if Chinese programming is permitted in the United States.
In an interview, Xu said that China Central Television would have to be made ``widely available'' in the United States. ``We want it to be easily accessed,'' he told the newspaper. The Chinese government banned programming by foreign companies from being broadcast, with the exception of some hotels and foreign-owned property. China Central Television broadcasts government-approved news programs, cooking programs and language instructions in English.
Xu also told the paper that other foreign broadcasters may be allowed to take part in a unified satellite broadcast system that will be maintained by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. A phone call to AOL Time Warner and News Corp. by The Associated Press after hours was not immediately returned.
As well as both ends of the Panama Canal!
As we used to say in the Navy.
Stand by for heavy waves!!
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