CCTV Losing Ground Amid Changing Media Landscape
The Wall Street Journal reports that state television broadcaster CCTV, which has long dominated...
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Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (26)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
SARFT-Approved Sat TV for Hotels Serving Foreigners
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Illegal Satellite TV in China Brings CNN to the Masses
From PCWorld: A black market for satellite TV is booming in China as the middle class grows there, bringing foreign channels like CNN and MTV to a much wider audience than allowed by the government. Satellite TV is legal only...
Shanghai To Crack Down On Satellite Dishes
From Shanghai Daily (h/t the Shanghaiist): SEVETEEN (sic) government departments will launch a joint city-wide campaign to wipe out illegal television satellites that can receive foreign TV programs across Shanghai, the Oriental...
Murdoch Apologized to China, New Book Claims
Media baron Rupert Murdoch apologized to Jiang Zemin and Li Peng in a 1997 letter, years after claiming that communications technologies were a threat to totalitarian regimes, according to a forthcoming book by a former News...
New rules to safeguard China’s cultural security
From Xinhua – English: China will not permit any more overseas satellite television channels to land on its mainland and will not allow foreign investment in the country’s news media, according to new government regulations. China promulgated earlier this month three regulations on the import of cultural products, the use of foreign capital in the […]
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