media - Limited foreign TV-channels in hotels

Yesterday I was interviewed for a securities paper on the recent decision bij the central government not to approve the application by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ to open an office in Beijing. The official explanation: China first has to make rules on this kind of offices before we can allow it.
My feeling was that the reporter thought there might be an anti-US slant in this decision, but for me that seemed fairly unlikely. "They are bureaucrats, making rules is their life. When they get the opportunity to make new rules, they will do so," was my line of thinking.
I thought about that when I saw in the Shanghai Daily this article about our friends at the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV (SARFT), who in their endless wisdom have decided that hotels for foreigners can receive no more than 31 foreign channels, including fortunately "Cuba Vision International".
So, should we take our illegal satellite dishes then in our luggage? Fortunately, we have the internet.