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 麗的呼聲
Type
Subsidiary
Country
British Hong Kong
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
Rediffusion Television
Traditional Chinese
麗的電視有限公司
Simplified Chinese
丽的电视有限公司
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Lì de diànshì yǒuxiàn gōngsī
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Laih dīk dihn sih yáuh haahn gūng sī
Jyutping
Lai6 dik1 din6 si6 jau5 haan6 gung1 si1
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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