On the day free-to-air television station TVB announced it would continue a fight to block the issuance of more free-TV licences, the other free-TV station ATV sent out a press statement that was equally eye-catching.
The statement starts with this: "Over the past three years, everyone can see the change in ATV. It is held in high regard among the audience and our enemies." Apparently it said "enemies" instead of "rivals", a term used with extreme caution. (Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was accused of calling pan-democrats his enemy, but he denied the claims.)
ATV continued by claiming its programmes, including ATV Focus, got a lot of attention and appreciation from audiences. Indeed, the show has gained attention. The Communications Authority received 42,000 complaints after ATV aired five episodes of unfair comments about the student group Scholarism that campaigned against the national education curriculum.
Apparently the station was so unsure of its message that it sent out three releases to newspapers in one hour, with little change except the sequence of programmes listed as popular.