Hong Kong\u2019s
\nembattled Asia Television (ATV) has been shut down midnight last Friday, ending its 59 years of broadcasting service.
\nAfter broadcasting its final programme, a re-run of the 2013 Miss Asia Pageant, ATV bid farewell to its audience by showing a card on the screen at 11:59 p.m.
\nPeople went to ATV\u2019s headquarters in Tai Po on Friday to take pictures and witness the last moment of the broadcasting.
\nOn April 1, 2015, the Hong Kong Government decided not to renew ATV\u2019s free-to-air TV license
\nIts licence expired on April 1 as according to the law, a 12-month notice period was to be given for the non-renewal decision.
\nLaunched as Re-diffusion Television in 1957, ATV was a pioneer of entertainment in Hong Kong\u2019s broadcasting history.
\nThe station is said to have experienced its \u201cgolden era\u201d in 1980s.
\nHowever, in late 1990s, it was hit by a financial crisis after experiencing several ownership shifts.
\nIn early March, ATV\u2019s provisional liquidator Deloitte dismissed the remaining 400 employees as it was unable to reach an agreement with ATV\u2019s new investor, Si Rongbin.
\nJeff Wong, ATV\u2019s senior Public Affairs Manager, told the media that he believed the station will find alternative ways to operate, for example by providing internet TV services.
\n\u201cHowever, that will be subject to the decision of the broadcaster\u2019s investors,\u201d he said.
\nThe Public Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), which took over ATV\u2019s two analogue channels, launched a television broadcast at 12:00 p.m. Saturday after ATV ceased its signals.
\nThe Television Broadcast or TVB has left to be the only TV channel providing free-to-air programmes in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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