From Reuters:
An amateur alternative to Central China Television’s annual Lunar New Year’s Eve gala failed to reach its audience, as the online programme proved inaccessible to most would-be viewers.
The ‘Shanzhai’ show, billed as a grassroots alternative to the glitzy and propaganda-heavy extravaganza by state-owned CCTV, was supposed to air online Sunday night on China Countryside TV and through Macao Asia satellite TV.
Would-be viewers posed a series of complaints that the download was too slow, kept cutting off or was ‘blanking out’ on the website (www.ccstv.net).
