Broadcasting Policy and Regulation
The Secretary for Broadcasting, Culture and Sport oversees broadcasting
policy, the aims of which are to promote choice and diversity through
competition, while regulating programme standards to ensure that public
standards of taste and decency are observed. Broadcasting licences are
issued by the Chief Executive in Council, and administered on his behalf
by the Broadcasting Authority (BA), with administrative support from the
Commissioner for Television and Entertainment Licensing.
In May 1997, the government published the licensing framework for
video-on-demand television services and invited applications for licences.
Four applications were received and, the Chief Executive in Council
approved in principle in November that a licence should be issued to
Hongkong Telecom VOD Limited, subject to negotiation on the terms and
conditions of the licence.
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