77-528: Asia Television Limited ( Chinese : 亞洲電視有限公司 , also known as ATV ) is a digital media and broadcasting company in Hong Kong . Established as the first television service in Hong Kong as Rediffusion Television ( Chinese : 麗的電視/麗的呼聲 ) 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:
154-584: A retronym applied to non-simplified character sets in the wake of widespread use of simplified characters. Traditional characters are commonly used in Taiwan , Hong Kong , and Macau , as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia. As for non-Chinese languages written using Chinese characters, Japanese kanji include many simplified characters known as shinjitai standardized after World War II, sometimes distinct from their simplified Chinese counterparts . Korean hanja , still used to
231-466: A 24-hour news and finance news channel; His TV , a 24-hour sports and infotainment channel aimed at men; Her TV , a 24-hour lifestyle infotainment channel aimed at women; Plus TV , a 24-hour documentary channel; and HDTV , a 24-hour high-definition channel. ATV produced numerous classic TV dramas, including Super Stuntman (狮王之王), Crocodile Tears (鱷魚淚), My Date with a Vampire , Fatherland (大地恩情), Vampire Hero (殭屍英雄), The Legend , My Date with
308-634: A Chinese enterprise called Far East Group ( Chinese : 遠東機構 ), owned by the Chiu family, took a stake in the company, such that Far East Group and the Australian consortium each held 50% of RTV's shares. The move marked the first time that a Chinese enterprise had played a role in RTV. RTV was renamed "Asia Television" later in the same year. The company that operated ATV frequently recorded losses, and in January 1984, following
385-735: A Vampire 2 , The Legendary Fok (霍元甲), My Date with a Vampire 3 , Central Affairs I and II (情陷夜中環), Vampire Expert II (殭屍道長II) and Reincarnated (天蠶變). Productions of note in 1990s include The Pride of Chaozhou (我來自潮州), Who is the Winner? (勝者為王), Who is the Winner?! 2: King of Green Bat , King of the Gambler (千王之王重出江湖), and The Good Old Days (再見艷陽天). In the 2000s, ATV created and hosted certain large-scale award shows. The most well-known would probably be The Annual Most Popular TV Commercial Awards (十大電視廣告頒獎禮). Other infotainment programmes like Stories From Afar (尋找他鄉的故事) ranked highly in
462-503: A certain extent in South Korea , remain virtually identical to traditional characters, with variations between the two forms largely stylistic. There has historically been a debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters . Because the simplifications are fairly systematic, it is possible to convert computer-encoded characters between the two sets, with the main issue being ambiguities in simplified representations resulting from
539-571: A company that later bought most of ATV's shares. Afterwards, Chan Wing-kei took the post of Administrative Director General. With the change of shareholders, there was innovation in the direction of production, marketing strategy, and human resources. One of the significant changes is the increasing purchase of foreign programmes, such as the South Korean Drama Autumn in My Heart . In December 2008, City Telecom chairman Ricky Wong Wai Kay
616-579: A long-time transport contractor of ATV – filed a lawsuit asking the High Court to wind up ATV over unpaid bills totaling HK$ 900,000. ATV executive director James Shing denied the station was experiencing financial problems. In 2014, the court ruled in Tsai's favour that Wang Zheng was responsible for ATV's business failure, and appointed Deloitte to seek a white knight to take over Wong Ben-koon's controlling shares. ATV had also failed to pay wages to its employees; at
693-455: A new broadcasting company, HK Television Entertainment . The government also allowed RTHK to take over ATV's analogue broadcast spectrum; RTHK planned to use the spectrum to broadcast an expanded version of its channel 31 service. On 7 February 2016, after over 200 employees resigned from the company in the previous week, ATV was forced to suspend its news programming due to a lack of staff. The broadcaster planned to restore newscasts following
770-443: A provisional liquidator for ATV's assets. On 29 February 2016, Deloitte announced that as part of the liquidation process, all of ATV's staff would be laid off. On 3 March 2016, Deloitte announced that it was in the process of winding down ATV's operations and planned to shut down the network as soon as possible. However, RTHK stated that it would not be ready to take over ATV's analogue spectrum with its new programming until 10 March at
847-608: A statement stating that only Asia Television Digital Media would be liquidated and that Asia Television Holdings, and its subsidiary Asia Momentum Media would still be providing content. On 21 July 2007, ATV left its long-time home at 81 Broadcast Drive in Kowloon Tong and moved into a new facility in Tai Po . The original home was demolished in 2008–2009 and is now a residential development, called Meridian Hill. The Tai Po production facilities cover 550,000 square feet (51,000 m) and
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#1732917099373924-529: A two-page advertisement in the South China Morning Post promoting marketing opportunities, featuring a full-page picture of Adolf Hitler surrounded by members of the Hitler Youth . It suggested that, had Hitler been able to advertise on ATV, he would have "been assured of total domination" and have "had them sieg heiling from Shanghai to Guangzhou " before adding that advertisers should contact
