Posted on 02/11/2021 9:46:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
BBC World News has been banned from airing in China in an apparent act of retaliation after the UK withdrew the licence of the country’s state broadcaster.
China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) today said it was pulling the service off air due to “serious content violations”, CGTN reported.
The regulator claimed the BBC had “seriously violated” the requirement for news reporting to be true and impartial, adding that its China-related coverage had “undermined China’s national interests and ethnic solidarity”.
“As the channel fails to meet the requirements to broadcast in China as an overseas channel, BBC World News is not allowed to continue its service within Chinese territory. The NRTA will not accept the channel’s broadcast application for the new year,” the regulator was quoted as saying.
It comes a week after Ofcom withdrew CGTN’s right to broadcast in the UK following an investigation into its links with Beijing.
The media watchdog’s probe found the owner of China Global Television Network did not have control over its day-to-day output and was a distributor rather than a provider.
This meant it did not meet the legal requirement to broadcast in the UK.
The BBC’s websites are already blocked in mainland China, alongside hundreds of other sites including Facebook, Google and Wikipedia.
It says banned in China... I wonder if it is also banned in Hong Kong and Macau.
Yup—the war of the censors....
The only way to win is not to play.
Meh, I’ve banned BBC from my tv.
Battlelines are being drawn for the big event.
BBC is nothing but a British version of PBS or CNN. China made a good decision.
The BBC has more info on what is happening in China and the Uighurs (or for that matter, the rest of the world) that we get from our Alphabet networks.
Meh, I’ve banned BBC from my tv.
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The Chinese are looking more and more intelligent to me every day.
The ChiComs are likely trying to give the Beeb cover, are trying to make it look more attractive while the boob tube tax hike controversy rages.
Banning CGTV comes at a time when the BBC in the UK is under a lot of pressure, due mainly to the TV viewing tax and its perceived left leaning bias.
The ban itself is by the broadcasting regulator and few viewed the channel, outside of the Chinese community anyway.
Frankly they should have left it broadcasting, so that we can see the difference in reporting between CGTV and the BBC.
We’ve just become China-lite now with respect to censorship.
Perceived...?!
Paging Indigo Montoya...
Inigo Montoya never had to deal with bleeping spell check...
Well, China, that’s a start but should have begun with CNN and MSNBC.
Brits wish it could be banned there too.
China is going to mis out on some commie propaganda!
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