Telefishion
{{Use Hong Kong English|date=January 2025}}
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| country = Hong Kong
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| runtime = Various
| company = Asia Television
| first_aired = {{Start date|df=yes|1994|3|15}}
| last_aired = {{End date|df=yes|2011|5|22}}
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Telefishion ({{zh|t=魚樂無窮}}) is a television program in Hong Kong which was broadcast on ATV Home and ATV World and showed goldfish in a fish bowl live, accompanied by classical music.{{cite news |last=Bak |first=Gwong-gei 白廣基 |date=2011-01-28 |title=爐香齋：魚樂無窮 |trans-title=Luxiangzhai: Telefishion |language=zh |url=http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20110128/00418_010.html |newspaper=The Sun (Hong Kong) |accessdate=2024-03-05 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305084707/http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20110128/00418_010.html |archivedate=2024-03-05 }} The program was aired at startups and closedowns every day, and after daytime closedowns of ATV World. It was also the first slow TV in Hong Kong.
History<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/special/art/20150415/19112370 |title=【那些年的亞視】唯一的Telefishion 魚情未了不復來 |date=2015-04-15 |website=Apple Daily |access-date=2015-04-15|language=zh |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417222501/http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/special/art/20150415/19112370 |archivedate=2015-04-17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1920404/telefishion-and-atv-broadcasts-made-history-all-wrong-reasons |title=Telefishion and the ATV broadcasts that made history for all the wrong reasons |publisher=South China Morning Post |date=2016-03-04}}</ref>
Telefishion was suggested by Kenneth Kwok Wai Kin(郭偉健), the CEO of Asia Television who was invited by Lim Por-yen(林百欣). Kwok thought that the competitor, the Television Broadcasts Limited's test pattern was not interesting, so he suggested showing a fishbowl with goldfishes in summertime and a stove in wintertime, to replace the test pattern when off-the-air and increase the advertising revenue of ATV. ATV decided to use the fishbowl with goldfish option and the stove option was not implemented due to safety issues.
The program was introduced in mid-March 1994, and was first aired at 4:15 a.m. on 15 March 1994 simultaneously in both Home and World channels before closedown.{{cite news|title=ATV World|publisher=South China Morning Post|date=1994-03-14|page=25}} In 2004, as the ATV station started broadcasting 24 hours a day, the program was cancelled, 25 April 2004 being the last-time it was aired in ATV World.{{cite web |url=http://the-sun.on.cc/channels/ent/20040425/tv_eng.html |title=The programme list with Telefishion last-aired |date=2004-04-25 |website=太陽報網頁：SUN娛樂 |publisher=The Sun (Hong Kong) |language=zh}}{{cite web |url=http://the-sun.on.cc/channels/ent/20040502/tv_eng.html |title=The programme list without Telefishion |date=2004-05-02 |website=太陽報網頁：SUN娛樂 |publisher=The Sun (Hong Kong) |language=zh}}
In February 2011, Telefishion was aired again for a short time, broadcast in the morning. However, this TV program was cancelled in May 2011.{{cite news |script-title=zh:《魚樂無窮》下周重臨亞視 |date=2011-01-26 |publisher=Ming Pao|language=zh}}{{cite news |title=News archive of 《魚樂無窮》下周重臨亞視 in Ming Pao L.I.F.E. |date=2011-01-26 |url=http://www.life.mingpao.com/cfm/dailynews3b.cfm?File=20110126/nalgz/gze1.txt |publisher=Ming Pao L.I.F.E.|language=zh}}
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Category:Hong Kong television shows
Category:Asia Television original programming
Category:1990s Hong Kong television series
Category:2000s Hong Kong television series
Category:1994 Hong Kong television series debuts
Category:2004 Hong Kong television series endings
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Category:2011 Hong Kong television series endings