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Hong Kong media-related links Overview
HONG KONG 2004 - Communications, the Media and Information Technology
www.info.gov.hk/yearbook/2004/en/17_02.htm Hong Kong has less than 7 million residents, yet . . . Hong Kong's mass media at the end of 2004 included 46 daily newspapers, a number of electronic newspapers, 799 periodicals, two domestic free television programme service licensees, three domestic pay television programme service licensees, 13 non-domestic television programme service licensees, one government-funded public service broadcaster, and two sound broadcasting licensees. Category:Hong Kong media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hong_Kong_media Wikipedia's Hong Kong Media page is a good starting point.
Although based at Bowling Green State University, this set of links has a strong China focus. International Advertising Resource Center, updated every two months and created since 1996, collects literature and information sources useful to international advertising researchers and practitioners. Hong Kong, China media list - Hong Kong newspapers, magazines and TV stations, Hong Kong media conta
www.mondotimes.com/1/world/cn/192/4538 Links to various HK media.
China, Hongkong: 22 newspapers and other news sources, Kidon Media-Link
www.kidon.com/media-link/hk.php Mostly news Cantonese
English and Chinese.
The free newspapers and magazines are eager to have their circulation figures audited by the Hong Kong Audit Bureau of Circulations.  Census and Statistics Department - Hong Kong Statistics
www.censtatd.gov.hk/hong_kong_statistics/index.jsp Background stats (mostly economic, few social indicators) Next Media Limited ("Next Media") is Hong Kong's largest publicly listed Chinese-language print media company. It publishes, most famously, Apple Daily, the second most popular newspaper in HK. Newspapers
HONG KONG 2004 - Communications, the Media and Information Technology
www.info.gov.hk/yearbook/2004/en/17_02.htm Since this list was published in 2004, the Hong Kong newspaper market has seen the launch of several new free newspapers. In total 1.5m free newspapers are handed out every morning to HK commuters.
List of newspapers in Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers_of_Hong_Kong List of Hong Kong newspapers
Newspapers in English
AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: New free newspaper sets sights on young in battle with Metro
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=26159 The city's latest free newspaper is set to hit the streets with a youthful title and easy-to-read content to lure the city's young people, who have been increasingly estranged from reading news. AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: Free dailies take a bite of broadsheets' ad pie
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parent... established newspapers are taking a hit in revenue from newer, free publications Headline Daily, am730, and the Metro FT.com / Asia-Pacific / China - HK mulls Richard Li’s newspaper aspirations
news.ft.com/cms/s/4d5770e2-82bd-11da-ac1f-0000779e... As a man who made his name in the business of television broadcasting, reports that Richard Li, son of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest man, is considering buying a newspaper – the Hong Kong Economic Journal (HKEJ) – are hardly surprising. Magazines
Links to many magazines circulated (but not necessarily published) in Hong Kong
Free to Air Television
94% watch TV 3 hours a day. Less than 4% have used a mobile device to watch video.
OFTA, Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong
www.ofta.gov.hk/en/broadcast/tv-free-whatisit.html
TVB Jade has 75% of the prime time audience
ATV Home has 18% of the prime time audience OFTA, Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong
www.ofta.gov.hk/en/broadcast/dtt_whatisit.html
Pay TV
OFTA, Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong
www.ofta.gov.hk/en/broadcast/tv-pay-whatisit.html Pay TV is delivered by satellite, cable, and broadband. Pay TV services refer to the television programme services which are available for reception by those who subscribe to it. Very often, these recipients are domestic households or hotel industry. Domestic pay TV service is primarily targeted at Hong Kong and is currently provided by Hong Kong Cable Television Limited, Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting Limited and PCCW VOD Limited. Satellite
Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting rebranded itself, consistent with its increasing reliance on distribution channels other than satellite. May 3, 2006, Hong Kong -- TVB PAY VISION Limited announced that with effect from April 28, 2006, the name of the Company has been changed from “Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting Limited 銀河衛星廣播有限公司” to “TVB PAY VISION Limited 無綫收費電視有限公司”. TVP PAY VISION - originally satellite (original company name - Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting); added broadband distribution via Hutchison; recently added broadband distribution via PCCW now TV.
Cable TV
i-CABLE offers pay TV (http://www.cabletv.com.hk) via coaxial cable. Its second main business unit is delivering broadband internet access. IPTV - internet protocol television
PCCW's now TV uses ADSL to deliver IPTV.
informitv - PCCW and Star explore IPTV in new Asian markets
informitv.com/articles/2006/05/20/pccwandstar/
Internet
Clearly, Hong Kong residents spend most of their time on sites not located in Hong Kong.
Online news. Way, way behind newspapers and television. |
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