ATV News

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ATV News
亞視新聞

Country	Hong Kong
Broadcast area	Regional
Headquarters	Hong Kong
Ownership
Owner	Asia Television
History
Launched	May 29, 1957; 67 years ago (1957-05-29)
Closed	April 1, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-04-01)
Links
Website	www.hkatvnews.com

ATV News
Traditional Chinese	亞視新聞
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yàshì Xīnwén Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization A sih sān mán Jyutping A3 si6 san1 man2

ATV News (Chinese: 亞視新聞) was the newsgathering arm of ATV in Hong Kong. It provided news programmes to both its ATV Home and ATV World.

On 6 July 2011, ATV News falsely reported the death of Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Wang Zheng, at that time rumoured to be a distant relative of Jiang, was believed to be the source. The Communications Authority fined ATV for HK$300,000 for the false news report, and later another HK$1 million after concluding Wang Zheng had been unlawfully interfering with ATV's management. Wang's cousin James Shing Pan-yu was forced to quit his role as executive director.^[1]

As a consequence of ATV's chronic financial difficulties, most newsgathering staff were laid off on 6 February 2016. ATV was ordered on 20 February 2016 to restore production of Cantonese news until the end of the period of its broadcast licence on 1 April 2016.^[2][3]

Besides producing daily news reports, ATV offered eight news programmes in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Its news programmes broadcast in Cantonese were:

• Decoding Current Affairs (時事解碼)
• Following Ad Hoc News (時事熱點追蹤)
• Investment Strategy (窩輪有法)
• Mr. Tsang's Show (曾sir28騷)

Its two English-language news programmes were ATV Newsline, a discussion show, and ATV Inside Story, a topical magazine show.

• ATV News Home Page