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...China has made it clear that it wants foreign broadcasters to pay. Beijing officials are talking about uplink fees of as much as $400,000 a year per channel. That's more than some broadcasters earn in China now, but it may be worth it if China eventually pays the broadcasters subscription money from Chinese consumers. (Cable is now connected to 90 million households in China, out of 320 million residences with televisions.) Currently the only subscription revenue earned by broadcasters like CNN or ESPN is from hotels and foreign residential compounds. The vast majority of Chinese people who watch...
...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...
...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. The technological bottleneck?and potential filter?created by a centralized uplink facility could soothe the anxieties of China's political mandarins. Such a policy change would surely be good for business. Goldman Sachs expects TV advertising revenues in China to grow from $2 billion today to $7 billion in 2010. And someday, additional revenues may come from the use of China...
Allow me to quote from the promotional blurb: "Jenna and Gina - two sexy sisters and the daughters of a wealthy entrepreneur - decide that television programming is their true calling. So with daddy's bank check they take over a fledgling public access channel, uplink it to a satellite and turn it into Flesh TV. All erotic. All the time...
...that's all people need. It's at least enough to inspire a leap of faith." As if on cue, Maid Marian, his girlfriend and a partner in the LLC, starts tearing into a shirtless, bearded man, screaming and cursing at him for authorizing $30,000 for a satellite uplink. They approach Harvey for adjudication, the bearded guy pleading his case. "I don't have time for this now," Harvey says without looking up. They walk away, calmed. "It's a primal symbol," he says, picking up where he left off. "A metaphor for our own fragile life...