Forever Top (Asia) Limited () is a company based 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 ...

founded by , the current head of

Far East Consortium Far East Consortium International Limited (FEC) () is a company with its head office in Central, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1950 by Deacon Chiu and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972. FEC is mainly engaged in property developmen ...

. The company initially applied for a

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

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 ...

under the name of New Asia Network (NAN; ), but it later withdrew the application, and acquired

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 servi ...

instead.

Background

David Chiu is a son of Deacon Chiu Te-ken, the founder of

. Deacon Chiu bought the

Rediffusion Television Rediffusion Television (RTV) was the first television station in Hong Kong, making it both the first British colony and the first predominantly ethnically Chinese city to have television.Kitley, Philip. 003(2003). Television, Regulation and ...

(RTV) in 1982 and renamed it

Asia Television Asia Television Limited (, also known as ATV) is a digital media and broadcasting company in Hong Kong. Established as the first television service in Hong Kong as Rediffusion Television () on 29 May 1957, it shifted to terrestrial televisio ...

(ATV) before he sold the broadcaster in 1989. Forever Top's free-to-air television bid New Asia Network was named in memory of ATV.

New Asia Network

In 2015, Forever Top applied for a free-to-air television broadcast licence under the name of New Asia Network. One of the company's goals was to acquire the assets of ATV, whose licence would be revoked after 1 April 2016. However, Forever Top later withdrew the application. In 2017, the company instead acquired

, the parent company of Hong Kong Cable Television and

Fantastic Television Fantastic Television Limited () is a commercial free-to-air television broadcasting company in Hong Kong owned by i-Cable Communications, which also owns Hong Kong Cable Television (Cable TV). Fantastic Television draws resources and programming ...

i-Cable Communications

References

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