Forever Top (Asia) Limited () is a company based in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

founded by , the current head of Far East Consortium. The company initially applied for a

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

television

broadcast license A broadcast license is a type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes. The licenses generally include restrictions, which va ...

under the name of New Asia Network (NAN; ). The company later withdrew the application, and acquired

I-Cable Communications i-Cable Communications Limited () is a Hong Kong telecommunications company owned by Forever Top (Asia) Limited, which acquired the company from The Wharf Group in 2017. Overview Founded in 1999, the company provides broadband internet and ...

Background

David Chiu is a son of Deacon Chiu Te-ken, the founder of Far East Consortium. Deacon Chiu bought

Rediffusion Television Rediffusion Television (, RTV) was a defunct television station in Hong Kong. It was the city's first broadcaster and the first in any British colony or majority-Chinese city.Kitley, Philip. 003(2003). ''Television, Regulation and Civil Soci ...

(RTV) in 1982 and renamed it

Asia Television Asia Television Limited (, also known as ATV) is a digital media and broadcasting company in Hong Kong. Established as the first television service in Hong Kong as Rediffusion Television () on 29 May 1957, it shifted to terrestrial televis ...

(ATV) before he sold the broadcaster in 1989. Forever Top's free-to-air television bid, New Asia Network, was named in memory of ATV.

New Asia Network

In 2015, Forever Top applied for a free-to-air television broadcast license under the name of New Asia Network. One of the company's goals was to acquire the assets of ATV, whose license would be revoked after 1 April 2016. Forever Top later withdrew the application and in 2017, the company acquired

, the parent company of Hong Kong Cable Television and Fantastic Television.

i-Cable Communications

References

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