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Chinese audiences will see the Beijing Olympics about 10 seconds later than everybody else after Chinese authorities instituted a 10-second delay for broadcasts of the games to avoid “undesirable” incidents being seen by the masses, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao Daily News reported Tuesday.

Quoting sources, the Ming Pao reported the order came from the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

South Korean skaters after winning the silver medal in the woman’s 5,000 m short-track relay in the Winter Asian Games in Changchun on Jan. 31, 2007, held up stenciled placards at the winner's podium which said, "Mt. Baekdu belongs to us." The symbol-freighted Korean mountain, which is named in the national anthem, is known as Changbaishan there.

The incident expressed protest against the Chinese government's so-called Northeast Project, an attempt to co-opt the history of the ancient Korean kingdoms of Koguryo and Barhae, using Mt. Baekdu as the stage backdrop for the games.

The Ming Pao said the event “angered Chinese officials and citizens” and for a time soured diplomatic relations. The 10-second delay aims to avoid broadcasting “undesirable incidents” such as anti-Chinese slogans or demonstrations, it added.

China Central Television (CCTV) is in charge of distributing Beijing Olympics broadcasts to all TV stations across China.

On March 24, when the Olympic torch was ignited in Athens, CCTV edited and deleted a scene of a group of Tibetan protesters intruding into the venue when Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organization Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), spoke, by delaying the broadcast.
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14 responses // China to delay ‘live’ Olympic broadcast by 10 seconds

  • I thought that was the norm for all "live" broadcasts, so people didn't have to see streakers or other undesireable sights. Though for China to take it another step doesn't really surprise me, buisness as usual in Beijing.
    Egnatius212
  • Atleast this way there's little risk of the Chinese people being subject to possible olympic "wardrobe malfunctions."

    Hooray for Censorship.
    aswift1
  • at least in the aspect of American history. where would we be without moments like this one.
    CitizenSleep
  • After the Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake "wardrobe malfunction" incident, they probably don't trust the Americans.
    damnneargenius
  • Yeah that's pretty standard, not really news, vote it DOWN!
    HighT3chR3dn3ck
  • yeah. there's no way something like that could ever happen here. let's just forget about it.
    scabbio
  • Hah, "CCTV".
    rct1113
  • Is not so live anymore isnt? More like half-dead.
    Juas
  • Also, thats a pretty lamp. I would love to have it in my living room.
    Juas
  • The chinese government is doing it again isn't it, they are going to do what ever they want and nobody can stop them. This sucks!
    mundosanto
  • There is no live tv anymore, it says live but its not
    regularrf
  • seems like standard fare
    thedez
  • Bookies won't like it, I do

    10 sec, maybe a bit more would be great to bet on 100m or some javelot and co

    thanks to Chinese gov!
    we gonna make money this summer
    alexandrek
  • I wonder if it will be billed as 'live' in China..? I think it's not yet been reported/made open in the Chinese press (well, not too surprising really) *sigh*

    This is why the internet's so powerful - anything that happens worth censoring is unlikely to stay too hushed-up for long.. If only the government can recognise that and be more open about things.
    purplefox

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