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.
Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific was a Hong Kong-based commercial broadcasting company operating multiple specialty television channels. The company was founded in 1991 by Hong Kong businessman Richard Li.
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.
Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media,as opposed to state sponsorship,for example. It was the United States' first model of radio during the 1920s,in contrast with the public television model during the 1930s,1940s,and 1950s,which prevailed worldwide,except in the United States,Mexico,and Brazil,until the 1980s.
International Media Distribution (IMD) (formerly International Networks),a division of NBCUniversal,is a leading provider of in-language networks which facilitates the distribution of Asian,European,Middle Eastern and Hispanic channels and Video On Demand services across all platforms including,cable,satellite and OTT.
Metro Broadcast Corporation Ltd. is one of Hong Kong's three radio broadcasting corporations. It was founded on 1 July 1991,and is owned by the Hong Kong-listed CK Hutchison Holdings.
Celestial Pictures is a diversified entertainment based company focusing on Asian-language film and television content including production,aggregation,distribution,and the operation of TV channels.
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.
Star Chinese Channel was a Taiwanese general entertainment television channel operated by The Walt Disney Company (Taiwan) Ltd. Its programming features drama,variety,lifestyle,and talk shows in Mandarin. Launched on 21 October 1991 at 16:30 Hong Kong Time by its predecessor Star TV,the channel originally targeted audiences in Greater China broadcasting in both Mandarin and Cantonese,before it reduced broadcasting area to just Taiwan and began broadcasting only in Mandarin on 30 March 1996. Both Star Chinese Channel,along with its sister channel Star Entertainment Channel,closing down on January 1,2024,as Disney further enrolled Disney+ streaming platform.
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.
Animax is a pay television channel in Asia. It is the first television channel in Asia dedicated to anime,and was initially launched in Hong Kong,and Southeast Asia in January 2004. Formerly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment,the channel was sold to KC Global Media Asia on January 1,2020.
BBC Lifestyle is an international television channel wholly owned by BBC Studios. The channel provides six programming strands:Food,Home &Design,Fashion &Style,Health,Parenting,and Personal Development.
Phoenix Television is a majority state-owned television network that offers Mandarin and Cantonese-language channels that serve mainland China,Hong Kong,Macau and other markets with substantial Chinese-language viewers. It is headquartered in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is also registered in Cayman Islands.
The television industry in China includes high-tech program production,transmission and coverage. China Central Television is China's largest state-run national television broadcaster. By 1987,two-thirds of people in China had access to television,while today,over 3,000 channels are available in the country.
Phoenix Hong Kong Channel is one of the six channels that Phoenix Television operates. It was launched on 28 March 2011 in order to serve Chinese viewers in Hong Kong,and it is Phoenix Television's first Yue Chinese-language channel that is available across Hong Kong. This channel now broadcasts through cable television and satellite television systems. Some of its programmes still broadcasting in Mandarin Chinese. 97% of the company is owned by a single holder in Beijing Named Vivian Huo,managing director at H&H Capital Partners.
Fox Sports Asia was a pan-Asian pay television network broadcasting in Asia,operated by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific,a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company Pte. Ltd. It also oversaw a version of Star Sports available in Mainland China and South Korea. Originally launched in early 1990s as Star Sports and ESPN by Satellite Television Asian Region and ESPN International respectively,both parties agreed to combine their operations in Asia in October 1996. News Corporation took the full control of the venture in 2012,and relaunched the channels in two phases in January 2013 and August 2014,respectively.
