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Hong Kong's other main television broadcaster, TVB, was regarded as the driving force behind ATV's decision to transform its pay TV operation to terrestrial TV broadcasting. For many years, TVB has been the predominant rating leader in Hong Kong, its programmes often capturing 90–95% of the viewing audience.
ATV Home (Chinese: 亞洲電視本港台) was a free-to-air Cantonese television channel in Hong Kong, owned and operated by Asia Television.It was formed in September 1963 as a result of the split of the bilingual Rediffusion Television subscription service (which was primarily owned by British company Rediffusion) into dedicated Cantonese and English-language services.
Given its focus on Hong Kong English-language programming in a predominantly Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking market, ATV World carried relatively little advertising and was subsidised by ATV Home. Both of the-then free-to-air television companies in Hong Kong were required by the government to provide a Hong Kong English-language service.
In 2007, free-to-air television broadcasters in Hong Kong were allocated extra frequency bands and bandwidth to provide additional digital broadcasts over and above that needed to provide simultaneous digital and analogue broadcasting of the four original multi frequency free-to-air channels. Digital terrestrial broadcasts began on 31 December ...
Hong Kong's television history began with the launch of Rediffusion Television (RTV) on 29 May 1957 (later renamed as Asia Television (ATV)).RTV started off as a cable subscription service but became a free-to-air broadcaster in 1973, with Cantonese and English channels.
An ATV News car. ATV News (Chinese: 亞視新聞) was the newsgathering arm of ATV in Hong Kong. It provided news programmes to both its ATV Home and ATV World. On 6 July 2011, ATV News falsely reported the death of Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Wang Zheng, at that time rumoured to be a distant relative ...
ATV Asia (Chinese: 亞洲台) was a high-definition TV channel operated by the Hong Kong Asia Television, starting on April 1, 2009, at 6:00am, broadcast 24 hours a day from the night of television channels.
1988: Bandits from Hong Kong (張保仔) 1989: Shivering Night (夜琉璃) 1989: Dream of Paradise (天堂夢) 1989: The Vampire Detective (殭屍神探) 1989: The Righteous Cop (男大當差) 1989: The Legend of Fu Hung Suet (傅紅雪傳奇) 1989: Immortal Love (我的野蠻殭屍女友) 1989: Master of Mount Wu Tang II (武當之巔之二 ...