by Thinus Ferreira
China's CGTN (DStv 409 / StarSat 266) is facing a possible ban from the airwaves in the United Kingdom as even more complaints are stacking up at that country's broadcasting regulator over the Chinese TV news channel's alleged biased news reporting.
Earlier this year CGTN was found guilty by the United Kingdom's broadcasting regulator, Ofcom.
Ofcom found that CGTN broke media rules at least 5 times in programmes like The World Today and China24 in August, September and November 2019 by blatantly favouring the Hong Kong government authorities and the Chinese government in coverage and their positions and comments, and not giving protestors the same opportunities or telling or reporting on their side of the issue.
Earlier this month, Ofcom again found CGTN guilty in yet another case, this time after complaints following CGTN's decision to broadcast a forced confession from a former British journalist Peter Humphrey.
CGTN that has a very small audience in Africa is carried on MultiChoice's DStv and China's StarTimes pay-TV services across the continent and StarSat in South Africa.
Complaints about CGTN content keep rolling in.
Ofcom is currently busy with another 3 investigations into CGTN's alleged biased coverage as more complaints are being levelled against the Chinese TV channel.
Other complaints against CGTN include one from a former worker at the UK's Hong Kong consulate who claims that CGTN broadcast a forced confession that he had to make after he was detained during a trip to China, as well as the daughter of the Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai who says that CGTN broadcast forced confessions of her father who is being detained in China against his will.
CGTN has no comment.
