SBC to broadcast CCTV 24 hours daily |14 November 2011

He was speaking after signing an agreement with CCTV vice-president Hu En at Hermitage last week.
The SBC is now broadcasting CCTV News four hours daily, but the agreement adds two hours to make a total of six, and the SBC will also be able to broadcast CCTV French and CCTV Documentary selectively, choosing the programmes the local station wants and airing them as they are or recording to rebroadcast later.

There to witness the signing ceremony were members of the SBC’s management, the director of CCTV’s  International Promotion Centre Jing Chunchan and the centre’s deputy director Wang Xiongxian.

“When the SBC goes digital soon it will offer CCTV for 24 hours daily,” said Mr Onezime.
He said the SBC will have 12 channels soon, possibly by the end of next year.

“At the moment we are running four channels but people cannot get them as they are being tested and the people will need special equipment to decode the channels,” he said.

“The channels will be launched soon when the SBC will loan viewers the equipment on a temporary basis to decode the channels which are at the moment broadcasting; the KBS World – from the Korean Broadcasting System, the SBC2 with local programmes and the Cable News Network which will now be replaced by CCTV French.

“The viewers will however need to realise these will initially be broadcast on a test basis so they cannot call to complain if programmes are repeated,” he said, promising details later this month.

Mr Onezime noted the CCTV programmes that the SBC broadcasts are available to all the station’s viewers including most hotels, enabling tourists as well to watch the programmes.

Mr Hu said the event was very important for both broadcasters because it took a 1997 signing to another step, extending it.

He thanked all those who had worked hard towards the preliminaries which led to the signing, noting the move strengthened ties between the SBC and the CCTV which will hopefully spread and strengthen ties between the peoples of China and Seychelles.