From: idpt167@tpts1.seed.net.tw (PC_USR)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: Watching CCTV in Taiwan
Date: 13 Dec 1992 23:51:44 -0600
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From: liaohen@cbnews.cb.att.com (Heng-Hsin Liao)
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Thanks for the nice information. I've been away from Taiwan for 3 years.
Does any legal Cable TV exist? Are the overseas programs (HK, China,
Japan, US, Europe) legitimate? If the cable-TV law does not address this
problem, that will be a shame. A country that's rich in cash but whose
people are reluctant to pay the price for something - That's really
a shame. Taiwan still has a long way to go.
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There are a lot (don't know the exact number) of cable TV companies running
"the fourth channel" in Taiwan.  My residence is in Da4-An1 district, Taipei,
and there are at least two cable TV companies hooking up cables for my
neighborhood.  Besides the three Taiwanese TV networks, TTV, CTV and CTS,
they offer us foreign TV programmes via Satellites.  The channels I have right
now are (to the best of my memory) as shown below:

Channels        Network
--------        -------
8, 10, 12       TTV, CTV, and CTS, respectively.
13              Educational Services.
14--19          Movies from HK and Taiwan, Japanese soap operas,
                Taiwanese pub shows, stock information, the bulletin board
                of the cable TV company itself, etc.
22              Western movies.
23              HK soap operas.
25              NHK.
26              Chinese satellite TV (Wei4-Shi4 zhong1 wen2 tai2).
27              Star TV -- sports.
28, 29          Other divisions of Star TV ? (Escapes me at this moment).
30--32(?)       CCTV, Yungui TV station, etc.
33(?)           BBC
34--37(?)       MTV and others.

I'm not sure if those programmes via satellites are legalized by the
cable TV bill.  But I noticed there have been less "contingencies"
(due to the News Agency's operation, I suspect) with my cable service
lately.  I strongly agree that cable TV is indispensable in the urban
area.  Take my residence for example, because of the tall buildings
around, the outdoor antenna installed on the top of my condo (a 6-story
one) is totally blocked.  And situation like this is common in Taipei.

From: chyang@allegory.engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang)
Originator: chyang@synecdoche.engin.umich.edu
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        BTW, of the new progames I watched, I like the Hua1 shi4 ( the
third Channel) the best, because its reporters were the most professional
and speak with the most accuate Pekingnese.  The impression that, they
gave me was that they are serious about the news.  BUT OF COURSE, that
channel is the Government propaganda Channel, so I turned the TV off and
poped in a video tape of a dumb movie from H.K.  Then I waited for the
carefully edited, badly commentated pro-baseball game in the morning.
And I did other things, so that to get me away from the Taiwanese TV stations
as much as possible.
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I agree that Li Yan-Chiu speaks the best Mandarin among all the TV anchormans.
But she always reminds me of the "ju3 guang1 ri4" hours back in military days.
What a drag.  I put her in the journalist-actor list not because she is
Americanized like the other anchormans, but because she is a Chinese journalist-
actor.

From: chyang@allegory.engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang)
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        BTW, what's her name at TTV nightly news and her MR. weatherman
cartoon is too outta hand.  I rather see people from the scientific
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I figure you were referring to Chang Ya-Chin.

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weather station in Southern Taiwan do a live broacast with graphs and
data than to see a badly drawn catoon character driving a converterible
with sunglasses(the character not the convertible) on when in reality,
you could not even see the sun in Taipei because of all the smog.
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FYI, you can manage to see the sun and the moon in Taipei from time to time.
But it is *very* challenging to look for a star in Taipei's sheltering evening
sky.  I have tried to do this for ten months.  I only spotted a rather dim
star (or it isn't a star at all?) a couple of months ago.


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