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...Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra, where I first felt the thrill of leading a section and playing ensemble music that mimicked my parents’ classical records. The sound was almost more exciting to me than the fact that our concert would be nationally televised on the Disney channel...
...quantified and partly because local cable operators strip out advertisements from the media giants' clients and splice in commercials from local businesses, picking up a nice though illicit revenue stream in the process. Indeed, there is a noticeable dearth of revenue-producing ads on the Starry Sky channel...
Foreign media titans aren't the only programmers that have creative differences with China's television regulators. Consider the fate of Hunan Media Group, once China's funkiest broadcaster. In the 1990s this studio in central Hunan province took advantage of a rule allowing provincial broadcasters to deliver one channel nationally across cable networks. Not content to just retransmit the local crop report, Hunan came up with a slate of all-new programs geared to popular (read: low-brow) tastes. Its leading show, Happy Camper, let celebrities and ordinary folk embarrass themselves by, for instance, dangling from 20-meter cords...
...Alas, Hunan hasn't been able to build on these victories. The government won't allow it. Last year, the group planned to devote its flagship satellite channel to movies?no tired epics on the revolution, just blockbusters. But that would have meant competing with the central government's own movie channel, so Beijing barred the change. Hunan then planned to produce a drama about the machinations of a Manchu Emperor's court. Central television, which was planning a similar series, red-lighted that, as well. A 60 Minutes-style program on corruption? With ongoing changes in the Communist Party...
...party be willing to gradually cede control of China's mass communications to the private sector, as it has allowed entrepreneurs to acquire factories and other tools of production? Not likely. Although a few private studios exist and censors have loosened up, "We can't have a private TV channel in Shanghai," Ye explains, "because the media must help the Communist Party lead the people...