ATV News

ATV News
亞視新聞

Country	Hong Kong
Broadcast area	Regional
Headquarters	Hong Kong
Ownership
Owner	Asia Television
History
Launched	May 29, 1957; 67 years ago (1957-05-29)
Closed	April 1, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-04-01)
Links
Website	www.hkatvnews.com

ATV News
Traditional Chinese	亞視新聞
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yàshì Xīnwén Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization A sih sān mán Jyutping A3 si6 san1 man2

An ATV News car

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.

External links

• ATV News Home Page