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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.
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 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.
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.
New Asia Network (NAN; 新亞電視台), parent company Forever Top (Asia) Limited abandoned the application, following its acquisition of Cable TV Hong Kong and its subsidiary, Fantastic Television, which is a free television provider. [2] Phoenix Hong Kong Television (PHKTV, 鳳凰香港電視), parent company Phoenix Television announced its ...
A short-lived network, known as Commercial Television, opened in 1975 and operated for about three years until its bankruptcy (see 1970s in Hong Kong). Government-owned Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) (a radio broadcaster from 1949) starting making TV programmes in 1976—to be aired on TVB and ATV and later on HKCTV and Now TV. In 2016, RTHK ...
This is a list of series released by Asia Television. 1976: Big Sister (大家姐) 1977: Network (電視人) 1978: In Cold Blood (追族) 1978: Crocodile Tears (鱷魚淚) 1978: Superstar (巨星) 1978: Con Gang (奇兵36) 1978: A Hong Kong Tragedy (郎心如鐵) 1978: Chinese New Horoscope (十二生肖) 1978: Chameleon (變色龍) 1979 ...
More recently, the increasing antagonism in relations between local Hong Kong residents and mainland Chinese has also found its way as a central theme in local TV dramas. [10] While the majority of Hong Kong television drama serials are set in the present, historical themes set in imperial China or colonial Hong Kong are also popular. Genres of ...