Type | Subsidiary |
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Country | |
First air date | 22 March 1949 (radio) 29 May 1957 (television) |
TV transmitters | British Hong Kong |
Headquarters | Broadcast Drive, British Hong Kong |
Broadcast area | British Hong Kong |
Owner | BET, Broadcast Relay Services |
Dissolved | 24 September 1982 |
Language | English Cantonese |
Replaced by | Asia Television |
Rediffusion Television | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 麗的電視有限公司 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 丽的电视有限公司 | ||||||||||||
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Rediffusion Television (RTV) was the first television station in Hong Kong, which became at its launch the first British colony and the first predominantly ethnically Chinese city to have television.[1] It began as a radio station in 1949 and became Asia Television on 24 September 1982.