Some legislators also urge government to sponsor TV dramas promoting national security and education
Hong Kong’s broadcast watchdog has been asked to require TV stations to produce more local programmes on their English channels to “tell good Hong Kong stories” to expats and visitors.
Stations are permitted to have up to 45 per cent of their English-channel content be in other languages, a threshold some lawmakers said on Monday was too high and at odds with Hong Kong’s role as an international city.
Some legislators also urged the government to sponsor TV stations to produce dramas promoting national security and education, while others called for loosening restrictions on TV commercials or product placements to help broadcasters survive in the new media era.
The views were raised at a meeting of the Legislative Council’s panel on information technology and broadcasting, at which officials briefed lawmakers on the coming renewal of the three domestic free-to-air TV service licences.
