With Macau's small population and market,only a few local media options are available for the local people. Because radio signals,newspapers and magazines from Hong Kong are available in Macau,the local media are always a minority group in terms of sales and number of viewers.
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong. The company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong,with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service,and TVB Pearl as its main English service. TVB is headquartered at TVB City at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate.
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is the public broadcasting service in Hong Kong. GOW,the predecessor to RTHK,was established in 1928 as the first broadcasting service in Hong Kong. As a government department under the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of the Hong Kong Government that directly supported by annual government funding,RTHK's educational,entertainment,and public affairs programmes are broadcast on its eight radio channels and five television channels,as well as commercial television channels.
Asia Television Limited is a digital media and broadcasting company in Hong Kong. Established as the first television service in Hong Kong as Rediffusion Television on 29 May 1957,it shifted to terrestrial television on 30 November 1973 and was renamed Asia Television on 24 September 1982. ATV operated two main over-the-air channels:the Cantonese-language ATV Home and the English-language ATV World.
Television in Hong Kong is primarily in Cantonese and English. It is delivered through analogue and digital terrestrial,cable,IPTV,and the Internet. Satellite TV is not common,although many housing estates have dishes and re-distribute a limited number of free channels through coaxial cables. The dominant broadcaster is TVB,ViuTV and HOY TV.
TVB Jade,or simply Jade,is a Hong Kong Cantonese-language free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) as its flagship service,alongside its sister network,the English-language TVB Pearl. Broadcasting started on 19 November 1967. It is headquartered at TVB City at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in Tseung Kwan O,in the Sai Kung District. Primarily broadcasting entertainment programming,TVB Jade has historically been the most dominant television channel in the region in terms of viewership,with its closest competitor having been the now-defunct ATV Home.
TVBS Media Inc.,formerly Liann Yee Production Co.,Ltd.,is a Taiwanese commercial television broadcasting company. It was originally established as a joint venture between TVB in Hong Kong and Era Group in Taiwan,but TVB took over Era's shares in the company in 2005. Later,TVB sold all of its shares in the company to HTC Corporation Chairwoman Cher Wang. As of 2019,TVBS operates four domestic channels and one international channel:TVBS,the flagship channel;TVBS News,24-hour news channel;TVBS Entertainment,which shows variety and drama series;TVBS E!,an alternative channel available on CHT MOD IPTV platform;and TVBS Asia,available outside Taiwan.
Fairchild TVor FTV (新時代電視), is a Canadian Cantonese language exempt specialty channel. It is owned by Fairchild Group,with Hong Kong broadcaster TVB holding a 20% minority stake. Fairchild TV has studios in the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Vancouver.
TVB News,formally known as the News and Information Division (新聞及資訊部),is the newsgathering arm of Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB),responsible for different news programme in TVB Jade,Pearl and Finance &Information Channel,also the News Channel. Its slogan is "TVB News Cares". TVB News was ranked last in credibility among TV and radio channels in Hong Kong in a 2019 CUHK survey.
Hong Kong Cable Television Limited,formerly known as Wharf Cable Television Limited until 31 October 1998,is a cable television provider in Hong Kong currently owned by Forever Top (Asia) Limited,which operates it as a part of i-Cable Communications business. It was the second company to provide cable television services in Hong Kong. It was incorporated on 30 June 1993 and officially inaugurated on 31 October same year,offering a package of over 100 pay television channels,54 of which are directly operated by the company.
Best News Entertainment is a New Zealand television,radio and print media company specialising in media for Asian migrants and Asian language communities. It operates TV32,a free-to-air television channel on the Freeview platform and three 24-hour radio networks through terrestrial radio.
Shenzhen Media Group is a state media company based in Shenzhen,Guangdong province,China. It owns twelve TV channels and four radio stations which broadcast music,report news and Chinese talk shows. Shenzhen Media Group is controlled by the propaganda department of the Shenzhen municipal committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
ATV World,was one of two free-to-air English language television channels in Hong Kong,the other being its arch-rival TVB Pearl. Its sister station,ATV Home,broadcast in Cantonese language. It is owned and operated by Asia Television,and was broadcast from the ATV Enterprises Office at 25–37 Dai Shing Street in Tai Po Innovation Park in Tai Po,which is in the Tai Po District,in the North East region of Hong Kong's New Territories.
Jadeworld is a programming package operated by TVB (USA) Inc.,a wholly owned subsidiary of the largest distributor of Chinese-language television programs –TVB Group,Hong Kong based. TVB USA is headquartered in Los Angeles,with other operators in New York and San Francisco.
Phoenix InfoNews Channel is a Hong Kong pay television news channel owned by Phoenix Television. It is the first channel to report news across the Greater China region,which includes mainland China,Macau,Taiwan and Hong Kong. The channel first started broadcasting on 1 January 2001,delivering news and financial updates around the clock. Analysts also provide comments and analysis on current issues and topics.
TVB Plus,formerly TVB J2 is a Chinese-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Hong Kong. Owned by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and first launched on 30 June 2008,the channel broadcasts programming aimed at youth and young adult audiences,as well as sports and financial journalism programming.
TVB Anywhere is an online pay-TV and shopping platform launched by Hong Kong television station Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) for non-Hong Kong audience in 2016. It streams content from its TV channel via set-top box and mobile application. The service targets Overseas Chinese.
TVB Finance,Sports &Information Channel was a Cantonese-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Hong Kong. Owned by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB),it first launched on 31 December 2007 as TVB HD Jade,before relaunching as TVB J5 on 22 February 2016.
TVB Xing He is a Hong Kong pay television channel owned by TVBI Company Limited,a subsidiary of TVB. It is primarily broadcast in Mandarin.
