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2. The Broadcasting Landscape
2.1 Number of Licensees2.2 Number of Channels
2.3 Number of Broadcast Hours2.4 Number of Hours of Station Productions

2.1 Number of Licensees

2.1.1 Television Programme Services

As at August 2007, the total number of domestic free, domestic pay and non-domestic television programme service licensees was 19.

The number of domestic free television programme service licensees remained at two, viz. Asia Television Limited (ATV) and Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), whilst the number of domestic pay television programme service licensees remained at three, viz. HKCTV, PCCW Media and TVB Pay Vision.

The number of non-domestic television programme service licensees remained at 14. The number of other licensable television programme service licensees providing television programme services in Hong Kong decreased from 25 to 24, as Starvision Hong Kong Limited decided not to renew its licence upon expiry. Altogether they provided services to 82 hotels.

2.1.2 Sound Broadcasting Services

The number of sound broadcasting licensees remained at two, namely Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting Company Limited (CRHK) and Metro Broadcast Corporation Limited (Metro).

Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), a Government department, is the public broadcaster in Hong Kong. In addition to radio broadcasting, RTHK also produced television programmes for broadcast by the domestic free and domestic pay television programme service licensees.

Figure 2 :   Television and Radio Licensees in Hong Kong3

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3 Excluding Other Licensable Television Programme Service (Hotel) licensees

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