Hong Kong's biggest broadcaster TVB has received a flood of complaints against its new variety show for lampooning the city's leader and other prominent public figures, prompting one of the programme's stars to quit. Critics put off by the show said the troubled station should resist relying on "low comedy" in trying to win back lost viewers and advertisers. The.
Hong Kong, February 13 (ANI): Hong Kong public broadcaster has announced that it would no longer relay the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) programmes, shortly after China banned the British public broadcaster "within Chinese territory".
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War and Beauty, TVB has lost much of its former cultural influence.
Critics and stakeholders see an urgent need for the station to reinvent itself, or risk fading out of sight.
“TVB should think long and hard about how to reform itself to reconnect with or appeal to Hong Kong people,” said Grace Leung Lai-kuen, a lecturer at Chinese University’s school of journalism and communication.
“What do they want to watch and what do they care about? TVB needs to be sincere in addressing the needs of Hong Kong viewers or it will become irrelevant in Hong Kong.”