ATV News
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.
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 | ATV News Home Page |
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Traditional Chinese | 亞視新聞 | ||||||||||||
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On April 11, 2011, ATV News unveiled its new title sequence, which was turned out to be a copy of a personal conception of BBC News title sequence published by Michael Wood on YouTube. Days later, they were forced to revert to the previous title as a result.
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.
Current affairs
Besides producing daily news reports, ATV offered eight news programmes: Cantonese, Mandarin, 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.
Notable staff
ATV World
- Claire Yiu
- Tim Bredbury