Hong Kong Technology Venture

Not to be confused with HK Television Entertainment, ultimately owned by PCCW.
For other meanings of "Hong Kong Television", see Hong Kong Television.

Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited
香港科技探索有限公司
Company typePublic
Industrye-Commerce
(formerly broadcasting)
Founded19 May 1992; 32 years ago (1992-05-19)[1]
HeadquartersHKTV Multimedia and Ecommerce Centre,
1 Chun Cheong Street,
Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, Tseung Kwan O
Area served
Hong Kong
Key people
Ricky Wong
ServicesHKTVMall
Websitewww.hktv.com.hk
www.hktvmall.com

Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited (HKTV, Chinese: 香港科技探索有限公司) is a Hong Kong–based technology company primarily known for its e-commerce platform and once had plans to become a television station. HKTV currently provides an over-the-top shopping and entertainment ("shoppertainment") platform named HKTVMall.[2]

Logo of its e-commerce platform – HKTVmall.

In 2009, HKTV (then-City Telecom) applied for domestic free-to-air television programme service licence, but was rejected by the Hong Kong government in October 2013.[3] Later, HKTV acquired a mobile TV licence and planned to launch the first two channels but this plan was foiled again. It commenced live and video on demand broadcasting through internet on 19 November 2014, while refiling an application for a free-to-air licence. HKTV had fought a series of legal battles against the government, until it withdrew its application for free-to-air licence and surrendered its mobile television licenses to the Communications Authority in March 2018.[4]

On 13 July 2021, the company changed its name from Hong Kong Television Network to Hong Kong Technology Venture.[5]

  1. ^ "Company Profile". HKTV. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  2. ^ Chow, Vivienne (1 November 2014). "HKTV dramas to be screened first in Malaysia". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  3. ^ PCCW, i-Cable awarded free TV licenses, Ricky Wong draws a blank
  4. ^ "After 8-year fight, HKTV to abandon hopes for gov't TV licence to focus on online shopping | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  5. ^ "CHANGE OF COMPANY NAME AND CHANGE OF STOCK SHORT NAMES" (PDF). HKTV. Retrieved 19 August 2021.