Word: guangdong
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...minutes past happy hour in this smoky Guangdong snooker hall, and the lonely have congregated to shoot another night away. Every night at seven a downcast man claims a table for himself to rack and break and pocket balls in meditative solitude until closing time. Occasionally, he glances over at the yellow-haired man who nightly commands a table next to him. Tonight, the magical geometry of ball to pocket is off, so the Chinese man diverts himself by ambling toward the equally lonely-looking foreigner. "Hello," he says in his best English. "I am Mister Wang...
...refused to convert the lightening moves in his mind to dazzling play on the pitch during tryouts with Major League Soccer's DC United and a slew of lackluster sides, including Scottish second division Berwick Rangers. Which is why Gazza has ended up in a training camp in southern Guangdong province, where he will practice for a couple of weeks before heading north to Lanzhou, a city so dirty that when you blow your nose the resulting mess is black. No one expected him to land here with the lowly Gansu Agricultural Land Reclamation Flying Horses, a team that dwells...
...training camp, Gazza, who's been brought on as a player-coach for a reported $500,000 this season, has led his ragged side to a win over a Guangdong third-division team in a preseason friendly. On the pitch, it's easy to pick out the Englishman: he's the only one with a red face and hairy arms. "Growing up, Gascoigne was my hero," says 22-year-old teammate Li Zheng. "But in person, he looks a lot older than he does on TV." The other teammates don't know exactly what to make of Gazza, either...
...neither Starry Sky nor CETV is taking the Guangdong market by storm. The channels ranked 14th and 19th among viewers in January, according to rating agency CSM. Both channels are probably more popular than the numbers suggest, however. Because they are transmitted by satellite, they can be viewed by almost anyone in China with a satellite dish. The government doesn't allow individuals to own dishes, but many do so illegally, and small cable networks routinely offer the channels to subscribers even though it's technically forbidden. By some estimates, there are more than 40 million households with access...
...tapped. "We're building a library that will become the backbone for channels in Chinese-speaking markets around the world," Davis says. He also expects the company will ultimately be granted the wider distribution rights it needs to reach a larger audience. "If I thought we'd be in Guangdong forever, it wouldn't make sense [to invest in programming]," he says. "Over time?and I don't think that long?our distribution will continue to grow and expand...