List of television stations in Hong Kong

There are four active free-to-air television networks and one remaining licensed pay television network in Hong Kong. There is also a number of online subscription television services.

Currently, there are no new applicants for free-to-air or pay-tv licences.

In 2007, free-to-air television broadcasters in Hong Kong were allocated extra frequency bands and bandwidth to provide additional digital broadcasts over and above that needed to provide simultaneous digital and analogue broadcasting of the four original multi frequency free-to-air channels. Digital terrestrial broadcasts began on 31 December 2007. Analogue terrestrial television ended in 2020.

In operation

 * Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB; 無綫電視)
 * Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK; 港台電視)
 * HK Television Entertainment (HKTVE; 香港電視娛樂)
 * Fantastic Television Limited (FTV; 奇妙電視)

Former licensees

 * Asia Television (ATV; 亞洲電視. Non-renewal announced in 2015. Ceased operation in 2016)
 * Commercial Television (CTV; 佳藝電視. Ceased operation in 1978)

Former licence applicants

 * New Asia Network (NAN; 新亞電視台), parent company Forever Top (Asia) Limited abandoned the application, following its acquisition of Cable TV Hong Kong and its subsidiary, Fantastic Television, which is a free television provider.
 * Phoenix Hong Kong Television (PHKTV, 鳳凰香港電視), parent company Phoenix Television announced its decision to rescind the application on 18 August 2017.
 * Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV; 香港電視網絡) – 2nd time applicant. First application was rejected in 2013. Mobile television licence that restricts in-home viewing granted in 2017. Gave up the application in 2018.

In operation

 * Now TV

Former licensees

 * Cable TV Hong Kong
 * TVB Network Vision

Operative services
Hong Kong uses the same Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast (DMB-T/H) standard as Macau and Guangdong and, because of signal overspill, viewers in Hong Kong can receive and watch all free to air channels from these areas without much difficulty.

However, because of licensing and intellectual property reasons, except for the four local free-to-air networks and CCTV-1, a subsidiary of China Central Television (CCTV), viewers outside of certain confines are not legally allowed to watch these channels.

Residential subscribers to cable premium and subscription services are free to use these services within certain confines, usually within their own homes, and under the terms and conditions of their service provider. Other contracts deal with the provision of services to non-domestic properties, e.g. premium sport content to bars.