Since midnight yesterday, most of HanoiTV (and Radio) operations have been halted. This mean that out of all services that they’re operating (90FM, 96FM, Hanoi 1, Hanoi 2, On365FM), only 90FM and 96FM is operating. No reasons are given and the shutdown happened without any notice nor staff even informed.
This is a slide that is currently seen on Hanoi 2 as it’s off air without notice - “Hanoi 2 temporarily interrupt (transmission) for restructure and reorganization. We hope you understand.”
UPDATE 22/9
UPDATE 2: 4/10
I don’t understand how anyone thought this merger of the country’s two biggest commercial networks and broadcasting groups would have been approved. In Australian terms, this is the equivalent of a merger between Seven and Nine. Short of one of the networks going bankrupt, no regulator would allow that to go forward.
A closer comparison is more like that there’s a strong chance that the buyer of a privatised Channel 4 in the UK would be ITV - in a diverse media market consolidation like that isn’t too bad - in a multichannel environment it’s much different to where it is 2 of 5 or 6 terrestrial channels like it would have been 20-30 years back.
In Australia it’s a bit different as television never moved to that multi-channel model - so a Seven/Nine merger or something would be a drastic decrease in competition, even now with the lower overall share of broadcast TV in the media landscape.
Good point, but TF1 and M6 each own a number of free-to-air terrestrial (TNT) channels. The M6 Group includes M6 itself, W9 (get it?), Gulli, 6ter, and Paris Première, while the TF1 Group includes TF1 itself, LCI, TMC, TF1 Séries Films, and TFX. The proposed merger would leave Canal+ as the only major national channel group.
Hong Kong FTA station Open TV relaunched this morning as Hoy TV (“hoy” is the Cantonese translation of the word “open”).
Old logo:
Hoy TV and sister pay-TV network i-Cable have secured exclusive local broadcast rights to the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, postponed to September next year to COVID.
found this whilst browsing youtube.
best to watch with captions on, but its an old soviet russian tv sign off
^ This is a multichannel of China Central Television, focusing on science and education. It is similar to Discovery Channel or Smithsonian Channel.
Except it’s probably not quite so factual…
I’m sure the irony is completely lost on the Chinese Communist Party having their station called “CCTV”… or maybe not. Who is really watching whom?
Meaning they can do it on a whim?
Hong Kong’s oldest pay-TV service Cable TV announced this afternoon that it would cease broadcasting on May 31 this year. However, the Cable News brand would be retained, while its parent company would concentrate all its resources on its three existing FTA channels including two under the HOY TV brand.
Cable TV was incorporated on June 30, 1993 and officially began transmission on October 31 same year, offering a package of over 100 channels, 54 of which are directly operated by the company. Its current pay TV licence was supposed to expire on May 31, 2029.
Interesting to note that Cable TV had been bleeding for over a decade - and sports rights not being exclusive with them didn’t help (the 2014 World Cup was snatched by TVB, 2018 originally to LeSports then ViuTV/NowTV combo, and the latter pair again in 2022; the Premier League is on the duo as well).
Ironically TVB, now commonly known to be more stuffy and outdated station in the city, was actually the first to dip out of the pay TV game back in 2017.