Radio Television Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR) Logo History 1989-Present

Background: Radio Television Hong Kong is a public broadcasting service in Hong Kong. GOW, the predecessor to RTHK, was established in 1928 as the first broadcasting service in Hong Kong. As a government department under the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of the Hong Kong Government that is directly supported by annual government funding, RTHK's educational, entertainment, and public affairs programs are broadcast on its eight radio channels and four television channels, as well as commercial television channels.

The British Hong Kong Government launched its first radio broadcasting station, known as "GOW", on 20 June 1928, with a starting staff of only six people. Several name changes occurred over the next few years, and it eventually became known as "RHK" in 1948. By 1969, RHK moved its headquarters to new purpose-built studios located at Broadcasting House in Kowloon Tong.

In 1976, the station's name was changed to "Radio Television Hong Kong" to reflect its new involvement in television program production. In the same year, it began to produce educational television programs for schools after absorbing the previously independent Educational Television, RTHK headquarters moved across the road to the former Commercial Television studios, which were renamed Television House by 1986. The station's first news and financial news channel, Radio 7, was established in November 1989.

In December 1994, RTHK launched its website and made its television productions, as well as content from its seven radio channels, available online. The website provided live broadcasts as well as a twelve-month archive. The website, presented in English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, initially offered free news via email three times per day, as well as online content.

Since 2020, RTHK programs are no longer broadcast on TVB channels. In February 2021 it announced it would cease entirely relaying BBC World Service radio broadcasts following Chinese government criticism of the BBC. Leung Ka-wing, Director of Broadcasting, said it was his decision to follow Beijing's lead in shutting off BBC, and that "Hong Kong is part of China and Radio Television Hong Kong is a department of the HKSAR Government. The decision has nothing to do with news operations."

Prior to 1989, the station had no on-screen idents.

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