List of television stations in Hong Kong


There are four active free-to-air television networks in Hong Kong.
Of the four networks, only TVB, HKTVE and FTV operate English language channels.
There are also a number of cable, premium, and subscription television services. Currently, there is not any free-to-air television licence applicant.
Since 2007, both free-to-air television broadcasters in Hong Kong have been allocated extra frequency bands and bandwidth to provide additional digital broadcasts over and above that needed to provide simultaneous digital and analogue broadcasting of the four original multi frequency free-to-air channels. Digital broadcasts began on 31 December 2007. Analogue broadcasts were originally slated to end in 2012, but in 2011 was deferred to 2015, and then in 2014 deferred again to 2020.

Free-to-air television licencees

Channels currently on-air

Ch № Name Name Channel contentPrimary languagePicture FormatTransmissionLaunch Date Launch Date Analogue Switchoff DateLicensee
31RTHK TV 31
RTHK TV 31A 		港台電視31
港台電視31A 		RTHK's main channel.CantoneseHDTV
SDTV 		Terrestrial2 April 201613 January 2014
1 December 2020RTHK
32RTHK TV 32港台電視32A live feed of Legislative Council meetings every Wednesday and other important press conferences or events.CantoneseHDTVTerrestrial13 January 2014
RTHK
33RTHK TV 33
RTHK TV 33A 		港台電視33
港台電視33A 		Simulcast of the Hong Kong version of CCTV-1 HDPutonghuaHDTV
SDTV 		Terrestrial2 April 201613 January 2014
1 December 2020RTHK
76Hong Kong International Business Channel香港國際財經台Fantastic TV's business news channelEnglishHDTV
SDTV 		Hybrid fibre-coaxial and Cable30 July 2018FTV
77Hong Kong Open TV香港開電視Fantastic TV's general entertainment channel.CantoneseHDTV
SDTV 		Hybrid fibre-coaxial and Cable14 May 201714 May 2017FTV
81TVB Jade無線電視翡翠台TVB's main general entertainment channel.CantoneseHDTV
SDTV 		Terrestrial19 November 196731 December 20071 December 2020TVB
82TVB J2A youth-oriented entertainment channel.CantoneseHDTVTerrestrial28 January 2008TVB
TVB News Channel無線新聞台A 24-hour news channel.CantoneseHDTVTerrestrial15 August 2017TVB
84TVB Pearl無線電視明珠台A general entertainment channel broadcasting mainly in English.EnglishHDTV
SDTV 		Terrestrial19 November 196731 December 20071 December 2020TVB
85TVB Finance & Information Channel無綫財經·資訊台A 24-hour free high definition business news channel in Hong Kong.CantoneseHDTVTerrestrial15 August 2017TVB
96A general entertainment channel broadcasting in mainly in English.EnglishHDTVTerrestrial and IPTV31 March 2017HKTVE
99ViuTVHKTVE's general entertainment channel.CantoneseHDTVTerrestrial and IPTV2 April 2016
6 April 2016 		HKTVE

Defunct channels

Additional channels

Operative services

Hong Kong uses the same Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast standard as Macau and Guangdong and, because of signal overspill, viewers in Hong Kong can receive and watch all free to air channels from these areas without much difficulty.
However, because of licensing and intellectual property reasons, except for the four local free-to-air channels and CCTV-1, a subsidiary of China Central Television, viewers outside of certain confines
are not legally allowed to watch these channels.
Residential subscribers to cable premium and subscription services are free to use these services within certain confines, usually within their own homes, and under the terms and conditions of their service provider. Other contracts deal with the provision of services to non-domestic properties, e.g. premium sport content to bars.

On-demand stations