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NBA broadcasting suspended in ChinaPosted by Eric Mu on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 1:26 PM
 Bao'an Daily May 29, 2008 Today's Bao'an Daily, a Shenzhen-based newspaper, reports on its front page that China's TV stations have stopped broadcasting NBA games. The newspaper said that after CCTV stopped its live broadcast of NBA games earlier this month, other lower-level TV stations also began to cease broadcasting NBA games. Since the three days mourning for the earthquake victims, when all entertainment programing was suspended except those raising funds for earthquake relief, CCTV has only shown one NBA game on May 22, although people could still watch NBA on various provincial channels. However, according to the newspaper, on May 28, people in Guangzhou waiting to watch a game on a local channel were disappointed to find the program wasn't going to be broadcast. A video website that broadcasts NBA games also put up a notice saying they have changed their broadcasting plans temporarily and apologized for any "inconvenience it may cause." Neither the newspaper nor SARFT's media administrator has offered an explanation for the suspension. The only official explanation came from Jiang Heping, director of CCTV's Olympic Channel, who said that the NBA was "too entertaining" for this special time when the country is mourning for the victims of the earthquake. It seems that many have found Mr Jiang's explanation unconvincing; people tend to believe that there has been a ban issued on broadcasting NBA games. There are a number of alternate theories on the internet, all highly speculative: Some people are arguing the ban is politically-motivated －some NBA players have been protesting the role the Chinese government plays in Darfur－while the others think politics is unlikely the issue. After all, the last time NBA was banned in China was in 1999, after an American missile hit China's embassy in Yugoslavia, and relations with the US are not nearly as tense as they were then. The Beijing News also ran an article today about the NBA ban. In the article, an insider from CCTV is quoted as saying that NBA broadcasts will resume on June 6, though no official orders have been announced to the public. The article also refers to NBA's announcement on May 28 of a 14 million-yuan donation to China's earthquake relief. Does the juxtaposition of these two pieces of information in one article imply that it was this princely donation that won back China's authorities' good will and prompted them to reverse the (speculated) ban on broadcasting NBA games? Links and Sources
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Comments on NBA broadcasting suspended in China
But...the NBA isn't entertaining, therefore it'll be OK to show the games, right?
Show the NHL instead!!
Let's hope the CCTV5 wont ruin the EURO2008 tournament for us.
First Premier League could only be shown on PayTV and now NBA is temporarily banned. Chinese sports fans must be going nuts.
"Let's hope the CCTV5 wont ruin the EURO2008 tournament for us."
In England Steve McClaren already did that for us . . . .
you silly conspiracy theorists, the nba's not on because the rockets were eliminated in the first round!
said Kafka (The Problem of Our Laws):
that is, keep guessing.
Blackmail (suspended programming until "donations" are made) with Chinese characteristics...
This and favoring Airbus rivals due to anger at France, canceling German trade missions due to Merckel meeting the D. Llama, etc is going to be the wave of the future? Pouty Chinese blackmail games in order to pit nations against each other or get access to the market, even though China is a "rising superpower" and WTO member supposedly beholden to the "rules"?
Let many thousands of companies divest in China and aim FDI elsewhere to turn the tables. Won't happen but one can dream, right?
I thought NBA games were not being broadcast because some cable channel had bought up all the rights. That would have been a better reason than this political nonsense. This ban is a shambles, a chimera, and an abomination all at once. It has ruined my yuppie breakfast sessions before the daily 9-5 office slavery. Let's pray to the gods that be that some swarthy-faced chain smoker in the info ministry will have mercy on the testosterone-ridden young men across the Middle Kingdom. Give us back our leaping giants in trunks!
When it comes to blackmailing, Tibet issue (and Darfur also), is the West blackmailing China. But the West is good at this game. Whenever their sht is banned, they would go hey you are blackmailing.
这些政府机构人员就知道封封封,堵堵堵,再封再堵老子把你们这些鸟人们的屁眼给堵上!!!!
I'm in Guangzhou monitoring the live scoring updates of Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals because CCTV-5 is showing old footage of Olympic victories over the USA.
(Yesterday's Western Conference final in Los Angeles was replaced by China's Olympic volleyball victory over the US in 1984, which was also held in Los Angeles.)
Right now one of Guangdong's provincial channels is showing a very "entertaining" beach volleyball event in southern California which was originally broadcast by NBC. The competitors (and spectacular-looking spectators) are wearing skimpy bikinis and are disrupting my Chinese comrade's morning mourning session.
support cctv!!
oppose the prejudice to CHINA!!
aganist to distort the truth
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
That's why every time Phoenix Network's Yang Jin Lin (杨锦麟) has something truthful to report, viewers up in the Pearl River Delta are treated to 10 minutes of a still photo showing Huangshan's 迎客松!!
F the NBA if the 76ers are out of the playoffs.
F your Mom if you support Kobe and his adulterous ways, Carmelo and his idiotic drunk-driving, and all the other unscrupulous NBA personnel.
F the NBA broadcasts here in China that don't have the original analysts' audio track (all they say is "Jia You", "Hao Qiu"...so F-ing boring).
Bring the NFL, or NHL to TV here.
Subtitle it if you have to but don't eliminate the original track. If the majority of the population can't read then sell your black Audis, hire teachers and teach them how to read.
Lastly ban Badminton which is NOT a f-ing sport anyway. If you like Badminton then F your mom, your grandmother, and her mother too.
It's possible that this is related to NBA's decision to back out of a JV with the China Sports Administration and start their own league in China with the spiffy Olympic Basketball Arena they paid for.
Hmmm?
Hong Kong ATV broadcasts of NBA games use live US network commentary and play-by-play.
The NFL was brought to China last season with both regular season and playoff games on CCTV.
CCTV chooses not to offer a logical explanation for cancelling broadcasts of the NBA conference finals for the simple reason that they don't have one. In China the officials often believe it is always better to remain silent when no rational reasoning is available. Let the media types and Danwei.org forum folks speculate all they want; meanwhile enjoy some "F" badminton (Fujian? Fuwa?)
If the Chinese government really wants to ensure social harmony and stability, I can't understand why not showing NBA games would be of any benefit. On a totally unrelated note, what would have happened had the earthquake occurred during the broadcast period of the Olympic Games?
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