ViuTVsix is a

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television channel in

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operated by

HK Television Entertainment HK Television Entertainment Company Limited (, or HKTVE) is a television service operator in Hong Kong operated by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li's PCCW, through its subsidiary PCCW Media, which also owns an IPTV platform, Now TV and opera ...

(HKTVE), whose parent company,

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, also operates

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platform

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and media streaming service Viu. The channel offers 17 hours of English programming a day including news and public affairs, lifestyle shows, foreign television series, and documentaries. Unlike HKTVE's main channel ViuTV, its online streaming feed isn't available daily, because of the copyright issue. While the feed is only available for limited times only such as when there are live music and sports events.

History

Pre-launch

In 2015, HKTVE was awarded a 12-year free-to-air television broadcast license by the

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. Under the regulation of the license, the company must have an English-speaking channel with 16-hour of programming by 31 March 2017. Until the launch, the channel was originally planned to have 17 hours of programming a day under the format of

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. On 11 October 2016, The channel name ViuTVsix is revealed and announced the launch date, 31 March 2017, on their 2017 programme preview ''ViuTV 2017''.

Programming

ViuTVsix, as a general entertainment channel airing 17 hours of a wide variety of programmes from to . It airs news, imported television series, factual television and documentary (some programs were bought from

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and other production unit). Along with some live sports and music events, such as

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and

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Children's programming

They're imported cartoons mostly from

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Kids and Family (now

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) and Allspark(now

) with additional shows from non-english speaking countries or online steaming platforms such as '' Lost in Oz'', and ''The Fixies''.

News, politics and finance

From launch to 2020, Any news bulletin on ViuTVsix wasn't produced by Now TV's news division, Instead, its main newscast ''

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'' and talk show ''Weekly Re-Viu'' were produced

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. As of 2020, ViuTV News and Weekly Re-Viu are produced by its own news division as the decline of its cooperation with Reuters. ViuTVsix also relays live newscast from the international news broadcasters around the world, such as

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, CNN (Until 2019 onwards),

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, and

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, with ABC's

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''. From 2019 to 2020, ''24K Finance'', the only Mandarin Chinese-speaking live financial program, was produced and aired during Hong Kong Stock Trading Days.

References

External links

* {{PCCW Television channels and stations established in 2017 English-language television stations 2017 establishments in Hong Kong Television stations in Hong Kong