Future of HK media landscape / Mental Health survey on children and adolescent

On Thursday’s Backchat, we’re talking about the changing landscape of Hong Kong’s media industry.

Earlier this week, TVB announced it’ll lay off more than 300 people as part of a restructuring plan that'll merge two free-to-air channels to create one that’s more focused on a younger audience.

Hong Kong’s dominant broadcaster said while it would continue investing in prime-time production, it’ll cut budgets for fringe-hour content and axe non-performing programmes.

It added that it expects to save a further HK$100 million in content costs by 2024, having announced HK$260 million in annual cost savings earlier this year.

 After 9:45am…we find out more about a new study on the mental health of children and adolescents.

9:05-9:30am Dr Florin Serban, Lecturer in the School of Communication at HKBU

9:05am-9:45am Marcel Fenez, President of Fenez Media limited

9:30am-9:45am Vera Yuen Lecturer, Faculty of Business and. Economics, University of Hong Kong
9:45am-10:00am Dr Sandra Chan, from the Children and Adolescent mental health team