Hong Kong Technology Venture

Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited
香港科技探索有限公司
Company type	Public
Traded as	SEHK: 1137
Industry	e-Commerce; (formerly broadcasting)
Founded	19 May 1992
Headquarters	HKTV Multimedia and Ecommerce Centre,; 1 Chun Cheong Street,; Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, Tseung Kwan O
Area served	Hong Kong
Key people	Ricky Wong
Services	HKTVMall
Website	www.hktv.com.hk; www.hktvmall.com

Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited (HKTV, Chinese: 香港科技探索有限公司) is a Hong Kong-based technology company primarily known for its e-commerce platform and once had plans to become a television station. HKTV currently provides an over-the-top shopping and entertainment ("shoppertainment") platform named HKTVMall.^[2]

Logo of its e-commerce platform – HKTVmall.

In 2009, HKTV (then-City Telecom) applied for domestic free-to-air television programme service licence, but was rejected by the Hong Kong government in October 2013.^[3] Later, HKTV acquired a mobile TV licence and planned to launch the first 2 channels but this plan was foiled again. It commenced live and video on demand broadcasting through internet on 19 November 2014, while refiling an application for a free-to-air licence. HKTV had fought a series of legal battles against the government, until it withdrew its application for free-to-air licence and surrendered its mobile television licenses to the Communications Authority in March 2018.^[4]

On 13 July 2021, the company changed its name from Hong Kong Television Network to Hong Kong Technology Venture.^[5]

^ "Company Profile". HKTV. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^ Chow, Vivienne (1 November 2014). "HKTV dramas to be screened first in Malaysia". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
^ PCCW, i-Cable awarded free TV licenses, Ricky Wong draws a blank
^ "After 8-year fight, HKTV to abandon hopes for gov't TV licence to focus on online shopping | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ "CHANGE OF COMPANY NAME AND CHANGE OF STOCK SHORT NAMES" (PDF). HKTV. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

[companyprofile-1] "Company Profile". HKTV. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

[2] Chow, Vivienne (1 November 2014). "HKTV dramas to be screened first in Malaysia". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

[3] PCCW, i-Cable awarded free TV licenses, Ricky Wong draws a blank

[4] "After 8-year fight, HKTV to abandon hopes for gov't TV licence to focus on online shopping | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

[5] "CHANGE OF COMPANY NAME AND CHANGE OF STOCK SHORT NAMES" (PDF). HKTV. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

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