ATV News () was the newsgathering arm of ATV in

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. It provided news programmes to both its

ATV Home ATV Home () was a free-to-air Cantonese television channel in Hong Kong, owned and operated by Asia Television. It was formed in September 1963 as a result of the split of the bilingual Rediffusion Television subscription service (which was pri ...

and

ATV World ATV World, was one of two free-to-air English language television channels in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival TVB Pearl. Its sister station, ATV Home, broadcast in Cantonese language. It is owned and operated by Asia Television, a ...

. On April 11, 2011, ATV News unveiled its new title sequence, which was turned out to be a copy of a personal conception of

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. Days later, they were forced to revert to the previous title as a result. 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.

Current affairs

Besides producing daily news reports, ATV offered eight news programmes: Cantonese, Mandarin, English. Its news programmes broadcast in Cantonese were: * ''

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'' (窩輪有法) * '' Mr. Tsang's Show'' (曾sir28騷) Its two English-language news programmes were ''

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'', a discussion show, and ''

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'', a topical magazine show.

Notable staff

ATV World

Claire Yiu Claire Yiu Ka-lei (born 10 August 1978), is a Hong Kong actress contracted to TVB. Career Yiu started her acting career after being the 2nd runner-up in the Miss Asia Pageant in 1998. After filming some ATV series, such as 海瑞鬥嚴嵩, and ...

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External links

ATV News Home Page
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