TVB Anywhere is an online

pay-TV Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but ...

and shopping platform launched by Hong Kong television station Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) for non-Hong Kong audience in 2016. It streams content from its TV channel via

set-top box A set-top box (STB), also colloquially known as a cable box and historically television decoder, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV-tuner input and displays output to a television set and an external source of sign ...

and

mobile app A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on d ...

lication. The service targets

Overseas Chinese Overseas Chinese () refers to people of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Terminology () or ''Hoan-kheh'' () in Hokkien, refe ...

. The set-top box service supports all overseas countries except for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, United States and Canada; the mobile application named TVBAnywhere+ supports all overseas countries except for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Canada, United States and Vietnam.

Background

Before TVB Anywhere, TVB launched similar products such as TVB Europe and TVB USA. Due to the use of illegal over-the-top (OTT) video set-top boxes and pirated video-streaming services in overseas markets, TVB launched TVB Anywhere to stop such actions. Since the launch of TVB Anywhere, it also replaces the satellite broadcasts by TVB Europe and TVB Australia. For users in Hong Kong, myTV SUPER is a similar service, or they could watch TVB's

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

channel. On 26 October 2018, TVB Anywhere has launch in Singapore. But, there is no live TV and only available as a SVOD. On 7 April 2020, TVB Anywhere has launched in USA as TVB Anywhere USA aimed at American audiences with live TV from Jadeworld's Channels and streaming video on demand.

List of channels

Current

* Asian Action Channel * Horse Racing Channel 88 (not available in Macau and the other territories) *

KBS World KBS World is the Korean Broadcasting System's international broadcasting service. It consists of KBS World Radio, KBS World television channel and KBS Korea. History The foreign-language radio broadcast from KBS (before its restructure into a ...

(Canada, Australasia and Europe only) * Mainland News Channel * Phoenix Chinese Channel Australia (Australasia only) *

Phoenix Chinese News and Entertainment Channel Phoenix Chinese News and Entertainment or Phoenix CNE Channel is one of the six channels that Phoenix Television operates. It was launched in August 1999 in order to serve Chinese viewers in Europe. This channel is a 24-hour free-to-air channel ...

(Europe only) *

Phoenix Hong Kong Channel Phoenix Hong Kong Channel is one of the six channels that Phoenix Television operates. It was launched on 28 March 2011 in order to serve Chinese viewers in Hong Kong, and it is Phoenix Television's first Yue Chinese-language channel that is avai ...

(Canada only with U.S.A. version) *

Phoenix InfoNews Channel Phoenix InfoNews Channel is a Hong Kong pay television news channel owned by Phoenix Television. It is the first channel to report news across the Greater China region, which includes mainland China, Macau, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The channel firs ...

(not available of all other territories) *

Phoenix North America Chinese Channel Phoenix North America Chinese Channel is one of the six channels that Phoenix Television operates. It was launched on 1 January 2001 in order to serve Chinese viewers in North America, and it is the first Chinese language channel that is availa ...

(Canada only with U.S.A. version) * SCTV 1 (Australia only) * SCTV 7 (Australia only) * SCTV 9 (Australia only) * SCTV 14 (Australia only) *

Star Chinese Movies Star Chinese Movies is a Chinese language pay television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (Taiwan) Ltd. It features Chinese films, featuring famous actors such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Andy Lau, Sammi Che ...

(Fairchild Pack as Canada only) * TVBS Asia (Australia only) *

TVBS News TVBS News or (TVBS-N) is a Taiwanese pay television channel. Launched in 1995, it is the first 24-hour nationwide news channel in the country. Newscasts Current news sections are named as follows. (All time HKT) * Morning News (Weekdays: 09:00 ...

(Australia only) * TVB Classic Movies (not available in all other territories) * TVB Entertainment News Channel *

TVB Finance & Information Channel TVB Finance, Sports & Information Channel (formerly TVB Finance Channel and TVB Finance & Information Channel, ) is a 24-hour non-stop Cantonese finance information channel based in Hong Kong and operated by TVB. The channel provides financial, ...

* TVBJ (Australia) (Australasia only) * TVB Jade International * TVB Korean Drama (Macau only) * TVB Live Show *

TVB News Channel TVB News Channel (previously TVB iNews) is a 24-hour non-stop Cantonese news and information channel based in Hong Kong and Asia, utilizing the resources of TVB News TVB News (), formally known as the News and Information Division (), is the ...

* TVB Radio *

TVB Xing He TVB Xing He 星河 is a HK pay television channel owned by TVB International. History On 31 December 2017, TVB Satellite Broadcasting Limited was established. and is the only one to enter overseas Chinese satellite TV market. TVB Xing He Chann ...

Great Wall TV

* Anhui TV International * BTV International Channel *

CCTV-4 CCTV-4 is a Chinese free-to-air television channel. It is one of six China Central Television channels that broadcasts outside the People's Republic of China. This channel contains a variety of programs including documentaries, music, news, dr ...

* CCTV Entertainment * CCTV Chinese Opera *

CGTN Documentary CGTN Documentary (formerly CCTV-9 Documentary) is a Chinese pay television channel operated by the China Global Television Network (CGTN) group, owned by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). The channel broadcasts documenta ...

* Chongqing TV International * Dragon TV (Global) * Fujian Straits TV * GRT World * Guangxi TV International * Great Wall Elite * Hunan TV World * Jiagsu TV International * Shandong TV International * Sichuan TV International * Shenzhen TV (Global) * TVS-2 (Global) * Yunnan TV International * Zhejiang TV International

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TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and TVB ...

* TVB Europe * TVB USA * TVB Korea Channel

External links

Official website

References

Television stations in Hong Kong Mass media in Hong Kong {{HongKong-tv-stub