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==The Chinese New Year Spectacular== |
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The Chinese New Year Spectacular is a show aired globally by NTDTV which celebrates traditional Chinese culture and tradition, as well as the |
The Chinese New Year Spectacular is a show aired globally by NTDTV which celebrates traditional Chinese culture and tradition, as well as the practice of [[Falun Gong]]. After making its debut in North America in 2004, the show is considered be one of the largest global [[Chinese New Year]] celebration in the world. |
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The 2006 production at New York’s [[Radio City Music Hall]] was ranked seventh of the top shows internationally on [[Billboard magazine]]’s Boxscore in February 2006. In 2007, the Chinese New Year Spectacular will tour 32 cities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia with a global live audience of 100,000. |
The 2006 production at New York’s [[Radio City Music Hall]] was ranked seventh of the top shows internationally on [[Billboard magazine]]’s Boxscore in February 2006. In 2007, the Chinese New Year Spectacular will tour 32 cities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia with a global live audience of 100,000. |
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==External links== |
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Revision as of 07:44, 17 February 2007
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) is an independent, nonprofit Chinese language television broadcaster based in New York City, linked with Falun Gong. Since its launch in February 2002, NTDTV has extended its 24/7 programming to cover North America, Asia, Europe and Australia with a wide range of cultural, leisure, political, and news programs in Mandarin Chinese and select programs in Cantonese and English. One of their missions, according to the official website is to foster mutual understanding between Chinese and Western societies and promote multiculturalism, peace and compassion. NTDTV also puts on an annual Chinese New Year Spectacular, which celebrates Chinese culture and promote the spiritual practise of Falun Gong.
NTDTV is, along with The Epoch Times and Sound of Hope Radio Station, part of the Epoch Media Group. Like the other media, NTDTV was originally founded by Falun Gong practitioners[1]. NTDTV has the reputation for being pro-Falun Gong and anti-Communist in stance, and in January 2005 it aired[2] a video version of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.
The station has been criticized by some for programming materials of yellow journalism, as well as anti-communist, pro-Falun Gong bias. Because of this, there has been a running battle between NTDTV and the People's Republic of China, with, allegedly, the Beijing government putting pressure on satellite operators to stop carrying NTDTV broadcasts. In March 2004, New Skies Satellites (NSS) for Asia stopped carrying the channel [3]. In March 2005, Eutelsat announced it would not renew a contract to carry the channel [4]. After prolonged negotiations, NTDTV was able to renew the contract, though under less favourable terms. As reported in The Korean Times on Jan 7, 2007, a Korean theater scheduled to host the Korean NTDTV Chinese new year performance cancelled the contract at the last minute. [5] NTDTV says the theater had been sent a request by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, passing on pressure from the Chinese government, which also threatened to cancel the theater's future performances in China. The theater denied such pressure, saying that the show was cancelled because NTDTV had failed to follow regulations for international performers specified in the contract. Similar things happened in 2006 but Korean NTDTV was able to find another theater around three days before the performance.
In November of 2006, NTDTV reporter Simone Gao of Monterey Park, CA was recognized as the winner for New America Media's Best Investigative/In Depth Broadcast Award for broadcasting on “Hi-tech companies, the Chinese government and the Internet”.
The Chinese New Year Spectacular
The Chinese New Year Spectacular is a show aired globally by NTDTV which celebrates traditional Chinese culture and tradition, as well as the practice of Falun Gong. After making its debut in North America in 2004, the show is considered be one of the largest global Chinese New Year celebration in the world.
The 2006 production at New York’s Radio City Music Hall was ranked seventh of the top shows internationally on Billboard magazine’s Boxscore in February 2006. In 2007, the Chinese New Year Spectacular will tour 32 cities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia with a global live audience of 100,000.