The new norm establishes also that the hotels will have to count with a permission previous to the State Administration of Radio, Movies and Television, valid only for one year, and that the signs will be transmitted by the channel of Chinese manufacture Sinosat-2, as he informs the periodic 'Shanghai Daily'.

The company International China Television Corp will be authorized to re-transmit these signs and to facilitate the decoders. To be able to be provided with the authorization of the Administration, the channels must pay to be expressed for Sinosat-2 and remain submitted to the governmental censoring, an already existing situation previously.

The satellite dishes also are allowed in specific places like institutions, diplomatic complexes or some universities; the current citizens have not right to receive foreign channels, although the business of the antennas 'pirates', which they usually express from Hong Kong or nearby countries, is much extended in the cities and an antenna can be acquired by approximately 1.000 yuanes (100 euros).

International Spanish television, as well as other European public channels, they keep on being out of the authorized official list, although it is possible to receive his sign in the country.

In particular, the authorized channels this year are: CNN, HBO, CINEMAX, CNBC Asia Pacific, MTV Mandarin, NGC Asia, STAR MOVIE INTERNATIONAL, Channel: 2V: 3, AXN, DISCOVERY, HALLMARK, BBC WORLD, NHK WORLD PREMIUM, PHOENIX MOVIES, PHOENIX chinese, TVB8, TVB GALAX, NOW, MASTV chinese, PHOENIX INFONEWS CHANNEL, BLOOMBERG, XING KONG WEI SHI, EURO SPORTS NEWS, CETV, HORIZON CHANNEL, SUNTV, CELESTIAL MOVIES, CHANNEL NEWS ASIA, TV5, EAST TV and Cuba International Vision.


(18/01/07)