More than 640,000 Hongkongers chose to watch Hong Kong Television Network on Wednesday. The birth of Ricky Wong Wai-kay's new online TV platform sends a strong signal that the government's regulatory ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-21
Television Broadcasts Ltd., Hong Kong's leading broadcaster, put up its largest variety show to mark its 47th anniversary on Wednesday. But although the city's most popular television stars attended t ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-21
Who cares about a marriage proposal made for television? Apparently, a lot of Hong Kong people do. So, when actor-comedian Wong Cho-lam went on bended knee to ask for his beauty queen girlfriend's han ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
TVB is celebrating its 47th birthday today. HKTV chairman Ricky Wong Wai-kay chose the same day to launch his new television service, making it clear to everyone that he is throwing down the gauntlet ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
TVB Ltd., Hong Kong's largest television broadcaster, is the subject of a complaint by a village leader over a controversial crime drama. Heung Yee Kuk member Leung Fuk-yuen brought the complaint agai ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-19
Running Man, a South Korean variety show, has made a splash across Asia. Classified as an "urban action variety", the show gains much of its success from its unique format and hilarious situations. In ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-18
Entertainment tycoon Albert Yeung Sau-shing is ready to make a big acquisition -- possibly Asia Television (ATV) -- after selling his empire's magazine arm for HK$950 million. Yeung signed a memorandu ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-17
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) is said to have penalized some newsroom staff following the recent internal conflict over alleged censorship issues. Taking umbrage at a petition launched last month b ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-14
When it comes to the crunch, it is money and career that matter more than one's political beliefs. This is the message that many entertainment celebrities in Hong Kong are sending out now as they avo ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-14
Hong Kong's Communications Authority is said to be recommending that the license of the cash-strapped free-to-air broadcaster Asia Television Ltd. (ATV) not be renewed, the Hong Kong Economic Journal ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
Ricky Wong Wai-kay finally has something to really cheer about. After being thwarted in his bid to secure a free-to-air television license in Hong Kong last year, the boss of Hong Kong Television Net ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
A journalist group is ripping into Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) after it demoted an assistant news editor responsible for the broadcast of a video showing Hong Kong police beating a pro-democracy ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
The Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) has not only overrun in its budget, its economic benefit is also now in question in view of issues pertaining to "co-l ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) reiterated its demand for a full investigation into a recent attack on its journalists and distanced itself from a move by a company official to block an online petiti ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-30
The management and staff of Television Broadcast Ltd. (TVB) are at odds over an online petition to condemn violence against journalists. The petition, signed by more than 340 former and current employ ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-30
Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok has compared the Occupy protests to a very dangerous high-speed train that has veered off from the path of peace and lost control, am730 reported on Tuesday. Speak ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
It’s interesting to see how China's censors have shifted their tactics from blocking news about the Hong Kong protests to waging a carefully orchestrated propaganda war to smear the movement. When the ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy campaign did not involve any foreign powers as western countries have no intention of meddling in the protests, an academic said. Simon Shen Xuhui, associate professor ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-27
The Chief Executive's Office said it fully respects the freedom of press and that it condemns any violence against journalists. The comments came after four journalists -- three from local broadcaster ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-27
What? President Xi Jinping has left Beijing to be with Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters? And not just as a sympathizer but an active participant? Pictures of the Chinese leader, with his trousers ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