1001-468: A veto in what personal appearances, endorsements, and advertisements an artiste may take, demanding a cut of all fees. Artistes would also be pushed to take jobs favored by the station, with artistes who rebelled and refused being put "on ice" (Chinese: 被雪, 雪藏), or being forced to see out their contract at the basic wage, but not being used in any of station's programs and forbidden from any other work. Being put "on ice" effectively ends an artist's career until
1078-798: Is 産 (also the accepted form in Japan and Korea), while in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan the accepted form is 產 (also the accepted form in Vietnamese chữ Nôm ). The PRC tends to print material intended for people in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in traditional characters. For example, versions of the People's Daily are printed in traditional characters, and both People's Daily and Xinhua have traditional character versions of their website available, using Big5 encoding. Mainland companies selling products in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use traditional characters in order to communicate with consumers;
1155-427: Is believed by observers to bypass Hong Kong's broadcasting regulations, which forbid non-Hong Kong residents to own and control local television stations. Stating his plan to shape ATV into "Asia's CNN " and "Hong Kong's conscience", Wang replaced the production of television drama series with talk shows , which contributed to further loss of ATV's audience and advertisers. On 6 July 2011, ATV News falsely reported
1232-692: Is three times larger than the old facilities on Broadcast Drive. The Tai Po facilities have four news studios, eight variety show and drama studios and a range of digital broadcasting facilities. The largest studio covers 20,000 square feet (1,900 m). The new HQ is the former site of the Lee Kum Kee 's Hong Kong headquarters and factory operations in Hong Kong. ATV News was the news-gathering arm of ATV. It produced daily newscasts in Cantonese , Mandarin , and English, which were seen on its Home, World, and News & Business Channels. Additional foreign news coverage
1309-483: The Chinese Commercial News , World News , and United Daily News all use traditional characters, as do some Hong Kong–based magazines such as Yazhou Zhoukan . The Philippine Chinese Daily uses simplified characters. DVDs are usually subtitled using traditional characters, influenced by media from Taiwan as well as by the two countries sharing the same DVD region , 3. With most having immigrated to
1386-499: The 2020 pandemic and feature a global cast including John Savage , Xander Berkeley , and Anita Chui . In 2021 AMM Global Media was formed where all 19 of Tong's creative projects including Lockdown shifted in order to focus entirely on creative entertainment with international appeal, where Tong became its executive director. On 7 September 2022, the High Court ordered Asia Television Digital Media to be liquidated . ATV then issued
1463-631: The Appreciation Index Survey Best Television Awards (香港電視節目欣賞指數), as reflected by a public review. Some ATV programmes, such as the entertainment news show Hong Kong Today (今日睇真D) and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (百萬富翁), proved particularly popular, prompting local rival TVB to offer similar fare. Asia Television used to air the British Science Fiction Programme Doctor Who and were responsible for returning one of their copies to
1540-878: The BBC , when BBC Enterprises wiped many Doctor Who serials in the 1970s. The Tomb of the Cybermen returned in late 1991. ATV World was one of two English-language channels that broadcast in Hong Kong. It offered a variety of programmes, mostly from the United States, ranging from popular serial dramas and films to documentaries and educational shows. Among the shows it aired are Ally McBeal (甜心俏佳人), Survivor (生還者), Smallville (超人外傳), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (滅罪鑑證科), Elizabeth I (伊利沙伯一世傳奇), CSI: Miami (鑑證行動組), Cold Case (鐵證懸案), CSI: NY (鑑證紐約), Grey's Anatomy (醫人當自強), The Closer (真相追擊), Doctor Who (異世奇人), and Ghost Whisperer (靈感應). ATV stopped carrying
1617-625: The Kensiu language . Lim Por-yen Lim Por-yen （21 December 1914 – 18 February 2005) was a Hong Kong industrialist. He founded the Lai Sun Group , and his family was the biggest shareholder of Asia Television . In 1945, he started a factory manufacturing garments in Sham Shui Po for export. Lim earned himself the nickname of "African King" in the 1950s when he exported cheap military uniforms to African countries. His company, Lai Sun Garment,
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#17329170993731694-622: The Shanghainese -language character U+20C8E 𠲎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20C8E —a composition of 伐 with the ⼝ 'MOUTH' radical—used instead of the Standard Chinese 嗎 ; 吗 . Typefaces often use the initialism TC to signify the use of traditional Chinese characters, as well as SC for simplified Chinese characters . In addition, the Noto, Italy family of typefaces, for example, also provides separate fonts for
