Television in Hong Kong

Television in Hong Kong has both free over the air channels and several subscription cable networks.

Broadcast channels

There are two free-to-air television services in Hong Kong:

*Asia Television Limited : operates one English-language and one Chinese-language channel.
*Television Broadcasts Limited : operates one English-language and one Chinese-language channel.

Defunct free-to-air television services in Hong Kong

* Commercial Television , from 1975 to 1978.
* Rediffusion Television , from 1973 to 1982, at which point it became Asia Television Limited .

Subscription cable networks

Four cable television networks:
*''Hong Kong Cable Television Ltd '': controlled by Wharf Holdings, operates over one hundred channels with programmes broadcast in , , and other languages.
*''PCCW-HKT Interactive Multimedia Services Ltd '': provides sixteen free channels and over eighty pay channels with programmes broadcast in English language, and .
*''Hong Kong Broadband Network Ltd '': provides over seventy pay channels.
*''TVB Pay Vision Ltd '': provides over thirty pay channels, included 8 TVB channels, and Celestial Movies, a movie channel which screen movies produced by Shaw Brothers Ltd., the parent company of TVB.