Broadcast Drive

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Broadcast Drive (廣播道) is a road in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. The road is notable as having played host to five broadcasting outlets in Hong Kong at one point in the 1970s, and the hill on which the road is located was known as Ng Toi Shan (五台山, lit. five-station hill) during that time. The five broadcasters were:

• Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), whose headquarters (Broadcasting House) was inaugurated in 1969
• Commercial Radio Hong Kong (CRHK)
• Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)
• Rediffusion Television (RTV), later renamed Asia Television Limited (ATV); and
• Commercial Television

The area became known as Four-station Hill (四台山) in 1978 following Commercial Television's collapse. Its studio building was acquired by RTHK for its television unit, and was reopened as Television House in 1986. TVB then moved its operations to the Clearwater Bay TV City in 1992, with RTHK, CRHK and ATV remaining on Broadcast Drive to this day. However, ATV and RTHK have both announced plans to move their operations to Tai Po and Tseung Kwan O respectively within the next few years.

The area is also a well known high end (though gradually aging) residential neighborhood, and is home to those mainly from professional and upper middle class backgrounds.

[edit] Trivia

• Broadcast Drive intersects two other roads with names related to broadcasting: Marconi Road (for Guglielmo Marconi) and Fessenden Road (for Reginald Fessenden).

• Ng Toi Shan is a reference to an existing Wutai Shan in Shanxi province which is a notable setting in Louis Cha's novels.