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Media regulation
Satellite dish clampdown in ShanghaiPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, April 14, 2008 10:57 AM
![]() We gotta move these satellite TVs Last week The Shanghai Daily reported:
In many Chinese cities, it costs a few thousand yuan to have a satellite dish and hacked decoder installed in an apartment. As long as Chinese TV continues to be so vanilla, the government will not be able to get rid of these 'illegal' satellite dishes. As an article in The Shanghai Star put it way back in 2002:
The image above shows a government worker removing an illegal satellite TV dish from a building in Qingdao, apparently in January this year. The image is from a small gallery posted to a forum website called 17KWS.com, whose slogan is "Let's watch satellite TV together". The gallery's caption says that a team composed of police and SARFT officials climbed on to apartment building's roofs and balconies, confiscating satellite dishes. The top comment to the forum post says "Hateful!" Links and Sources
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Comments on Satellite dish clampdown in Shanghai
If CCTV would buy the rights to "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" we wouldn't have a need for satellites. If the local crapola wasn't so unwatchable maybe the locals would watch it.
At least get "Double Dare" or "Wonder Years", or even "Pete and Pete".
凭什么不给我们看?
Chinese TV "vanilla"? To me vanilla is actually a pleasant taste, if not adventurous. "Crap" is probably a more apt description for Chinese TV. (Except for NBA games).
Luke, I don't mean to be rude, but you either don't speak Chinese or don't understand basketball if you think listening to those nincompoops on cctv5 call an NBA game is a pleasant experience.