8. Programme Genres

8.3 Sound Broadcasting

CRHK operated two FM Cantonese language services, viz. CR1 and CR2, and one AM English language service, AM 864. CR1 was largely an information channel targeting mature audience, providing news, current affairs, financial and personal view programmes. CR2 was mainly an entertainment channel featuring pop culture and music targeting young listeners. AM864 was primarily a music channel. CRHK launched in June 2008 a new software "Hong Kong ToolBar" at its website to enable computer users to listen to CR's sound broadcasting channels via Internet on a real-time basis. 

Metro operated two FM Cantonese language services, viz. Metro Finance and MetroInfo, and one AM English language service, viz. Metro Plus. Metro Finance provided real-time, market-moving news and information about financial markets around the world. MetroInfo provides music and entertainment programmes as well as programmes on lifestyle, health, market news and other information of interest to the public. Metro Plus was a music channel and it also provided programmes for ethnic groups like the Filipino, Indian and Indonesian communities in Hong Kong as well as the recent immigrants from Mainland China.

The new sound broadcaster, Wave Media, is required to launch one AM service within two years from grant of licence in November 2008.

RTHK, the public broadcaster in Hong Kong, operated seven radio channels, providing Cantonese, English and Putonghua services. It offered a variety of thematic channels ranging from information to general entertainment and culture. A list of channels of RTHK is at Figure 25.

Most of the programmes of the three stations were also broadcast live on their respective web sites 24 hours a day.