China to give Laos’ LNTV a new entertainment studio
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entertainment and sports channel, thanks to a grant from the Chinese
government.
The studio will be built at LNTV’s headquarters in Vientiane. The
accompanying equipment will include a transmitter.
“We are in the process of securing a grant from the Chinese
government for the project,” an LNTV spokesman said. It is understood
the grant is worth about US$8 million.
LNTV runs two main channels: Channel 1, which focuses on development,
education and the economy, and Channel 3, devoted to entertainment and
sports. Both channels also carry news bulletins.
Channel 3 was launched in 1994, with equipment from Cambodia provided
by a private investor. The Ministry of Culture and Information later
took control of the channel, and in 1999 it became part of LNTV.
The national broadcaster also operates two other channels, to relay
programmes from abroad. China Central Television’s international
channel, CCTV 9, is carried on Channel 7, and Vietnam Television
programmes on Channel 11.
Tuesday 29 Aug 2006
khounman...@yahoo.com
It is a win-win situation. Laos get new studio equipments and MA60
aircrafts from China while China get Laos raw materials at a very low
prices and the minig opportunities in Laos. Laos is rich in mineral
resources such as gold, tin, copper and coal so China is willing to
build road for free and do anything for Laos. There is no free lunch.
Phak Lae Lat preferred to be beggar - Begging for international donor's
cash is their leadership styles.
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vannasay
its TV medium capability so desperately needed to counter particularly
Thailand's all-out airwave assaults from TV, multimedia, news, books
to commercial adds with 7/24. The country needs more than just another
TV studio for its actual poor and archaic news arsenal, it clearly
needs to upgrade to a new generation of visionary capable to raise
those notches for a bit of modern day taste on the show to incite
especially the younger generation who would otherwise, if not already
lost in body and soul to the war of idea intended by Thai Ministry of
Information, because knowingly take for granted of that historical
misleading appearance of cousinship in these two languages and
cultures.
Anyone travels back home lately can do a little survey him/herself
within his/her own family, especially among those young at the age
capable of assuming the country's future. Their answer is almost
unanimous that Lao daily TV program is outdated, boring and uninspired
even wasted too much of resource on those communist party's tirades
which are less and less relevant to the new opened society. Of course,
all these things are easily said than done, but nonetheless,
information machinery is the most important key tool in the modern day
for any country to use to shape up opinion, idea, and national
consensus, just too important to be left out broken, idle, and in this
case totally impaired.
Meanwhile it seems that Thai influence is flourishing everywhere from
the entertainment, fashion show, life style to most of the
accommodation we can name in a modern culture, despite often the
antagonistic complaints about too much of Thai culture invasion from
many segments of conscious citizen, but the reality is that the country
is primarily powerless to resist to the temptation of the Thai
investment money including the entertainment business, and secondly
it's also another yet losing proposition for many average Lao Joes in
Laos or U.S, they voluntarily cheer up the Thai more than their own
Lao, maybe due to lack of quality or null in Lao entertainment business
to serve their own people.
There's clearly no easy choice for those correct leadership, a term
borrowed from our post-master, Mr. Lao, who are caught up between
willingly doing little to remain poor, tasteless, and goalless
subjected to the international good-wills or grants for over 30 some
years now, and happily alive on the top of their own game from their
communist long march, in the meanwhile the country keeps living on
bandage solution a bit at the time.
ຜີ
every thing. It is the bread and butter, or to say in lao it would be
sticky rice and padaek, of the business. Technology is making contents
easier to create, more productivities for creators. In the end we still
need the creator to be creative doesn't matter of what new technology
of tool we have. If we don't keep this in mind no way we will be able
to match up to the international standard or be able to produced
captivating contents.
Laos is only about six millions in population. It is a small bucket of
target audiences compare to the west side of the Mekong. We can not
expected the quality of contents to be high when the LPDR just crawled
out from the cave with chit-ta-na-khan mai only some ten odd years ago.
They propably don't even have school of journalism or school of design.
Look at the contents produced by the oversea Lao. These contents
weren't that much better than the LPDR produced. Have you seen LaoTVB
newscasts lately? Sometime it's like they just kidnapped a guy from a
local grocery store to run the show. Look at the ads they run on this
channel also. It can drive viewers bonggo trying to read what on the
screen. They are more into flashy text or screen transitions than into
conveying messages. I will take liberty to assume that these content
creators have lived in the west for a long time and have seen at least
thousands of ads and movies on TV. Why it is so hard to immitate these
good and proven approaches? It's all come down to learning or training
to do it right. Technology will make our jobs easier but it's not going
to improve our contents if we don't care how to make them.
Another thing I like to add is that it doesn't matter of what kind of
contents or who produced the contents if Lao people can learn something
from it or enjoy it the more the better. I don't believe in bad
contents if the audiences have capacity to think and understand its
contexts. That is if the content is a propaganda they should know it is
a propaganda and should question what they hear or see. Nothing wrong
to watch or enjoy thai movies, musics, or written media. Knowing many
languages is an asset.