1771-721: The University of Hong Kong 's SARS Fund and helped to establish the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole . His support of the HKU Foundation and to the university in general over the years earned him an honorary fellowship in 2003. Lim also endowed an Eye Genetics Research Center (named after him) at the CUHK in 2004. Lim was a Hong Kong Affairs Adviser to Beijing. He also served on the Preparatory Committee and Selection Committee of
1848-554: The 24-hour ATV Home channel in Cantonese ; the 24-hour ATV World channel in English ; the 24-hour Cantonese satellite channel ATV Overseas , which was accessible in North America via satellite, and three digital DMB-T/H channels: ATV Asia , a 24-hour high-definition channel; CCTV-1 , the general channel of China Central Television . Before 1 April 2009, the following DMB-T/H channels were in operation: News & Business ,
1925-678: The Cantonese-language ATV Home and the English-language ATV World . Despite its relatively small market share, ATV received numerous awards for its programmes. One of its successes was the local version of the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2001, which allowed ATV to enjoy a short-term upturn in its viewing figures. After 2000, ATV faced a gradual decline in production quality and viewership , as well as financial difficulties—a process hastened under
2002-693: The Chinese New Year holiday. The Communications Authority threatened to fine ATV over the suspension, as it violated conditions of its licence requiring the daily broadcast of the 15-minute evening newscasts in Cantonese and English. On 22 February 2016, the Communications Authority announced that it would issue a 30-day suspension to ATV effective April 2016 for violating licence conditions relating to news programming and missed license fee payments. Although ATV will have ceased broadcasting by then due to
2079-445: The Chiu family sold its shares of ATV to New World Group and Lai Sun Group for HK$ 237.5 million. The New World Group held half of the shares, while the Lam family owned one-third and Lai Sun held one-sixth. At the same time, Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau (STDM) joined as a minority shareholder. As announced by the board of directors, the new chairman was Cheng Yue-tung and
2156-481: The Executive Council ruled that it would not renew ATV's broadcasting licence. Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Gregory So explained that ATV's performance was "unsatisfactory" and had "clearly deteriorated after the mid-term review of its licence", and that the Communications Authority "[had] serious doubts as to whether ATV would be capable of making the necessary improvements, and whether it has
2233-547: The People's Republic of China, traditional Chinese characters are standardised according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters . Dictionaries published in mainland China generally show both simplified and their traditional counterparts. There are differences between the accepted traditional forms in mainland China and elsewhere, for example the accepted traditional form of 产 in mainland China
2310-725: The SAR. He was a founding member of the Better Hong Kong Foundation. Lim was implicated in the largest bribery scandal in Taiwan at the time. Lim was arrested by Taiwan's Bureau of Investigation on accusations that he offered NT$ 200 million in bribes to several officials of the Taipei County Land Administration Bureau, including its former director. Lim owned some land originally slated for farming and industrial use. After Lim bought it, officials allocated
2387-546: The TV station has begun to cater more to the interests of the mainland Chinese audience, who could now legally receive the channel. In the Pearl River Delta area of China, ATV used to enjoy a 70% ratings share in the late 90s, largely due to rebroadcasting rights. The ratings share has since reduced to 2–3%. The shift resulted in Hong Kong viewers complaining that programmes aired on the channel are "old-fashioned" and not in tune with
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2464-515: The United States during the second half of the 19th century, Chinese Americans have long used traditional characters. When not providing both, US public notices and signs in Chinese are generally written in traditional characters, more often than in simplified characters. In the past, traditional Chinese was most often encoded on computers using the Big5 standard, which favored traditional characters. However,
2541-498: The collective effort of ATV News . Given its focus on English-language programming in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking market, ATV World carried relatively little advertising and was subsidized by ATV Home. Free-to-air television companies in Hong Kong are required by the government to provide an English-language service. In the face of competition from TVB Pearl , ATV World switched focus from dramas and movies to documentaries and natural history shows, likely because such programming
