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Asked UN of S.
Korean Arirang
Added to P3
TV, Prez Park
Says Hi
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
July 15 -- A
year after the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
asked the UN
why its
in-house EZTV
had channels
from the US
(CNN and Fox
News), UK
(BBC) and
France (France
24) but none
from China or
Russia or
India or
Brazil, a new
channel has
been added:
South Korea's
Arirang.
On
July 15 the
channel
bragged it was
on "UN
In-House
Network,"
President Park
appeared on it
saying hello
to the UN
community,
just before
promos and
news casts
promoting the
country's
foreign
policy. A
panel show -
about the UN -
featured CHOI
Jong-moo, MUN
Byeong-cheol
and PARK Heung-soon,
who said South
Korea should
"use" the UN.
Duly noted.
On
July 15, after
reporting on
the addition,
Inner City
Press asked
UN spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric:
Inner
City Press:
I've noticed
that the EZTV
has this
Arirang
television on
it, and about
a year ago,
I'd asked you
about calling
it P3 TV, that
the current
EZTV lineup
has Fox and
CNN from the
United States,
BBC from the
U.K., France
24. And
you said that
there was
attempts to
make it more
diverse.
Has there been
any attempt to
get either
India, Brazil,
Russia, China,
or is it sort
of… how do
these things
happen?
Spokesman
Dujarric:
Let me
check.
Broadcasters
often contact
us and try to
provide news
feeds for
us. And
as long as it
has no cost to
the UN…
Inner City
press:
But is there a
desire to have
kind of a
diversity?
Spokesman
Dujarric:
The broader
the
information,
the better.
Ban Ki-moon,
former foreign
minister and
perhaps future
president of
South Korea,
apparently
made a plug
for the
station.
Given that
current
President Park
appears on it,
might this be
a way for Ban
to continue to
be projected
into the UN
after 2016?
Inner
City Press, on
behalf of the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
asked
about UN
Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric back
on
April 29, 2014:
Inner
City
Press: I
wanted to ask
on the actual
UN EZTV which
has channels
and it’s an
in-house
thing, it
seems like
now, there’s
two French
channels,
there’s two
American news
channels,
there’s
Al-Jazeera,
there’s no
Russian or
Chinese
channel, so…
Spokesman
Dujarric:
We’re trying.
Part of the
issue is what
we can get for
free, we had
to cut costs
in terms of
subscription
so it was a
cost issue,
but I know
it’s an effort
on the part of
[the
Department of
Public
Information]
to add more
channels in
different
languages, but
it’s also
trying to do
it in a way
that doesn’t
cost us a
dime.
Inner
City
Press: It’s
seems like P3
TV, do you see
why?
Spokesman:
Okay, that’s a
comment, not a
question.
Two
days later
there was an
addition on UN
in-house EZTV,
but it is not
Chinese or
Russian: it's
Japan's NHK.
So G4 TV?
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