TVB Jade is a flagship TV channel in
Hong Kong, established by
Television Broadcasts Limited, and is one of the free-to-air
Hong Kong Cantonese television channels in
Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival
ATV Home. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, with a wide range of entertainment-led programming, such as comedy,
anime, variety shows, popular drama, and
chat shows. Along with its sister
Hong Kong English station,
TVB Pearl, TVB Jade is broadcast from
TVB City at 77 Chun Choi Street in
Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in
Tseung Kwan O, in the
Sai Kung District, which is in the Eastern region of
Hong Kong's
New Territories. The channel first started broadcasting on 19 November 1967, with most of the programmes in
Cantonese. For over 15 years, some programmes have been broadcast simultaneously in
Mandarin,
English and other foreign languages, by using the stereo
NICAM system in analogue version, or multiple AC-3 streams in digital version. Most of TVB Jade's programmes are widely distributed around the world, and as can be seen in the following section, it is the overwhelmingly most popular television channel in
Hong Kong.