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UPDATES FROM PAKISTAN.
WE SPEAK URDU
SINGAPORE BASED INTERASIA TELEVISION (ITV) SAID IT
WOULD LAUNCH A NEW NON VULGAR SATELLITE ON APRIL 20 THAT WOULD REFLECT MUSLIM
VALUES AND BE FREE OF OBSCENITY. THE URDU LANGUAGE CHANNEL, DEVOTED TO
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMES IS TO FOCUS ON SOUTH EAST ASIA AND PAKISTAN. WE WANT TO
PROMOTE OUR OWN CULTURE AND VALUES THROUGH THIS CHANNEL. THERE WILL BE NO
OBSCENITY OR VULGAR PROGRAMMES,ITV CHIEF EXECUTIVE HAROON LAGHARI ANNOUNCED.
ITV IS BASICALLY A PAKISTANI CHANNEL WHICH WILL REFLECT CULTURE AND
VALUES OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL AND PAKISTAN IN PARTICULAR.
THE CHANNRL WILL USE UPLINKING FACILITIES OF S.T. TELEPORT IN
SINGAPORE TO BROADCAST TO 43 COUNTRIES VIA ASIASAT 1. IT WILL BROADCAST ITS
PROGRAMMES FROM SINGAPORE USING UPLINKING FFACILITIES OF S.T. TELEPORT AND WILL
NOT INCLUDE ANY NEWS OR CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMING, BECAUSE IT WILL BE
BROADCAST FROM OUTSIDE PAKISTAN THE CHANNEL WILL BE REGULATED NOT BY LOCAL
CENSOR LAWS BUT BY THE SINGAPORE BROADCASTING AUTHORITY.
HE SAID AN INVESTMENT OF 6.5 MILLION DOLLARS OR OVER 290 MILLIONS
RUPEES HAS BEEN MADE AND THE COMPANY, INTERASIA TV, WAS EXPECTED ADVERTISING
REVENUES OF AROUND RS. 650 MILLION. THE PROGRAMMES WILL RUN INITIALLY EVERY DAY
FROM 6P.M. TO MIDNIGHT PAKISTAN TIME AND THESE HOUR S COULD BE LATER INCREASED,
MR.LAGHARI SAID THE NEW CHANNEL WOULED BE BEAMED AT 3820 MHz ON THE
ASIASAT-1 SATELLITE FROM HONGKONG AND IN 1999 WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO ASIASAT-3.
IT WILL BE UPLINKED INITIALLY, THE PROGRAMMING WILL BE FOR 6 HOUR DAILY AND WILL
CONCENTRATE ON ENTERTAINMENT AND WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY NEWS. IN RESPONSE TO A
QUESTION, MR,LAGHARI SAID HE DID NOT HAVE TO OBIDE BY ANY PAKISTANI LAW OR
GOVERMENT POLICY .
TO BE CONTINUED....
FROM YEKKB.
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