Hong Kong Reporter
Hong Kong Reporter (Chinese: 香港人網; previously known as Hong Kong People Reporter) is an Internet radio station and forum based in Hong Kong. Established in 2008, the station mainly focuses on live talk radio broadcasting although it has since expanded to include other types of programming. On 22 March 2013, the owner Stephen Shiu announced that Hong Kong Reporter would stop broadcasting at the end of March.[1]
The online broadcaster began as People's Station in 2004 after the two outspoken pro-democratic talk hosts Wong Yuk-man and Albert Cheng were fired by the Commercial Radio Hong Kong. It changed its name into Hong Kong Reporter in 2005 and merged with the then chairman of the League of Social Democrats, Wong Yuk-man's internet radio MyRadio in 2008.[2] In 2010, the two groups split but remained close relation.
It is closely affiliated with the radical democratic party League of Social Democrats before Wong Yuk-man quit and formed People Power. It was seen as a key platform for young radical voices and helped to mobilise the supporters of People Power.[1] The station's founder, Stephen Shiu, having threatened to take the station offline if at least three People Power candidates were not elected in the 2012 Legco elections.[3] Among the People Power candidates elected was the station's CEO, Raymond Chan Chi-chuen. The station has also been used to direct protesters in the 1 July marches.[4]
On 22 March 2013, Stephen Shiu said during his ShiuShiu Podcast that the station would not broadcast any new shows from March 31. It would also stop funding political groups, including People Power and its affiliate, the Proletariat Political Institute.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Pro-democracy station pulls the plug". SCMP. 23 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ↑ 香港電台《議事論事》(節錄) - 訪問香港人網創辦人蕭若元
- ↑ "Radio rebels". The Economist 403 (8791): 48. 30 June 2012.
- ↑ Fung, Fanny W. Y.; Cheung, Simpson (13 July 2011). "Online radio to rally protest". South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). p. 1.