2. The Broadcasting Landscape

2.1 Number of Licensees 2.2 Number of Channels
2.3 Number of Broadcast Hours 2.4 Number of Hours of Station Productions

2.4 Number of Hours of Station Productions

For the year 2007-08, ATV and TVB produced a total of 13 344 hours (39%) of television programmes on their analogue channels, representing an increase of 10% over 2007, and
27 563 hours on the digital channels8. Of the 293 channels provided by the domestic pay television programme service licensees, 61 (20.8%) were station-produced, representing an increase of 13% over the previous year. As for sound broadcasting, with the exception of RTHK Radio 6 relaying BBC World Service, the other 12 radio channels were produced by the broadcasters.

Figure 6: Proportion of Station Productions


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Figure 7: Weekly Hours of Station Productions of Licensees


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8

ATV's CCTV 4 SDTV channel was a direct re-transmission of the satellite feed CCTV 4 channel.

 
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