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The delivery of the 2005-06 Budget Speech by the Financial Secretary, Mr Henry Tang, in the Legislative Council at 2.30pm tomorrow (March 16) will be broadcast live on electronic media.

Following his speech in LegCo, the Financial Secretary will hold a press conference at around 5pm and participate in a one-hour joint television panel discussion programme, "Budget Forum", at 8.30pm. Both will also be broadcast on TV and radio channels.

Internet users can watch the broadcast of the speech and his subsequent activities live with a simple click into the Government's Budget website: http://www.budget.gov.hk.

Followings is the broadcast schedule:

March 16 (Wednesday)

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Live broadcast of Budget Speech delivery at 2.30pm

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Channels

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ATV-Home and ATV-World

ATV 24-hour News (NOW Broadband TV)

Cable News Channel 1

Cable Channel 10

Phoenix Infonews Channel

TVB-Jade and TVB-Pearl

TVBN

Commercial Radio AM864

Metro Finance

RTHK Radio 1, 3, 5 and Putonghua Channel

Live broadcast of press conference at around 5pm

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ATV-Home

ATV 24-hour News (NOW Broadband TV)

Cable News Channel 1

Cable Channel 10

Phoenix Infonews Channel

TVB-Jade and TVB-Pearl

TVBN

RTHK Radio 1 and Putonghua Channel

Joint television panel discussion "Budget Forum"

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Channels               Time

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ATV-Home              9pm (in Nicam)

Cable News Channel     8.30pm (live broadcast in Nicam)

Cable Channel 10

TVB-Jade               12.10am on March 17 (in Nicam)

RTHK Radio 2 and     8.30pm (live broadcast)

Putonghua Channel

Other budget-related media programmes after the Budget Day include:

March 17 (Thursday)

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Financial Secretary to attend the following phone-in programme:

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RTHK Radio 1, 3, 5 and Putonghua Channel (8am)

"Financial Secretary's Phone-in"

Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (SFST), Mr Frederick Ma, will attend the following media programmes:  

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Commercial Radio (6.30pm)

"The Tipping Point"

TVB-Jade (7pm)

RTHK's programme "LegCo Review"

Cable TV News Channel 1 (8.30pm)

RTHK's programme "LegCo Review"

March 19, 2005 (Saturday)

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Financial Secretary to attend the following media programme:

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ATV-Home (11am - 12.15pm)

RTHK Radio 1 (11am - 12pm)

"Budget Forum"

Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (SFST), Mr Frederick Ma, will attend the following media programmes:  

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RTHK Radio 1 and 5 (8am - 9am)

"Accountability"

Metro Finance (9.30am - 10am)

"Ming's Teahouse"

Cable TV News Channel 1 (7.30pm)

"Allen Lee Show"

People may access the Government's Budget website through more than 200 computer terminals at the 90 Community Cyber Points in the 18 districts.

Ends/Tuesday, March 15, 2005

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