TVB scraps annual music awards show
Television station abandons solo show and collaborates with radio stations to produce joint programme as singers reject exclusive contracts
Television station TVB will do away with its nearly three-decade-old annual music awards show next year and replace it with a similar prize-giving extravaganza jointly organised with three radio stations.
The terrestrial broadcaster says the new annual programme would be an authoritative industry bash in which public voting will decide the awards.
Talks were under way with Commercial Radio, RTHK and Metro Radio, TVB executive director and group general manager Mark Lee Po-on told the South China Morning Post.
The long-running Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation had contributed a great deal to the rise of Canto-pop culture, but Lee admitted the time for change had come.
"Four stations organise music awards of their own every year," he said. "So who are the real kings and queens of Canto-pop?"
TVB is seeking to win public support for its opposition to the introduction of more free-to-air television operators.