Television Broadcasts Ltd.
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| Traded as | : 0511,OTC Pink: |
| Industry | Television broadcasting |
| Founded | 19 November 1967 in Broadcast Drive, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Headquarters | 77 Chun Choi Street Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, New Territories, Hong Kong |
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Key people
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Mona Fong (Executive chairman), Norman Leung (Executive Deputy chairman) |
| Products | TVB Jade, TVB Pearl, TVBI, TVB Network Vision, TVBS, TVB.com, TVB Publishing, etc. |
| Revenue | $4.33 billion HK dollars (2007) |
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Number of employees
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4532 (2007) |
| Website | www.TVB.com |
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| Traditional Chinese | 電視廣播有限公司 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | dinh sih gwóng bo yauh haahn gūng sī |
| Jyutping | din6 si6 gwong2 bo3 yau5 haan6 gung1 si1 |
Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, was founded as the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. TVB runs five free-to-air television channels in Hong Kong, and is one of two free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasters in Hong Kong, and one of the largest commercial Chinese programme producers in the world. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967. It has a staff of about 4,500. Its commercial rival for free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasts is Asia Television (ATV), whilst the government-owned Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) produces television programmes, but does not itself broadcast them.
When TVB first began broadcasting, to distinguish it from the cable television broadcaster, Rediffusion Television, it was commonly known as "Wireless Television" (無綫電視 Cantonese: mou4 sin3 din6 si6) in Chinese in reference to it being the first wireless television station. It is still usually referred to with that name, although there is more than one terrestrial television station now. The company's previous chairman was Sir Run Run Shaw.
TVB's headquarters (Hong Kong TVB City) is Asia's largest commercial television production centre.
TVB currently operates five free channels in Hong Kong: TVB Jade (Cantonese) and TVB Pearl (English) are TVB's flagship television channels. Under the digital terrestrial television platform, which formally commenced on 31 December 2007, J2 and iNEWS are new channels launched with standard definition, while J5 is Hong Kong's first 24-hour broadcasting free channel in high definition. TVB relaunched its pay-tv service in 2014 under a new brand, changing the name from TVB Pay Vision to TVB Network Vision. TVB Network Vision's channel are carried by PCCW NowTV service because of a carriage agreement dating from the pay-TV network's inception. Network Vision is run by veteran TVB executive, Felix To.
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