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The delivery of the 2002-2003 Budget Speech by the Financial Secretary, Mr Antony Leung, at 2.30 pm tomorrow (March 6) 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 Leung.

Following his delivery of the Budget Speech, the Financial Secretary will hold a press conference around 5 pm and participate in a joint television panel discussion titled "Budget Forum 2002" at 8.30 pm tomorrow. These will be broadcast on some TV and radio channels.

Following is the time-table for the broadcast:

 
 March 6 (Wednesday) 
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 Live broadcast of Budget Speech delivery at 2.30 pm 
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 Channels 
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 TVB-Jade and TVB-Pearl 
 ATV-Home and ATV-World 
 Cable TV News Channel 1 
 RTHK Radio 1, 3, and 5 
 Metro Finance 
 Commercial Radio AM 864 (English) 
 
 
 Live broadcast of press conference around 5 pm 
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 TVB-Jade 
 Cable TV News Channel 1 
 RTHK Radio 1 and 3 
 Pheonix Infonews Channel 
 
 
 Budget summary (five-minuter) 
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 Channels                     Time 
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 TVB Jade                     5.40 pm 
 TVB Pearl                    7.15 pm 
 ATV Home                     5.48 pm 
 ATV World                    6.50 pm 
 Cable TV News Channel 2      8 pm and midnight 
 Pheonix Chinese Channel      6.55 pm 
 Pheonix Infonews Channel      7.20 pm, 7.50 pm
                              and 8.20 pm 
 RTHK Radio 1 (Chinese)       before 6 pm main news 
 RTHK Radio 2 (Chinese)       after 6 pm news 
 RTHK Radio 3 (English)       after 7 pm news 
 RTHK Putonghua Channel       after 6 pm news 
 Commercial Radio 1 (Chinese) after 6 pm main news 
 Commercial Radio 2 (Chinese) after 6 pm main news 
 Commercial Radio 
 AM 864 (English)             after 5 pm main news 
 Metro Finance (Chinese)      between 5 and 6 pm and 
                              between 10 and 11 pm 
 
 Joint television panel discussion "Budget Forum 2002" 
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 Channels                     Time 
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 TVB-Jade                     10.30 pm (in Nicam) 
 ATV-Home                     8.30 pm  (live broadcast 
                              in Nicam) 
 Cable TV News Channel 1      8.30 pm (live broadcast
                              in Nicam) 
 RTHK Radio 5 (Chinese)       8.30 pm (live broadcast) 
 
 
 March 7 (Thursday) 
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 Budget summary (five-minuter) 
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 Channels                     Time 
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 TVB-Jade                     1.30 am 
 ATVB-Home                    3.05 am 
 

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