We started the NTDTV satellite channel http://www.ntdtv.com because we
believe that anyone, anywhere has the right to communicate with anyone,
anywhere. We believe that especially people of Chinese origin need a forum
for dialogue as never before, just as the citizens of China need free flow
of information with the rest of the world. We have worked hard to use
digital and satellite technologies to enlarge the communication space among
Chinese people everywhere.

What Happened?
http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/eng/eutelsat/what_happened.htm
[Please click links on the left side column for complete details]

One year ago, NTDTV made a business partnership with Eutelsat to transmit
NTDTV’s signal to Asia and China. Since then, NTDTV is the only
non-governmental TV that broadcasts to China uncensored and in Mandarin.
Working closely with Eutelsat, we opened a historic “open satellite window”
in the great wall of information control that is forcibly maintained by
Beijing. Through that open window we have broadcast a wide variety of
programs, including the European Union debate about China policy as well as
many messages sent expressly to our Chinese viewers on the Eutelsat W5 Asia
Beam by dozens of elected European leaders. We broadcast, “live” and in
simultaneous translation, the US Presidential debates which had an immense
response from our viewers in China. We broadcast programs on human rights in
China, Article 23 in Hong Kong, economic development and corruption,
traditional Chinese culture, and so much more.

Now we are just days away from Eutelsat stopping NTDTV’s transmission to
Asia and China. Eutelsat is preparing to slam shut the “open satellite
window” this week. Instead of expanding the historic opening of the world's
largest society to the free flow of broadcast information, Eutelsat is
choosing to help Beijing reassert full content control over satellite
broadcasting. In fact, Eutelsat’s Chairman, Mr. Giuliano Berretta has
recently signed what Eutelsat called a “historic partnership agreement” with
the same agency of the Chinese Government that instructed Eutelsat to remove
NTDTV from the W5 Asia Beam. And Mr. Berretta is primed for still more
favors from Beijing, in return for putting Eutelsat’s Inter-Governmental
Convention as well as various European and international conventions in the
company shredder.

One year ago, when NTDTV started making a business partnership with the
European satellite industry, we took seriously Europe’s largest satellite
company, Eutelsat, when its leadership assured us that they would not cancel
NTDTV’s transmission to Asia -- no matter how strong the political pressure
from the Chinese or other authorities, and no matter how large the economic
incentives. We were honestly impressed last April when Eutelsat’s Chairman,
Mr. Berretta, gave the NTDTV Board his personal guarantee that hewould never
remove our channel from his company’s satellites. The European values of
pluralism and fairness are embedded in the legal Convention that governs
Eutelsat, he said. Respect for pluralism is a vital factor that
distinguishes Eutelsat from the rest of the satellite industry, he said. It
would need an order of the highest court in France to make him remove our
channel, he said.

Eutelsat has been under tremendous political and economic pressure from the
Chinese Communist government since it began NTDTV's Asia broadcast last
year. Under this pressure, Eutelsat decided not to renew NTDTV's Asia
broadcast transmission contract this year.

Your help carried us through the first termination deadline and brought
Eutelsat to the negotiating table. Your help carried us again though the
first month of negotiations and another shutdown threat.

Your continuing help is still absolutely essential to carry us through the
rest of the negotiation until an agreement that can protect NTDTV's
long-term and uncensored Asia broadcast is reached.

You can support NTDTV in many ways, including:
-- Sign the on-line petition (or hard-copy version circulating in your
community) to President Bush
http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/eng/eutelsat/petition.htm

-- Contact your elected representatives to ask their support
http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/eng/eutelsa...sat_public.htm

-- Contact Eutelsat investors and board to support continuation of NTDTV's
Asia broadcast: http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/eng/eutelsa...lsat_board.htm

-- PLEASE CONTRIBUTE to the NTDTV satellite fund so that we can purchase our
own platform:
Online Credit Card http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/donation/ccpayment.htm

OR by Check: http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/eng/eutelsa...d_overview.htm
Please make checks payable to "New Tang Dynasty TV."
Please mail your checks to NTDTV headquarters:

New Tang Dynasty TV
Suite 1200, 229 W. 28th Street
New York, NY 10001

For donations that do not specify "NTDTV Broadcasting Fund," NTDTV will
allocate them as general-purpose donations. Please clearly note your name
and address, so NTDTV can mail you a receipt for tax return purposes.

Wire Transfer:

To: Citibank, N.A.
AA/23rd Financial Center
717 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10010

Account Name: New Tang Dynasty Television
Account Number: 74426741
ABA Routing Number: 021000089

Anonymous Donations:

Please submit a money order (available at banks or post offices) for
anonymous donations (for relatively small amounts). Please use Bank Check or
Cashier's Check if the amount is relatively large. For donations that do not
specify "NTDTV Broadcasting Fund," NTDTV will allocate them as
general-purpose donations. Please clearly note your name and address, so
NTDTV can mail you a receipt for tax return purposes.

Please mail your money order, bank check or cashier's check to:

New Tang Dynasty TV
229 W 28th St. Suite 1200
New York, NY 10001

For security purposes, donors in Mainland China, please use the anonymous
donation method or donate through overseas channels.

If you have any questions, please call the pledge hotline: 1-888-260-6221.

NTDTV will acknowledge donors (except for anonymous donors) on its web site,
where it will periodically publish donors' names and amounts of their
donations.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF FREEDOM IN CHINA!