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The delivery of the 2000-2001 Budget Speech by the Financial Secretary, Mr Donald Tsang, at 2.30 pm tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Legislative Council will be broadcast live by the electronic media.
Most of the television and radio channels will also broadcast a summary of the Budget given by Mr Tsang.
Following his delivery of the Budget Speech, the Financial Secretary will hold a press conference at around 5 pm and participate in a joint television panel discussion titled "Budget Forum" at 8 .30 pm tomorrow. These will be broadcast on some TV channels.
Following is the time-table for the broadcast:
March 8 (Wednesday) ------------------- Live broadcast of Budget Speech delivery at 2.30 pm --------------------------------------------------- Channels --------- TVB-Jade and TVB-Pearl ATV-Home and ATV-World Cable TV News Channel 1 RTHK Radio 1, 3 and 5 Commercial Radio AM864
Live broadcast of press conference at around 5 pm
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Cable TV News Channel 1
Budget summary (Five-minuter)
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Channels Time
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TVB Jade 5.45 pm
TVB Jade around midnight
TVB Pearl 7.15 pm
ATV Home 6.55 pm
ATV World 8 pm
Cable TV News Channel 2 8.20 pm
RTHK Radio 1 (Chinese) before 6 pm main news
RTHK Radio 2 (Chinese) 6 pm (after main news)
RTHK Radio 3 (English) 7 pm (after main news)
RTHK Putonghua Channel 6 pm (after main news)
Commercial Radio 1 (Chinese) 6 pm (after main news)
Commercial Radio 2 (Chinese) 6 pm (after main news)
Commercial Radio
AM 864 (English) 5 pm or 6 pm (after
main news)
Metro FM99.7 (Chinese) 5 pm
Metro FM104 (Chinese) 5 pm
Metro FM104 (English) 6.30 pm
Metro Plus (English) 5 pm
Joint television panel discussion "Budget Forum"
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Channels Time
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TVB-Jade 8.33 pm (live broadcast
in Nicam)
Cable TV News Channel 1 8.33 pm (live broadcast)
in Nicam)
ATV-Home 11.40 pm
March 9 (Thursday)
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Budget summary (five-minuter)
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Channels Time
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ATV-Home 2.30 am
Cable TV News Channel 2 12.20 am
End/Tuesday, March 7, 2000
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