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...Here's the idea: the new company, China Broadcast Satellite Transmission Co., will receive all foreign and domestic satellite feeds at a special government facility in Beijing. It will encrypt the signals, uplink them to a satellite and beam them down to the public. The objective is a double dose of control: the state will be the monopoly provider of satellite television broadcasting on the mainland, and foreign networks will have to pay to get their signals into China. In addition, authorities will be able to censor foreign satellite broadcasts with a simple push of a button...
...much of its modern history, of course, Beijing has had that power: most Chinese could only get broadcasts by the communist government, except those on the border of foreign countries or the brave souls who listened surreptitiously to shortwave radios. But in the decade since satellite television blossomed in Asia, all that has changed: foreign broadcasters are eager to get into the China market, Beijing is willing to have them (if it can control content) and the market is one of the world's biggest plums. Whether China will actually allow direct-to-viewer foreign television transmissions is another matter...
...outfits affected by the plan are fancy hotels and compounds where foreigners live, but media executives assume that Beijing will try to funnel all satellite television through its company. Foreign TV types are already grumbling about the monopoly's proposed uplink charges. "The fees are prohibitive," says one foreign broadcast executive in China. "But if the market was going to grow in some exponential fashion through this, people would be willing to listen to anything." An executive from a rival company has similar thoughts. He declares that he won't change editorial content to please China's censors...
...Games, was the greatest overnight boon to the Communist Party since the end of the ultraleftist Cultural Revolution a quarter century ago?and the leadership was quick to exploit it. Immediately after the announcement of Beijing's victory, the entire politburo stood before the nation for the live television broadcast of a "mass cultural gathering" that featured pirouetting schoolchildren singing ditties like New Beijing Love, New Olympic Dreams. Then President Jiang Zemin hitched a ride to Tiananmen Square for the most populist performance of his career. He appeared on the rostrum overlooking the crowd?near the same place Chairman...
...protests, it was a group of Eugene activists who helped lead the mayhem; they formed part of the "Black Bloc" that broke windows and trashed stores. But few if any Eugeners are headed to Genoa this week, despite their anticapitalist bent; they're too busy at home. Local anarchists broadcast a weekly radio program and two cable-television shows. They publish half a dozen 'zines, from Black-Clad Messenger to F___ the System, the new jailhouse rag from Free and Critter, and Rob the Rich!, published by prisoner Robert Thaxton, who was sentenced to seven years for injuring a Eugene...