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The delivery of the 2001-2002 Budget Speech by the Financial Secretary, Mr Donald Tsang, at 2.30 pm tomorrow (March 7) 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 around 5 pm and participate in a joint television panel discussion titled "Budget Forum 2001" at 8.30 pm tomorrow. These will be broadcast on some TV and radio channels.
Following is the time-table for the broadcast:
March 7 (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
Pheonix Chinese Channel and Infonews Channel
RTHK Radio 1, 3, and 5
Metro Finance
Live broadcast of press conference around 5 pm
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TVB-Jade and TVB-Pearl
Cable TV News Channel 1
RTHK Radio 1 and 3
Metro Finance
Budget summary (three-minuter)
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Channels Time
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TVB Jade 5.40 pm
TVB Pearl 7.15 pm
ATV Home 5.53 pm
ATV World 8 pm
Cable TV News Channel 2 8 pm and midnight
Pheonix Chinese Channel 6.55 pm
Pheonix Infonews Channel 7 pm and 10 pm
RTHK Radio 1 (Chinese) before 6 pm main news
RTHK Radio 2 (Chinese) after 5 pm news
RTHK Radio 3 (English) after 7 pm news
RTHK Putonghua Channel after 5 pm news
Commercial Radio 1 (Chinese) after 6 pm main news
Commercial Radio 2 (Chinese) after 6 pm main news
Commercial Radio after 6 pm main news
AM 864 (English)
Metro Finance (Chinese) between 5 and 6 pm and
between 10 and 11 pm
Metro Plus (English) after 7 pm main news
Joint television panel discussion "Budget Forum 2001"
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Channels Time
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TVB-Jade 10.20 pm (in Nicam)
ATV-Home midnight (in Nicam)
Cable TV News Channel 1 8.30 pm (live broadcast
in Nicam)
March 8 (Thursday)
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Budget summary (three-minuter)
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Channels Time
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TVB-Jade 1.30 am
ATV-Home 3.15 am
End/Tuesday, March 6, 2001
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