TVB

Television Broadcasts Limited
Native name
電視廣播有限公司
Company typePublic
SEHK511
IndustryTelevision broadcasting; media and entertainment
Founded19 November 1967; 57 years ago (1967-11-19) in Broadcast Drive, Kowloon Tong, British Hong Kong
Headquarters77 Chun Choi Street,
Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, New Territories, Hong Kong
Area served
Cantonese Language Markets (Worldwide)
Key people
ProductsTVB Jade, TVB Pearl, TVB Anywhere, MyTV Super, TVBS, TVBNews, TVB.com, TVB Publishing, TVBUSA, TVB8, TVB.cn
RevenueHK$2.5 billion (2022)
-HK$0.8 billion (2022)
Number of employees
3,200 (2023)
ParentClear Water Bay Land Company Limited
Websitewww.tvb.com
TVB
Traditional Chinese電視廣播有限公司
Simplified Chinese电视广播有限公司
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDiànshì Guǎngbō Yǒuxiàngōngsī
Hakka
Romanizationdhien sih ghuång-bóh youh kaan khoüng sí
Pha̍k-fa-sṳDhién-syi ghuång-bó yauh-shiäan khoüng sih
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationdinh sih gwóng bo yauh haahn gūng sī
Jyutpingdin6 si6 gwong2 bo3 yau5 haan6 gung1 si1
Southern Min
Teochew Peng'imTihan si gong but you kian khong sik

Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong. The company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and TVB Pearl as its main English service. TVB is headquartered at TVB City at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate.

TVB commenced broadcasting on November 19, 1967. The company was incorporated on July 26, 1965[1] and was co-founded by Sir Run Run Shaw, who was chairman from 1980 to 2012, together with Sir Douglas Clague and Harold Lee Hsiao-wo of the Lee Hysan family.[2] When TVB first began broadcasting it was commonly known and promoted as "Wireless Television" (無綫電視) in Chinese to distinguish it from the then cable television broadcaster, Rediffusion Television (麗的呼聲), which later became ATV (亞洲電視). It is still usually referred to with that name, although ATV later switched to "wireless" (free-to-air) broadcasting as well.

TVB is known primarily for its dramas, and produces the Miss Hong Kong and Miss Chinese International pageants. It has historically been the leading television broadcaster in Hong Kong.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ C.R. No:0011781(Television Broadcasts Limited)—The Cyber Search Centre of the Integrated Companies Registry Information System
  2. ^ "When Hong Kong was a colour TV pioneer, 26 November 2016, Post Magazine". 26 November 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  3. ^ Chow, Vivienne (29 March 2015). "Wong Ching, the leading man in ATV's sorry drama". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Farewell ATV as its survival fight ends". The Standard. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  5. ^ "ATV, World's Oldest Chinese TV Channel, Closes Down". Variety. 2 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.