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| Broadcast Drive | |||||||||||
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 The Educational Television Centre of the Radio Television Hong Kong on Broadcast Drive | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 廣播道 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 广播道 | ||||||||||
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Broadcast Drive is a road in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. The road is notable as it is only 1 km long but having played host to all five broadcasting outlets in Hong Kong at one point in the 1970s, and the hill on which the road is located was known in Chinese as Ng Toi Shan (五台山, lit. five-station hill) during that time. The five broadcasters were:
- Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), whose headquarters (Broadcasting House) was inaugurated in 1969 at 30 Broadcast Drive
- Commercial Radio Hong Kong (CRHK)
- Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)
- Rediffusion Television (RTV), later renamed Asia Television (ATV); and
- Commercial Television
The area became known as Four-station Hill (四台山) in 1978 following Commercial Television's collapse. Its studio building was acquired by RTHK for its television unit, and was reopened as Television House in 1986.
TVB moved its operations to the Clear Water Bay TV City in 1988, and ATV moved to Tai Po in 2007, leaving RTHK and CRHK the only remaining broadcasters on the road. RTHK has announced plans to move its operations to Tseung Kwan O within the next few years. The reason for the departure of broadcast stations is partly due to the rising value of the land occupied and stations cashing in the rise in value.
The area is also a well known high end (though gradually ageing) residential neighbourhood, and is home to those mainly from professional and upper middle class backgrounds.