Some of the early contents included plays, stories, concerts and Cantonese operas.
[2] The charge was considered expensive, at a time when the average worker in Hong Kong earned HK$100 per month.
[3] Hong Kong tea shops again provided an outlet for the broadcasts to the working class who could not afford the subscription fees.
When competitor TVB made its first free-to-air broadcast on 19 November 1967, RTV had 67,000 subscribers.
It was renamed Rediffusion Television Limited (RTV; 麗的電視有限公司) on 1 June 1973 when it was granted its free-to-air terrestrial broadcasting license.