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EDITING THE "HISTORY" SECTION OF TELEVISION IN HONG KONG
Hong Kong's television history began with the launch of Rediffusion Television (RTV) on 29 May 1957. RTV started off as a cable subscription service, but as Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), the territory's first free-to-air commercial station launching in November 19th, 1967 and colour television being introduced to the two channels between 1970 and 1973, television, especially TVB, has become more popular amongst the general public, and Rediffusion had to change to free-to-air at December 1st, 1973 in order to keep up.

A short-lived network, known as Commercial Television, opened in 1975, and operated for three years until its bankruptcy (see 1970s in Hong Kong). Since then, Rediffusion, later renamed as Asia Television (ATV) and TVB competed for viewership fiercely for the next 40 years, resulting in what is widely considered the golden age of Hong Kong Television.

Government-owned Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) (a radio broadcaster from 1949) starting making TV programmes in 1976 to be aired on TVB and ATV (which was mandatory until recently) and later on Cable Tv and Now TV, two paid television services which started broadcasting in 1993 and 2003 respectively.

Digital television has been introduced to Hong Kong in 2007, and both TVB and ATV opened several more channels, mostly in Cantonese. However, with multiple leadership changes and crises, ATV's viewership had only went downhill since then, especially after Wang Zheng, a mainland Chinese businessman entering and infiltrating ATV. Eventually, as program quality's rapid downfall and the company not paying their wages, the Executive Council decided not to renew ATV's broadcast licence at 2015, and all its channels closed at April 2, 2016. ATV later revived as an OTT service, but hasn't gotten widespread attention.

During the 2010s, 3 new digital companies started broadcasting: RTHK, who took over the analogue frequency of ATV and opened its own digital channels in 2014，HKTVE (owned by PCCW, the same company behind NowTV), commonly known as ViuTV started broadcasting in 2016, and Fantastic Television, under Cable TV, in 2017. These new television channels were especially promoted to the youth, beginning yet another viewership battle between TVB and (especially) ViuTV and Fantastic Television, whose flagship Cantonese channel was renamed to "HK Open TV" in 2018, and "HOY TV" four years later.

There was also an Internet television and VOD channel called Hong Kong Technology Venture (HKTV, owned by the City Telecom, which was renamed as the same name in 2013) which was launched in 2014 and can be viewed on smart TVs, set-top boxes, personal computers, smartphones, and tablet computers, but that didn't get a lot of attention either, closing in 2018.