Media News - Thursday, January 03, 2008
Myanmar regime imposes satellite TV fee
Myanmar's military junta dramatically raised the annual fee for TV
satellite dishes Wednesday, an apparent move to block the foreign news
channels that beamed in global criticism of its recent crackdown on
pro-democracy protests. The license fee has rocketed from USD 5 (EUR 3) to USD 800 (EUR 546) an
unaffordable sum to most people in Myanmar. It is equivalent to about
three times the annual salary of a public school teacher. The new fee
was imposed without warning and discovered by residents who went to
renew their licenses Wednesday. Most middle class homes and shops use
satellite dishes to tune into foreign sports events, soap operas and to
circumvent the junta's tightly controlled state media. A sudden hike in
fuel prices last year led to protests that ballooned into
anti-government street demonstrations, which were crushed by the
military in September. Foreign news channels and banned programming like
the Democratic Voice of Burma a channel run by dissidents out of Norway
were the main source of information for people in Myanmar during the
crackdown.
(AP via ABC News)
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