BEIJING, Jan. 4 -- Chinese digital television viewers now can watch American programs provided by HBO owned by the American media Giant Time-Warner.

    China's central television CCTV signed a deal with Time-Warner to broadcast six hours of HBO programs on CCTV's pay channel First Theatre.

    HBO also cooperates with Shanghai SMG group to provide 50 American films to 20,000 pay TV users every month.

    China's digital paid TV service was making little progress in 2004 because of limited content.

    2004 figures show China has two million digital TV subscribers, while the number of traditional TV subscribers is 340 million.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)