2618-570: The company's subscription-based internet content streaming operations were announced in December 2017. Rediffusion Television (RTV), the predecessor to ATV, began as a wired radio broadcasting service in 1949. The original office was located on Arsenal Street and Hennessy Road. It launched its subscription-based TV service on 29 May 1957. In 1959, Rediffusion was moved to the offices that were occupied by Fortis Bank Tower. In 1962, Typhoon Wanda passed over Hong Kong, resulting in 130 deaths. Following
2695-413: The company, still facing liquidity issues, controversially advanced the outstanding salaries for December on condition that employees signed a loan agreement with the company belonging to the major shareholder, Wong Ben-koon. On 31 March 2015, ATV announced during its evening news that its main shareholders had agreed to sell their stake in the company to Ricky Wong 's Hong Kong Television Network (which
2772-731: The contract lapses. TVB is known to typecast their performers, with some always given lead roles and others always given supporting roles. As such, some actors left TVB for ATV in hopes of better opportunities, although in most cases the change of station could mean a drastic reduction in fame for the artist, as TVB is the dominant station in Hong Kong. The majority of the leading roles were given to veteran TVB actors. While some veteran TVB actors merely switched sides because their contracts ended, some joined because they were offered better compensation and positions than veteran TVB actors. There were several known incidents where TVB had certain dramas planned and were forced to cancel or rewrite scripts because
2849-542: The death of Jiang Zemin , former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party . Wang Zheng, at that time, rumored to be a distant relative of Jiang, was believed to be the source. The Communications Authority fined ATV 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
2926-539: The end of December 2014, the company said it would shortly pay half the back wages of its staff for September. By early January, the company was still owing the balance of salaries outstanding since November, and there were several terminations and redundancies as a result of the operating difficulties. ATV and its executive director Ip Ka-po received 34 prosecution notices from the Labour Department concerning unpaid wages from July through September. In late-January 2015,
3003-501: The expiration of its licence, the CA stated that it still issued the penalty out of fairness, because not doing so "would send a wrong message to the broadcasting sector, that a beleaguered and cash-strapped licensee would be given a carte blanche to contravene the BO and licence conditions" with few consequences. On 24 February 2016, the High Court of Hong Kong appointed the firm Deloitte to serve as
3080-519: The face of intense competition from the two rival broadcasters, ceased transmissions in August 1978. In 1976, the Hong Kong government introduced Mark Six , a new lottery system that was broadcast twice a week on Rediffusion. The first host of that show was Chun Chau Ha or Xia Chunqiu ( Chinese : 夏春秋 ). In 1981, Rediffusion in the UK sold 61% of its shares in RTV to an Australian consortium. In July 1982,
3157-406: The financial capability to deliver its investment plans, and indeed to continue its business as a going concern." As federal law requires broadcasters to be given one year's notice in the event of license revocation, the license was provisionally extended to 1 April 2016, after which ATV is required to cease broadcasting. Concurrently, the government announced the approval of an over-the-air license to
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3234-415: The form of convertible bonds. Tsai and Payson Cha have since debated over control of the station. 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. In
3311-540: The full equity of Star Platinum. It was also reported that about HK$ 35 million in unpaid wages of 640 former employees and HK$ 18 million from the Insolvency Fund were also paid after the company had acquired its majority stake. In December 2017, ATV announced that the company would continue its business with its new mobile app and OTT services , delivering programmes and shows through the internet instead of terrestrial broadcasting. They also announced their new series for
3388-425: The graduates are offered work at ATV. Like TVB, ATV used a contract artist system, in which the station acted as both employer and booking agent . Artists were signed to contracts which meant that they could only appear in that station's programmes; the artists were kept on a basic wage with additional fees paid on a per episode or per appearance basis. Acting as an artiste's booking agent, the station would also have
3465-493: The inverse is equally true as well. In digital media, many cultural phenomena imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan into mainland China, such as music videos, karaoke videos, subtitled movies, and subtitled dramas, use traditional Chinese characters. In Hong Kong and Macau , traditional characters were retained during the colonial period, while the mainland adopted simplified characters. Simplified characters are contemporaneously used to accommodate immigrants and tourists, often from
