Vietnam gets pay-TV.A foreign consortium of Australian and French business interests has received the green light for Vietnam's first-ever pay-TV station. Vietnam Investment Review, an Australian-owned entrepreneurial English-language weekly, will join with French production and distribution companies Les Films du Triangle and Sicomor, and state-owned Vietnam Television Vietnam Television, or VTV, is the national television broadcaster for Vietnam. Like all media of Vietnam, its programming is tightly controlled by the government. History to provide pay-TV to the capital city of Hanoi in early 1994. Similar operations will roll-out in Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, city (1997 pop. 5,250,000), on the right bank of the Saigon River, a tributary of the Dong Nai, Vietnam. , and Danang, a coastal port, in 1995. The consortium will invest $2 million initially to provide one low power microwave pay-TV channel for government officials, international diplomats Some famous diplomats include: Afghanistan
Broadcasting will be in English with Vietnamese subtitles sub·ti·tle n. 1. A secondary, usually explanatory title, as of a literary work. 2. A printed translation of the dialogue of a foreign-language film shown at the bottom of the screen. tr.v. . Programming is expected to be slanted slant v. slant·ed, slant·ing, slants v.tr. 1. To give a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal to; make diagonal; cause to slope: to its French distributor, but the group insists it will be international. Final approval for the pay-TV channel is pending Vietnam's Council of Ministers. |
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