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Changes Proposed to Canada’s Broadcasting Act Could Take Chinese State TV Networks Off Air
The federal Conservatives are proposing changes to the Broadcasting Act that, if approved by Parliament, may see a possible removal of two Chinese state-owned broadcasters from Canada’s airwaves.
The proposed changes target any foreign media that is “subject to direction or controlled by a non-democratic foreign state, by a foreign state that is committing genocide or crimes against humanity, or that transmits, produces, or participates in the production of forced confessions.”
Conservatives Garnett Genuis, a human rights critic, and Alain Rayes, the party’s heritage critic, said their proposed revisions seek to bar authoritarian or genocidal states from pushing their propaganda to Canadians through the airwaves.
In an apparent tit-for-tat move, BBC World News has been banned from airing in China, according to a statement from China's National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) on Thursday.
British regulators fine Chinese propaganda channel
Ofcom has demanded that CGTN pays fines after breaching the UK s broadcasting rules. Critics say the English-language satellite broadcaster merely parrots the Chinese Communist Party line in its reports.
Ofcom fined CGTN over breaches to the UK s broadcasting code
British regulators on Monday fined Chinese state broadcast CGTN €260,000 (£225,000, $309,000), one month after having revoked its license.
Peter Humphrey complained to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the channel s airing of a criminal confession that he says he was forced to make.
Ofcom hit the Chinese channel with a €110,000 fine for breaching the country s broadcast code.
CGTN regularly airs programs that noticeably free of any criticism of China
British regulators on Monday fined Chinese state broadcast CGTN €260,000, a month after having revoked its license. Peter Humphrey complained to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the channel s airing of a criminal confession that he says he was forced to make.