3542-413: The land for the new National Taipei University , allowing him to sell the land back to Taipei County for more than NT$ 890 million (US$ 28.6 million), an estimated NT$ 300 million above market value. He is alleged to have bribed officials to rezone the land. In 1999, he was found guilty on charges of bribery and money laundering through the land deals, but his prison sentence of 38 months
3619-473: The last round, ATV had its licence renewed in December 2004 for another 12 years. Under the new terms of the licence, the Broadcasting Authority required that ATV World provide bilingual subtitles on news, weather, and current affairs shows, educational shows, and public service announcements, as well as more cultural and arts shows. In its final years, viewing figures for ATV Home had fallen sharply, as
3696-501: The latest. On 7 March, only a day after the layoffs took effect, China Cultural Media Group reached a deal to invest in ATV, pay outstanding staff wages for 2016, and operating costs for March, allowing the network to re-hire 160 employees to continue operating ATV in the interim. However, the outstanding wages would not be paid until 2 April. ATV spokesperson stated that the broadcaster was considering alternate outlets for its programming following
3773-434: The leadership of Wang Zheng. ATV's credibility was severely damaged in 2011 after its news department had falsely reported that Jiang Zemin had died. On 1 April 2015, Hong Kong's Executive Council announced that ATV's broadcast license would not be renewed. ATV's channels ceased over-the-air transmission on 1 April 2016. ATV announced that it planned to continue its business as a digital and satellite broadcaster. Plans for
3850-725: The mainland. The increasing use of simplified characters has led to concern among residents regarding protecting what they see as their local heritage. Taiwan has never adopted simplified characters. The use of simplified characters in government documents and educational settings is discouraged by the government of Taiwan. Nevertheless, with sufficient context simplified characters are likely to be successfully read by those used to traditional characters, especially given some previous exposure. Many simplified characters were previously variants that had long been in some use, with systematic stroke simplifications used in folk handwriting since antiquity. Traditional characters were recognized as
3927-682: The majority of Chinese text in mainland China are simplified characters , there is no legislation prohibiting the use of traditional Chinese characters, and often traditional Chinese characters remain in use for stylistic and commercial purposes, such as in shopfront displays and advertising. Traditional Chinese characters remain ubiquitous on buildings that predate the promulgation of the current simplification scheme, such as former government buildings, religious buildings, educational institutions, and historical monuments. Traditional Chinese characters continue to be used for ceremonial, cultural, scholarly/academic research, and artistic/decorative purposes. In
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#17329170993734004-975: The merging of previously distinct character forms. Many Chinese online newspapers allow users to switch between these character sets. Traditional characters are known by different names throughout the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially refers to traditional Chinese characters as 正體字 ; 正体字 ; zhèngtǐzì ; 'orthodox characters'. This term is also used outside Taiwan to distinguish standard characters, including both simplified, and traditional, from other variants and idiomatic characters . Users of traditional characters elsewhere, as well as those using simplified characters, call traditional characters 繁體字 ; 繁体字 ; fántǐzì ; 'complex characters', 老字 ; lǎozì ; 'old characters', or 全體字 ; 全体字 ; quántǐzì ; 'full characters' to distinguish them from simplified characters. Some argue that since traditional characters are often
4081-448: The middle of the 20th century, when various countries that use Chinese characters began standardizing simplified sets of characters, often with characters that existed before as well-known variants of the predominant forms. Simplified characters as codified by the People's Republic of China are predominantly used in mainland China , Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is
4158-665: The official script in Singapore until 1969, when the government officially adopted Simplified characters. Traditional characters still are widely used in contexts such as in baby and corporation names, advertisements, decorations, official documents and in newspapers. The Chinese Filipino community continues to be one of the most conservative in Southeast Asia regarding simplification. Although major public universities teach in simplified characters, many well-established Chinese schools still use traditional characters. Publications such as
4235-700: The original standard forms, they should not be called 'complex'. Conversely, there is a common objection to the description of traditional characters as 'standard', due to them not being used by a large population of Chinese speakers. Additionally, as the process of Chinese character creation often made many characters more elaborate over time, there is sometimes a hesitation to characterize them as 'traditional'. Some people refer to traditional characters as 'proper characters' ( 正字 ; zhèngzì or 正寫 ; zhèngxiě ) and to simplified characters as 簡筆字 ; 简笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'simplified-stroke characters' or 減筆字 ; 减笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'reduced-stroke characters', as
