Viacom-owned children‘s channel Nickelodeon will soon be broadcast in China after the localisation of all programme content, a recent report says.
Viacom launched Nickelodeon programming in China on 1 May, 2001 with a half-hour show. Content was initially "live action" produced by Nickelodeon but eventually expanded to co-produced programming, including animation.

Li Yifei, general manager of MTV China, in an interview with China Business in Beijing, was quoted as saying Nickelodeon‘s target viewers are children between the ages of two and 16. Currently, several hundred provincial and municipal television stations in China have aired some Nickelodeon programmes, which have reached an audience of 300 million to 500 million Chinese, including children in 80 million households.

In a swift turn around on Monday, the Bangladesh government lifted its ban on 11 of the 13 satellite channels it had imposed on Sunday.
The Bangladeshi ministry of information has now decided to give broadcast permission to all but two, MTV and Channel V, according to a report in national newspaper, Daily Star. The two continue to be penalised for their ‘ adverse impact of alien culture on religious and social values‘. The government had, after a five hour long meeting with cable ops, broadcasters and distributors on Sunday, decided to suspend broadcast of 13 satellite channels, both pay and FTA including HBO, Star Movies, Star World, MTV, Channel V, MGM, Hallmark, AXN, RAI TV, PTP, TVE, and SNTV.

The official handout, says the Daily Star, said the government reconsidered its earlier decision after reviewing the pleas by the satellite channel distributors. The distributors appealed to Information Secretary Mirza Tasadduk Hossain Beg yesterday for reconsideration of the decision, it added.

While the govenrment had gone ahead with the ban despite opposition by representatives of two distributors, Abul Khair Litu of Nationwide Communications and Humayun Majid of Translink, it has now ignored the rest of the stakeholders that include cable ops, channels, including BTV, ETV, Channel-i and ATN Bangla who supported the ban. M/S Nationwide distributes 27 out of 30 channels, while M/S Translink distributes the rest.

"It is surprising as well as suspicious that the government changed its mind so quickly," a member of the Cable Operators Association of Bangladesh (COAB) has been quoted by the Daily Star as saying."