TVB Pearl

TVB Pearl
TVB Pearl
Launched	19 November 1967
Owned by	Television Broadcasts Limited
Picture format	Analog:4:3 (SDTV) Digital:16:9 (HDTV)
Audience share	75%
Country	Hong Kong
Language	English
Broadcast area	Hong Kong Macau and parts of Guangdong Province
Website	pearl.tvb.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Hong Kong analogue	Variable by district
Hong Kong digital	Channel 84 (HD)
Satellite
Astro (Malaysia)	Channel 740 (HD)

TVB Pearl (Chinese: 無綫電視 明珠台) is owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, and together with its sister Cantonese language station TVB Jade, is broadcast from TVB City at 77 Chun Choi Street in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in Tseung Kwan O, in the Sai Kung District, which is in the Eastern region of Hong Kong's New Territories.

Apart from the use of English rather than Cantonese, TVB Pearl's daytime output differs from TVB Jade's in providing more serious programming, such as documentaries and news, and during peak viewing time it is much more reliant on overseas-made TV series and films. Occasionally, TVB Pearl also shows programmes in other languages (but usually well outside peak viewing time), including Mandarin, Japanese and Korean. Established on 19 November 1967, TVB Pearl broadcasts free of charge to over 2.1 million households in Hong Kong. The channel is operated by Television Broadcasts Limited or TVB, along with its sister channel TVB Jade. In 1991, TVB Pearl began to broadcast in NICAM, a digital audio modulation system that provides a facility for stereo or bilingual or trilingual audio transmission. (For the digital counterpart, multiple AC-3 streams are transmitted for the same purpose.) With a compatible television, the viewer can receive audio in their choice of language; typically, English and Cantonese. Chinese subtitles are available on most programmes after 18:20.

The transmission of TVB Pearl digital TV channel have been upgraded from SDTV to HDTV video format on 28 October 2012 at 02:50.

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