Student Magazine Folds After 74 Years
A storied student magazine at a Hong Kong university has closed, the latest sign of shrinking space for independent campus journalism and political expression.
HOY TV
HOY TV (開電視), operated by i-CABLE HOY Limited under parent company i-Cable Communications Limited, is a free-to-air Cantonese-language television channel in Hong Kong. The channel began broadcasting on May 14, 2017, under the name Fantastic TV Chinese Channel, later renamed Hong Kong Open TV and then HOY TV in 2022. New World Development chairman Henry Cheng Kar-shun took control of i-Cable Communications in 2021, paying HK$316.4 million to acquire a majority stake in the company’s controlling shareholder, Forever Top (Asia) Limited. In 2023, i-Cable surrendered its pay-television license and shifted its business to free-to-air broadcasting, around the same period Hong Kong’s Communications Authority introduced new licensing rules requiring HOY TV and other free-to-air broadcasters to air at least 30 minutes of national education and national security law content weekly. HOY TV has also participated in the Hong Kong Police Force’s national security messaging efforts as one of three broadcasters that rebroadcast the force’s “Offbeat 360” video series.
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