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Jadeworld (翡翠互動電視)

Country	Australia
Programming
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	TVB Australia, under TVB
History
Launched	13 August 1998
Closed	31 July 2017 (replaced by OTT TV Service)
Links
Website	tvb.com.au

TVB Jadeworld was a broadcasting station based in Sydney, Australia that caters for the Chinese community in Australia. It currently consists of 16 channels, with many programs relayed from TVB operations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

As of 31 July 2017, the satellite broadcast service of those channels was ceased and replaced by the service by TVB Anywhere.

Current channel line-up

History

Jadeworld began as JEDi (Jade Entertainment Digital Interactive) in 2000, broadcasting only 8 channels-

CCTV-4 was added in 2000, while CNBC Asia was taken off the channels in 2001.
JET-TV was offered to certain plan subscribers from until 2005.
The addition of Dragon TV, Hunan TV, Chongqing TV and Phoenix TV in 2006-07 caters for subscribers of Mainland descent.

In May 2017, Jadeworld reduced to 26 channels.

See also

• Subscription television in Australia

References

1. Changing of the transmission method of TV signal (Traditional Chinese), TVB Australia, 5 May 2017 (accessed 8 March 2018)

External links

• Australian subscription television services
• Defunct television channels in Australia
• TVB channels
• Television channels and stations established in 1998
• Chinese-Australian culture
• Overseas Chinese organisations
• Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
• Ethnic mass media in Australia