TVB City
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TVB City is the headquarters of Television Broadcasts Limited
, located at 77 Chun Choi Street in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate
, near to Shaw Studios. TVB is by far the biggest tenant of the estate and the first service-providing company in there.
The city officially opened on January 1, 2005 and was constructed at a cost of HK$$2.2 billion. It was designed to cope with future development and expansion, especially for digital television
production.
TVB City has a building area of over 110,000 square metres, 30% more than that the old headquarters, TV City, at Clearwater Bay. The facilities includes a 11-storey broadcasting centre, workshops, a newsroom
, a satellite antennae farm
, two outdoor shooting sites and 22 production studios, of which "Studio 1" is one of the largest studio amongst all commercial television stations in Asia
.
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Television Broadcasts Limited
Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, is the second over-the-air commercial television station in Hong Kong. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967...
, located at 77 Chun Choi Street in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate
Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate
Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate is located in the southeast of the Tsueng Kwan O New Town, Sai Kung District in Hong Kong.-Location:...
, near to Shaw Studios. TVB is by far the biggest tenant of the estate and the first service-providing company in there.
The city officially opened on January 1, 2005 and was constructed at a cost of HK$$2.2 billion. It was designed to cope with future development and expansion, especially for digital television
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
production.
TVB City has a building area of over 110,000 square metres, 30% more than that the old headquarters, TV City, at Clearwater Bay. The facilities includes a 11-storey broadcasting centre, workshops, a newsroom
Newsroom
A newsroom is the place where journalists—reporters, editors, and producers, along with other staffers—work to gather news to be published in a newspaper or magazine or broadcast on television, cable or radio...
, a satellite antennae farm
Earth station
A ground station, earth station, or earth terminal is a terrestrial terminal station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft, and/or reception of radio waves from an astronomical radio source. Ground stations are located either on the surface of the Earth, or within Earth's...
, two outdoor shooting sites and 22 production studios, of which "Studio 1" is one of the largest studio amongst all commercial television stations in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
.
Facilities
- Outdoor Shooting Sites - features buildings for traditional Chinese town and generic early 20th Century Hong Kong settings
- Workshop Block
- Main Block - along with Studio Road, it is often used as generic office building/hotel scenes for TVB's modern dramas
- Variety Studio Block - used for shooting variety and specials
- Drama Studio Block - used for shooting drama shows
- Satellite Antenna Farm
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