4312-410: The pageant was described as "ATV's biggest investment of the year". In 2020 ATV announced that they had formed a partnership with UK production company Phoenix Waters Productions to relaunch their drama department and develop a slate of Films, Series, and Variety shows spearheaded by PWP CEO Bizhan Tong . This would start with international thriller Lockdown (2021) to be filmed around the world during
4389-493: The passage of Wanda, Rediffusion broadcast the first-ever fund-raising special. The first televised artiste course broadcast was in 1966 under the title, "Ying Li's voice." In October 1968, new shows were broadcast on Rediffusion, including variety, sports, and other leisure of interest that attracted more viewers. The most notable show at that time was " Master Q ". It also led the trend in acquiring Japanese anime shows, including Osamu Tezuka 's Astro Boy in 1966. Rediffusion
4466-461: The preferences of the Hong Kong TV audience. In 2010, Chinese property businessman Wang Zheng became known as ATV's "major shareholder" and began to exercise actual control over the board of directors when his relative-in-law Wong Ben Koon, who is a Hong Kong resident, purchased 52% of ATV's shares from Cha's brothers and other shareholders, although Wang himself was not a member of the board. This
4543-524: The show Baak Maan Fu Yung (local version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ), which is hosted by former general manager of TVB, Stephan Chan . The app also includes previous ATV original dramas and documentaries. The OTT service is operated by ATV's subsidiary, Asia Television Digital Media Limited . In June 2018, ATV announced that they are rebooting the Miss Asia Pageant since the hiatus in 2015. Partnered with South Korean company CJ E&M ,
4620-1106: The shutdown, including the internet. The final program aired by ATV Home was a repeat of a special celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Miss Asia Pageant . Although a public relations manager stated that ATV was planning to broadcast one more edition of the Miss Asia Pageant before ATV's shutdown, former producer Wingo Ng stated that ATV did not have enough money and staff to produce such a programme. ATV's channels signed off shortly before midnight local time on 1 April. RTHK TV 31 and TV33 ( CGTN Documentary ) began broadcasting on ATV's analogue channels shortly after midnight on 2 April 2016. HKTVE also soft-launched its new digital channel, ViuTV , ahead of its formal launch on 6 April. After ATV formally ceased free TV broadcasting, ATV Investor Secretary Rong Rongbin pledged shares of Star Platinum Corporation, which holds 99% of its shares, to borrow HK$ 300 million from Xiesheng Xiefeng to save ATV, but did not repay on time; therefore, in July 2016, it acquired
4697-404: The star(s) of the role left for other opportunities and vice versa. While TVB also acquired ATV actors, the cross-over was higher in frequency with TVB actors to ATV. With the disbandment of ATV's in-house drama department and the station's retreat from making its dramas, there was no longer any work for its actors and most have since found alternative employment. In 1994, ATV controversially ran
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#17329170993734774-563: The station or their advertising agency, "before you come up with your final solution ". Traditional Chinese characters Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages . In Taiwan , the set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters . These forms were predominant in written Chinese until
4851-469: The talk show Late Show with David Letterman (大衛牙擦騷) as of 1 January 2009, but there was a grass-roots movement to bring it back. Arts and sports programming were also offered (e.g. local horse racing , in Chinese 賽馬直擊). Mandarin and Korean programmes were available on ATV World at off-peak hours. ATV World's flagship English news programme was Main News and Weather Report at 7:30 , provided under
4928-578: The traditional character set used in Taiwan ( TC ) and the set used in Hong Kong ( HK ). Most Chinese-language webpages now use Unicode for their text. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends the use of the language tag zh-Hant to specify webpage content written with traditional characters. In the Japanese writing system , kyujitai are traditional forms, which were simplified to create shinjitai for standardized Japanese use following World War II. Kyūjitai are mostly congruent with
5005-970: The traditional characters in Chinese, save for minor stylistic variation. Characters that are not included in the jōyō kanji list are generally recommended to be printed in their traditional forms, with a few exceptions. Additionally, there are kokuji , which are kanji wholly created in Japan, rather than originally being borrowed from China. In the Korean writing system , hanja —replaced almost entirely by hangul in South Korea and totally replaced in North Korea —are mostly identical with their traditional counterparts, save minor stylistic variations. As with Japanese, there are autochthonous hanja, known as gukja . Traditional Chinese characters are also used by non-Chinese ethnic groups. The Maniq people living in Thailand and Malaysia use Chinese characters to write
