This is only one conspiracy theory, but I believe there’s a lot more behind – the China government has no doubt be involved in the TV license matter. Now, we can spend no more than US$0.1 a minute!Ĭombining the fact that Li Ka-shing, the ultimate owner of PCCW, had been saying to the market that he’s going to sell off a couple local businesses, including ParkNShop, which triggered the market’s nerves – IS LI KA-SHING RETREATING FROM HONG KONG?Ĭoincidentally, Li announced that he’s not selling ParkNShop after all, soon after the license was granted to PCCW. We used to pay US$2 a minute for IDD back then if not more. Ricky Wong, HKTV’s founder, years ago founded CTI which basically targeted the telecommunications industry and forced the then monopoly, PCCW, to engage in a price war – introducing competition in the market and bring the service prices of internet and international direct dial (IDD) down dramatically. Why the sudden change of tune? Why only iCable and PCCW, two telecommunications giants that have pretty much dominated the industry for years, are granted the licenses? Reports have been leaked, and all pointing to the fact that the recommendation made by independent consultant(s) and Executive Council’s original proposal was to issue licenses to all three applicants, including HKTV. When public interest is involved, the government has the obligation to disclose details to ensure that the fairness and transparency of the evaluation is understood. The Executive Council refused to disclose details about the evaluation and claimed that it’s all confidential. Bear in mind the fact that HKTV only applied for an free-to-air TV license that does not take up any of the public air wave, meaning that even if HKTV can get the license, people won’t be able to watch any of the programmes without a decoder box.
reporting a false exclusive story on Jiang Zemin’s death, producing close to zero programmes but repeatedly broadcasting the same shows over and over again for years)Įxactly why ATV still holds one of the two free-to-air TV channel licenses is beyond believe. The government continues to allow ATV to operate despite major scandals and horrendious quality of TV production (e.g.Timothy Tong’s case is still lingering after all the evidence has been pulled out.The HKSAR government dropped all charges against Sally Aw claiming that her prosecution involves “major public interest” and didn’t give any further explanation.There’s a trend here, since the handover of sovereignty: If that’s the case, do us all Hong Konger a favour, don’t report at all. My attention was drawn to two words in this sentence “they see” – It’s either the journalist failed to investigate into the core of the issue, or they simply cannot be asked to report about Hong Kong properly. Why did people take it to the street? According to BBC: “Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong to protest against what they see as a lack of government transparency and accountability”.
The police in Hong Kong said there were 20,000 took it to the street yesterday, but being there from the early time (skipped the rally, but went straight to the Government Headquarter) to observe the flow, I am pretty sure that the number was closer to 80,000 or even 120,000.
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