Evidently not the Chinese. Not when the heckler entered the picture.
According to a stringer in China for a major MSM network, whose notes were passed along secondhand,
The WHSE welcoming ceremony today was broadcast LIVE into millions of selected homes accross China by Chinese language PHOENIX TV (based out Hong Kong – 24 hour news cable channel owned partially by the Chinese government) and also by English language BBC World and CNN International. The coverage turned to black (both video and audio) – the whole screen turned black – during Jintao’s speech.
I was watching all three of them (when BBC went to black I switched to CNN and it was in black and then, turn to Phoenix TV and it was also in black). The signal from these TV networks are broadcast w/a delay – this has been the system for years.
CCTV Domestic -Chinese State TV – did not air the ceremony LIVE. They aired excerpts later during their midnight (local time) news.





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