ATV News
亞視新聞
Country Hong Kong
Broadcast areaRegional
HeadquartersHong Kong
Ownership
OwnerAsia Television
History
LaunchedMay 29, 1957 (1957-05-29)
ClosedApril 1, 2016 (2016-04-01)
Links
WebsiteATV News Home Page
ATV News
Traditional Chinese亞視新聞

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]

Current affairs

Besides producing daily news reports, ATV offered eight news programmes in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Its news programmes broadcast in Cantonese were:

  • Decoding Current Affairs (時事解碼)
  • Following Ad Hoc News (時事熱點追蹤)
  • Investment Strategy (窩輪有法)
  • Mr. Tsang's Show (曾sir28騷)

Its two English-language news programmes were ATV Newsline, a discussion show, and ATV Inside Story, a topical magazine show.

References

  1. ↑ Chow, Vivienne (29 March 2015). "Wong Ching, the leading man in ATV's sorry drama". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "新聞背景：過不了60大壽的香港亞洲電視". BBC News 中文 (in Traditional Chinese). 1 April 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "ATV staff lay blame for Hong Kong station's demise with mainland investor Wong Ching". South China Morning Post. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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