Owned by Asia Television Broadcast area Regional | Country Hong Kong Headquarters Hong Kong | |
Launched May 29, 1957; 59 years ago (1957-05-29) Closed April 1, 2016; 10 months ago (2016-04-01) | ||
ATV News (Chinese: 亞視新聞, Pinyin: Yà shì xīnwén) was the newsgathering arm of ATV in Hong Kong. It provided news programmes to both its ATV Home and ATV World.
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On April 11, 2011, ATV News unveiled its new title sequence, which was turned out to be a copy of a personal conception of BBC News title sequence published by Michael Wood on YouTube. Days later, they were forced to revert to the previous title as a result.
Due to ATV's chronic financial problems, most of the newsgathering staff were laid off on 6 February 2016. On 20 February 2016, ATV was ordered to restore production of Cantonese news until the end of ATV's broadcast licence period 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:
Its two English-language news programmes were ATV Newsline, a discussion show, and ATV Inside Story, a topical magazine show.