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TAIWAN: Chunghwa Telecom promises to continue broadcasting New Tang Dynasty Asia Pacific
Reporters Without Borders 无国界记者 | 21 June 2011
Reporters Without Borders hails today’s decision by Taiwanese TV satellite operator Chunghwa Telecom (中華電信) to continue broadcasting the privately-owned TV station New Tang Dynasty Asia Pacific (新唐人電視臺) when its new satellite takes over in August.
NTD-AP, whose signal is broadcast by Chunghwa Telecom’s current satellite, will be one of the TV stations carried by the new satellite, Chunghwa spokesman Chen Hui-yen said today. The company, in which the Taiwanese government has a majority share, had previously said it would be unable to continue broadcasting NTD-AP for “technical reasons.”
“For the time being, we are satisfied by the initial information that we have received,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The Taiwanese government has shown that it was able to intervene effectively in defence of the right to receive and import news and information. We will nonetheless wait for an accord to be signed before determining that this problem has been resolved.”
Chunghwa Telecom originally claimed on 11 April that it would not be able to carry NTD-AP’s signal on its new satellite for lack of bandwidth. Reporters Without Borders wrote to the Taiwanese government on 20 May asking it to reverse this decision.
NTD-AP’s programmes, which reach not only Taiwan but only mainland China, are critical of China’s ruling Communist Party and its persecution of the Falun Gong religious movement and dissidents in Tibet.
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