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Country | China |
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Broadcast area | Hong Kong Macau Guangdong Province |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 576i (PAL) 4:3 576i (SDTV) 16:9 |
Ownership | |
Owner | Asia Television |
History | |
Launched | 29 May 1957 |
Closed | 2 April 2016 |
Replaced by | RTHK TV 33A CCTV-1 Mandarin (on analogue) |
Former names | Rediffusion Television English Network (29 May 1957 – 29 September 1963) Rediffusion Television English Channel (30 September 1963 – 1 February 1967) RTV-2 (2 February 1967 – 23 September 1982) ATV English (24 September 1982 – 1 February 1987) ATV Diamond (2 February 1987 – 12 February 1989) ATV World (13 February 1989 – 2 April 2016) |
Links | |
Website | HKatv.com/World (in English) |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Hong Kong Analogue | Varied by district |
Hong Kong Digital | Channel 16 |
ATV World | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 國際台 | ||||||||
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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, and was broadcast from the ATV Enterprises Office at 25–37 Dai Shing Street in Tai Po Innovation Park in Tai Po, which is in the Tai Po District, in the North East region of Hong Kong's New Territories.