China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56030340
Something they said?
@gemlog
They're returning the favour of Ofcom, who revoked the UK licence of a Chinese news broadcaster earlier in the week.
@PhotonQyv ah. Thanks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55931548
Plus, obviously the BBC keep mentioning the Uighar, and Hong Kong and so on.
@PhotonQyv Hong Kong’s RTHK suspends BBC World News after ban in China over Xinjiang reporting
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/02/12/hong-kongs-rthk-suspends-bbc-world-news-after-ban-in-china-over-xinjiang-reporting/
@gemlog
Not really all that surprising. As far as China is concerned Hong Kong is China and has been since 1999.
BBC is not saying HK is not Chinese, they just reported on protests.
@kravietz
I know, I think you misunderstood what I said.
What I meant was that the UK gave control of Hong Kong back to China at the end of 1999, so 22 years later, what China does or doesn't do with Hong Kong isn't really any of our business, any longer.
Yes, China has issues, but so do we, alienating China by trying to tell it what to do isn't going to help either country.
@gemlog
biggest irony is China built up its external broadcasting network from 2012 onwards using all the equipment sold off by the BBC (and even some of the journalists and presenters who were laid off!) when the BBC and UK Govt downsized Bush House and their other ventures (such as BBC Monitoring) as a cost saving exercise 😆
Ha, I have a colleague who worked at BBC Monitoring and just before they moved out of Caversham Park he smuggled me on the territory so I could have a look at the massive park 😀
behind the scenes the boomers who run UK media production companies (some of which are notoriously sketchy) are likely to be complaining about the loss of business opportunities caused by this political rift; and trying to get things patched up so money can start flowing again (irrespective of whether or not the HK protestors or the Uighurs get any better treatment in the end)
@kravietz @PhotonQyv @gemlog
I suspect/fear it will all be storm in a teacup anyway -BBC depends on China for tech (only a few years ago they were working with CCTV and NHK Japan on 4K UHD cameras and broadcast infrastructure) - China depends on BBC and other "Western" broadcasters to train journalists in "Western" propaganda broadcast techniques, they already know how to do it "Soviet" way but are moving away from that - that CCTV was allowed at all here suggests it had commercial viability>>