SKY News in China deal
SKY News' David Speers will travel to China to host an Agenda special following a deal that sees SKY and China's CCTV exchange programming.
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SKY News Political Editor David Speers will travel to China next month to host a China Agenda special.
Speers’ presence will be timed with trade officials and business leaders promoting Australian trade interests at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
SKYNews Business Channel’s Peter Switzer will also broadcast from Shanghai.
The announcement follows a reciprocal programming agreement with China’s national broadcaster CCTV that will see SKY News programmes broadcast in China.
The English-language Dialogue programme from CCTV will be broadcast weekly in Australia on A-PAC. The current affairs and interview program from Beijing explores world issues from a Chinese perspective. This is the first time anywhere in the world that Dialogue has been broadcast outside of China.
CCTV Business and trade news reports will receive coverage from SKY News Business Channel.
Under the agreement, CCTV will also have regular access to programming and journalists from SKY News and SKY News Business.
SKY’s Angelos Frangopoulos said, “This is more than just a gesture between Australian and Chinese media that has occurred in the past. The results of the agreement that SKY News and CCTV have signed will materialise immediately into regular television broadcasts from next week.”
Source: CRIEnglish
5 Responses
Ask them about hacking in to Western Companies computer networks and then we will see if they are broadcasting live to China.Second thought don’t worry,I know the answer.There’s a old saying that is appropriate for the Chinese Government and that is ‘Would not trust them as far as I could throw them’
Both SBS channels air bulletins from the internationally focused CCTV4. But they also had (until recently) disclaimers stating, ‘SBS didn’t endorse any of the following content.’ Maybe A-PAC should consider doing the same?
What are Sky News thinking?
I don’t know how they can claim to have an credibility when they are prepared to present new programmes made by Chinese state media, essentially a propaganda arm of a brutal communist regime.
Would they censor any part of the broadcast stream or are Sky News producing shows only for China?
Wow new programming!
It’ll be interesting to see programming from CCTV but how is it relevant or does that only apply to a particular channel that forever and forever (despite being a shareholder 33%) has to do with a tiny screen. And when it does appear on 601 is the first to be replaced with new programming.