With the legislature’s video-on-demand (VOD) Web page receiving more than 280,000 hits since its launch in late February, the Legislative Session Broadcast Committee said yesterday it would continue to work for the establishment of a TV channel for legislative meetings.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Daniel Hwang (黃義交), a member of the seven-person committee, said it had also called for tenders in a bid to increase the bandwidth of the VOD system.
The legislature has allowed the public to access its VOD system and watch all open-door meetings from outside the legislature since Feb. 20.
The system showed that the most-watched video clip — an excerpt of KMT Legislator Fu Kun-chi (傅崑萁) during a question-and-answer session on Feb. 20 — received about 2,000 hits, while two other popular clips — videos of KMT Legislator Chiu Yi (邱毅) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) — had about 1,400 hits each.
During a related forum held by Citizen Congress Watch (CCW) on Friday, KMT Legislator Ting Shou-chung (丁守中), also a member of the committee, said the VOD system not only satisfied the public’s desire for legislative transparency but also help lawmakers promote their own image.
CCW chairman Ku Chung-hua (顧忠華) vowed to continue to urge the legislature to establish a TV channel to air live coverage of legislative meetings and make other legislative data — such as reports written by the Budget Center and the Organic Laws and Statutes Bureau — available to the public.
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