Budget Speech delivery to be broadcast live by electronic media
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     The 2013-14 Budget Speech by the Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, in the Legislative Council at 11am tomorrow (February 27) will be broadcast live by the electronic media.

     Following his speech in the Legislative Council, the Financial Secretary will hold a press conference at 3.30pm and attend a joint television panel discussion programme, "Budget Forum", at 7pm. Both will be broadcast on TV and radio.

     On Thursday (February 28), the Financial Secretary will attend a joint radio phone-in programme, "Financial Secretary's Budget Phone-in", at 8am to answer questions from members of the public on the Budget.

     The public can also watch the live broadcast of the Financial Secretary delivering the Budget Speech, the press conference and his subsequent itinerary with a simple click on the Government's Budget website (www.budget.gov.hk).

     Following is the live broadcast schedule:

Budget Speech (11am, February 27)
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ATV-Home, ATV-Asia and ATV-World
Cable TV-Live News Channel
Hong Kong Broadband Network-Live Information Channel
now News, now Direct and now Business News Channel
Phoenix Hong Kong Channel and Phoenix InfoNews
TVB-Jade, TVB-Pearl and TVB-iNews
TVB PAY VISION News Channel 2
Commercial Radio AM864 and its website
Digital Broadcasting Corporation dbc 2
Metro Finance FM104
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Radio 1, 3, 5, DAB 35, Putonghua Channel and RTHK Online

Press conference (3.30pm, February 27)
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ATV-Home and ATV-Asia
Cable TV-Live News Channel
now News and now Direct Channel
Phoenix Hong Kong Channel and Phoenix InfoNews
TVB-Jade and TVB-iNews
TVB PAY VISION News Channel 2
Digital Broadcasting Corporation dbc 2
RTHK Radio 1, 3 and Putonghua Channel

Joint TV panel discussion programme "Budget Forum" (7pm, February 27)
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ATV-Home
Cable TV-Live News Channel
now Business News and now Direct Channel
Phoenix Hong Kong Channel and Phoenix InfoNews
TVB-iNews
TVB PAY VISION News Channel 2
Digital Broadcasting Corporation dbc 2
RTHK Radio 1 and RTHK Online
RTHK SDTV Channel 1

Joint radio phone-in programme "Financial Secretary's Budget Phone-in" (8am, February 28)
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Cable TV-Live News Channel
now Direct Channel
Commercial Radio 1 FM881 and its website
Digital Broadcasting Corporation dbc 2
Metro Finance FM104
RTHK Radio 1 and RTHK Online

Ends/Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Issued at HKT 15:01

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