News At Seven-Thirty
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News At Seven-Thirty is the evening English
English language
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 and flagship national news programme broadcast Monday to Sunday at 7:30pm in Hong Kong by television channel TVB Pearl
TVB Pearl
TVB Pearl is one of the two free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being ATV World. It is owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, and together with its sister Cantonese language station TVB Jade, is broadcast from TVB City at 77...

. News At Seven-Thirty is also for free reviewing on TVB News
TVB News
TVB News , formally known as the News and Information Division , is the newsgathering arm of Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited...

' website. The programme first aired in TVB Pearl when it launched on November 19, 1967 and is the longest-running newscasts in Hong Kong with News at 6:30
News At 6:30
News at 6:30 , is the evening and flagship national news programme broadcast Monday to Sunday at 6:30pm in Hong Kong by television channel TVB Jade. This programme first aired in TVB Jade on November 19, 1967, with broadcasting time at 6:30pm...

 on its sister channel TVB Jade
TVB Jade
TVB Jade is a flagship TV channel in Hong Kong, established by Television Broadcasts Limited, and is one of the free-to-air Cantonese language television channels in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival ATV Home...

.

Broadcasting length

News At Seven-Thirty usually broadcasts for approximately 25 minutes, followed later by Weather Report and Earth Live (the latter produced by earthTV
EarthTV
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).

History

The first evening news bulletin was launched on November 19, 1967 - TVB Pearl
TVB Pearl
TVB Pearl is one of the two free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being ATV World. It is owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, and together with its sister Cantonese language station TVB Jade, is broadcast from TVB City at 77...

 aired at 7:00pm, and after changed news new time. In 1975, moved to 6:40pm and 8:45pm, 6:40pm in 5 minutes and 8:45pm in 25 minutes. In April 3, 1978, was cancelled at 6:40pm, the news moved back to the 7:00pm. In March 7, 1987, was moved to 7:30pm. In December 1, 1988, Monday to Friday the news moved to 7:15pm to 7:55pm, Saturday & Sunday second programmes, moved to 6:00pm and 9:00pm, 6:00pm in 15 minutes and 9:00pm in 30 minutes. In October 6, 1990, was cancelled on Saturday & Sunday at 6:00pm, the news moved back to the 7:15pm. In August 10, 1992, was moved back to the 7:10pm to 7:35pm. In May 31, 1993, was moved to 8:00pm to 8:30pm. In September 18, 1995, was moved back to the 7:30pm to 8:00pm, and now present.

News presenters

Different news presenters are appear on the show each day. The combination is usually one man and one woman. The male anchor also acts as a sports presenter (as opposed to having a separate sports presenter, like on TVB Jade's News at 6:30).

Present presenters

Male:
  • Chris Lincoln, Chris Gelken, Jameson Wong


Female:
  • Jenny Lam, Priscilla Ng
    Priscilla Ng
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    , Sonya Artero

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