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Country | Hong Kong |
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Broadcast area | Regional |
Headquarters | Hong Kong |
Ownership | |
Owner | Asia Television |
History | |
Launched | May 29, 1957 |
Closed | April 1, 2016 |
Links | |
Website | www.hkatvnews.com |
ATV News | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 亞視新聞 | ||||||||||||
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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 of Jiang,was believed to be the source. The Communications Authority fined ATV for HK$300,000 for the false news report,and later another HK$1 million after concluding Wang Zheng had been unlawfully interfering with ATV's management. Wang's cousin James Shing Pan-yu was forced to quit his role as executive director. [1]
As a consequence of ATV's chronic financial difficulties,most newsgathering staff were laid off on 6 February 2016. ATV was ordered on 20 February 2016 to restore production of Cantonese news until the end of the period of its broadcast licence on 1 April 2016. [2] [3]
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Its two English-language news programmes were ATV Newsline ,a discussion show,and ATV Inside Story ,a topical magazine show.
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