China to restrict satellite TV stations to one foreign programme

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China will allow a satellite television station to buy rights to foreign programs since 2014, there is only one part of the annual new restrictions, push "ethics" and education programs, state media reported on Monday.
The official Shanghai securities news ", the reason is for the sake of general administration of press and publication through domestic television also said the years foreign programming don't see time in prime time from 7:30 PM to 10 PM in the afternoon to buy the rights.
New rules is a intensive earlier policy, announced in February, with foreign broadcast TV series of 50 sets, will lead to fewer foreign broadcast of the series in China.
This activity can also accelerate a broader trend: domestic audience's migration, downloaded from the Internet to your computer and mobile devices from radio and television to record in advance.
It considers otherworldly rise in domestic TV programs, the Chinese government is more and more attention. At the same time, it has been transferred to limit the content of the imports of domestic channels.
English Shanghai daily said, going to the new restrictions, the purchase of foreign mature performances like to blow down the "Britain's got talent copyright growing practice of" localization and then they have no further modification, spawning programs such as "China has a talent."
These programs can be cashed out quickly, with minimal risk, and usually it is very easy to sell to advertisers.
New rules, the station must increase the interests of the public program, documentary, for example, education and the moral construction scheme, with no less than 30% of the total amount, and limit some of the new music talent show every three months.
"Shanghai daily" quoted some provincial television programming directors, increasingly rely on advertising revenue, rather than the state subsidies, for they say the new rules will be very difficult.
Despite the government's control, foreign popular TV programs are widely used, for illegal download or pirated DVDS.
Aimed at consumers turn to watching downloaded content on mobile devices, home a lot of television were moving to display on the net, the domestic video sites such as Youku.com or youku potato company has signed a distribution partner.
China's commitment to joining the world trade organization (wto) negotiations, in order to open to foreign competition in domestic media. Even so, it has remained strictly restrict imports movies and TV programs, to provide space state control of domestic producers.

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