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Falun Gong cult hijacks TV broadcasts China's state television broadcasts were interrupted for nearly 15 minutes by the Falun Gong group, a spokesman for a Hong Kong-based satellite company said Tuesday. The hijacking occurred on signals from the APSTAR 6 satellite on Sunday evening, and affected 25 channels - 13 belonging to CCTV and 12 provincial or city channels, spokesman Brian Lo for Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holdings Ltd., which operates the satellite, said. Lo said that whoever was responsible had tried to jam the satellite's signals for an hour but only managed to insert 14-and-a-half minutes of video about the Falun Gong group, Lo said. He said the interrupted programming was beamed to Shanghai and the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. Other provinces and regions affected included Guangdong, Hunan and Yunnan in the south; Inner Mongolia and Ningxia in the north and Zhejiang on the east coast. Lo said his company hasn't been able to trace the jamming signal, but had reported the matter to Hong Kong's police and telecommunications authority. Police did not immediately comment. Spokeswoman Diana Fu of the Office of the Telecommunications Authority said the department will study whether there are anti-jamming measures it can recommend to APT. Hong Kong- and New York-listed APT's shareholders include China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp., China Aerospace Science & Technology Corp. and CASIL Satellite Holdings Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of China Aerospace International Holdings Ltd.
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