5082-509: The ubiquitous Unicode standard gives equal weight to simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and has become by far the most popular encoding for Chinese-language text. There are various input method editors (IMEs) available for the input of Chinese characters . Many characters, often dialectical variants, are encoded in Unicode but cannot be inputted using certain IMEs, with one example being
5159-628: The vice-chairman was Lim Por Yen. The administrative director was Selina Chow . In November 2002, Lai Sun Development, which was heavily indebted following the HK$ 7 ;billion acquisition of the Furama Hotel at the height of the property bubble in 1997, announced that it would sell its 32.75% stake to the company's chief executive, Chan Wing-kee (陳永棋), for HK$ 360 million in cash. In June 2007, Chan, along with Liu Changle (劉長樂), chairman of Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Limited , established
5236-531: The withdrawal of the Australian enterprise, the Chiu family bought all of the shares. In August 1987, the shares of ATV were put up for sale. One year later, Asia Television Limited, the Lim family (led by Lim Por-yen ), and the New World Group each owned one-third of the shares. At that time, the members of the board of directors included Deacon Chiu , Lim Por-yen, Fang Li and Cheng Yu-tung . On 30 January 1989,
5313-571: The words for simplified and reduced are homophonous in Standard Chinese , both pronounced as jiǎn . The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE , with the sets of forms and norms more or less stable since the Southern and Northern dynasties period c. the 5th century . Although
5390-417: Was assigned as new the chief executive while former PCCW deputy chairman Linus Cheung Wing-lam became executive chairman. After just 2 weeks Ricky Wong resigned from his position due to many factors . In early 2009, Taiwanese billionaire Tsai Eng-Meng signed a preliminary agreement to become a key shareholder of Alnery, a company that controls 47.58% of ATV. Tsai has agreed to inject HK$ 1 billion in
5467-553: Was forced to quit his role as executive director. ATV came under heavy pressure from the community when its ATV Focus smeared anti- Moral and National Education pupils and when it broadcast a live show of Wang leading a group of artists dancing in front of the Central Government Offices to call for the government not to issue new free-to-air licences. On 19 June 2013, the Hop Chung Tourist Car Company –
5544-496: Was founded in 1947, and later listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange . He successfully diversified into real estate in 1987 when he set up another vehicle, Lai Sun Development . He is said to have made in excess of ¥700 million in donations to causes throughout China, of which Shantou's share was more than half. He has been a supporter of education in Hong Kong by setting up several schools. He also donated to
5621-522: Was given a free-to-air television broadcasting license in 1973 by the Hong Kong Government, which had switched to using wireless television. Rediffusion (later ATV) and TVB (launched on 19 November 1967) have since formed a duopoly in free-to-air terrestrial TV broadcasting in Hong Kong for more than 40 years. A third broadcaster, Commercial Television , entered the market in September 1975, but in
5698-429: Was less expensive to acquire. Although movies formerly aired on Saturdays, movies acquired by ATV were generally aired on Monday nights, leading to The Late News programme. Asia Television Training Institute was founded to train people who are interested in joining the television industry. There are four faculties including television production, television artwork, television talent and technical production. Some of
5775-478: Was provided by CNN and CBS . The broadcaster was long recognized as pro-Beijing. ATV aired a range of television programmes, including news , infotainment , drama, and variety shows. In addition to producing its shows, ATV acquired popular TV programmes from overseas markets to cater to changing audience tastes. Of note, ATV bought popular TV dramas from South Korea and Mainland China for broadcast in prime time. Before 2 April 2016, ATV operated six channels:
5852-469: Was reduced by one year. His appeal of this conviction was still under consideration at the time of his death. At his death he remained legally married to his first wife, Lai Yuen-Fong. His second wife, U Po-chu, is a 50-year veteran of the garment industry and is a non-executive director of Lai Sun Garment. Lim died on 18 February 2005 at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam , from a lung infection; he
5929-469: Was the subject of a failed bid for an over-the-air license before electing to launch as an internet television service instead). Although he had met with ATV staff a few days prior, Wong denied that a deal had been made, while legislators argued that the report was intended to mislead the Executive Council into believing that ATV was in the process of addressing its financial issues. On 1 April 2015,
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