Fantastic Television Limited () is a commercial

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA Receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring ...

television broadcasting company in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

owned by

i-Cable Communications i-Cable Communications Limited () is Hong Kong telecommunications company owned by Forever Top (Asia) Limited, which acquired the company from The Wharf Group in 2017. Founded in 1999, the company provides broadband internet and pay-TV servic ...

, which also owns

Hong Kong Cable Television Hong Kong Cable Television Limited (), formerly known as Wharf Cable Television Limited () until 31 October 1998, is a cable television provider in Hong Kong currently owned by Forever Top (Asia) Limited, which operates it as a part of i-Cable ...

(Cable TV). Fantastic Television draws resources and programming libraries from Cable TV. Established in 2009, the company's

broadcast licence A broadcast license is a type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes. The licenses generally include restrictions, which vary f ...

was granted by the Hong Kong Government on 31 May 2016. The company operates three channels: Cantonese HOY TV since 14 May 2017, English Hong Kong International Business Channel (HKIBC) since 30 July 2018, and Cantonese HOY Information Channel since 21 November 2022. As of 2018, Fantastic Television's channels are broadcast through Cable TV's network, and not available on terrestrial television. On 1 April 2022, Fantastic Television's channels are broadcast free-to-air.

Channels

* HOY TV (channel 77): Formerly named Fantastic TV Chinese Channel and Hong Kong Open TV ( zh, t=香港開電視). * Hong Kong International Business Channel ( zh, t=香港國際財經台, channel 76): The channel was tentatively named Fantastic TV English Channel, but after

Forever Top Forever Top (Asia) Limited () is a company based in Hong Kong founded by , the current head of Far East Consortium. The company initially applied for a free-to-air television broadcast licence under the name of New Asia Network (NAN; ), but it ...

's acquisition of Fantastic Television's parent company I-Cable Communications in 2017, it was later announced in early June 2018 that the channel would be launched as an English and Putonghua business channel named HKIBC. The channel simulcasts

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for most of the day, but also relays

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in the mornings from 7 am to 9 am. The channel produces English language news bulletins which are aired in the evenings, and also airs non-business and obligatory programmes as mandated in the licence. * HOY Infortainment ( zh, t=HOY資訊台, channel 78) launched on 21 November 2022.

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