Rediffusion Television
First television station in Hong Kong / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Hong Kong station. For the defunct ITV contractor in London, see Associated-Rediffusion. For Rediffusion in general, see Rediffusion. For its successor, see Asia Television.
For Indonesian television network known as RTV, see RTV (Indonesian TV network).
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.
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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; 41 years ago (1982-09-24) |
Language | English Cantonese |
Replaced by | Asia Television |
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Traditional Chinese | 麗的電視有限公司 | ||||||||||||
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