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[[File:ATV_News_car_KZ7374_MY3241_20071229.jpg | thumb | right | alt=An ATV News car | An ATV News car]]
'''ATV News''' ({{zh|t=亞視新聞}}) was the newsgathering arm of [[Asia Television|ATV]] in [[Hong Kong]]. It provided news programmes to both its [[ATV Home]] and [[ATV World]].

On 6 July 2011, ATV News falsely reported the death of [[Jiang Zemin]], former [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]]. Wang Zheng, at that time rumoured to be a distant relative of Jiang, was believed to be the source. The Communications Authority fined ATV for HK$300,000 for the false news report, and later another HK$1&nbsp;million after concluding Wang Zheng had been unlawfully interfering with ATV's management. Wang's cousin [[James Shing Pan-yu]] was forced to quit his role as executive director.<ref name="SCMPWangZheng">{{cite news |last1=Chow |first1=Vivienne |date=29 March 2015 |title=Wong Ching, the leading man in ATV's sorry drama |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1750407/wong-ching-leading-man-atvs-sorry-drama |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924200100/http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1750407/wong-ching-leading-man-atvs-sorry-drama |archive-date=24 September 2015 |access-date=3 April 2015 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

As a consequence of ATV's chronic financial difficulties, most newsgathering staff were laid off on 6 February 2016. ATV was ordered on 20 February 2016 to restore production of Cantonese news until the end of the period of its broadcast licence on 1 April 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-04-01 |title=新聞背景：過不了60大壽的香港亞洲電視 |url=https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/china/2016/04/160401_profile_hongkong_atv |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=BBC News 中文 |language=zh-hant}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-04-01 |title=ATV staff lay blame for Hong Kong station's demise with mainland investor Wong Ching |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1932823/atv-staff-lay-blame-hong-kong-stations-demise |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref>

==Current affairs==
Besides producing daily news reports, ATV offered eight news programmes in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Its news programmes broadcast in Cantonese were:
* ''[[Decoding Current Affairs]]'' (時事解碼)
* ''[[Following Ad Hoc News]]'' (時事熱點追蹤)
* ''Investment Strategy'' (窩輪有法) 
* ''[[Mr. Tsang's Show]]'' (曾sir28騷)

Its two English-language news programmes were ''[[ATV Newsline]]'', a discussion show, and ''[[ATV Inside Story]]'', a topical magazine show.

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080224095511/http://www.hkatvnews.com/v3/index.html ATV News Home Page]

{{Chinese News Television}}
{{Television in the People's Republic of China}}

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[[Category:Mass media in Hong Kong]]
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