Hong Kong TV Channels Follow China and Cancel Oscar Broadcast Plans
Better Days,” the territory’s leading free-to-air TV network Television Broadcasts (TVB) will be dropping television coverage of the Oscars ceremony.The network Monday confirmed that it did not have rights to broadcast the show this year. “It was purely a commercial decision,” said a company spokesman. TVB has carried the show every year since 1969 on its Pearl English-language channel.Other television stations in the territory, including PCCW’s pay-TV channel NowTV and its free-to-air channel ViuTV told Variety that they had not picked up the rights in TVB’s place.