CCTV 9 Dialogue Appearance
June 2nd, 2006Today I went to the China Central Television (CCTV) station in Beijing to appear on Dialogue, a show on CCTV 9, China’s national English-language station.
The other guest was Ha Jiming, the chief economist for China International Capital Corporation (CICC), China’s leading investment bank.
I think the host wanted Dr. Ha and I to cross swords a bit. I passed up several chances to overtly disagree with him (he implied for instance that all countries require companies to be profitable to conduct IPOs and under-emphasized the degree of difference between the US and PRC regulatory regimes in other ways). Instead I tried to make a few points by playing off our larger areas of agreement. It made for a civil though I hope still fruitful exchange.
Dialogue provides oceans of time compared to most TV shows where you only get soundbites, but still the time flew by. It was all over when I felt like we were just getting started.
They taped about 50 minutes. It’s a 30-minute show, and they sometimes intersperse snippets of other interviews with the comments of the main guests, so I’m curious to see what will actually be broadcast. The show will probably air next week and should be available online once it does.
June 6th, 2006 at 4:33 am
Curious whether you have the transcript?
February 11th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
[...] impression about television is that the discussion is always over before it’s really started. The first time I was on Dialogue it was pre-recorded and edited down, but this time it was broadcast live so the available time was [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 12:33 am
good reporter…