Ricky Wong

In 9 August, Wong openly criticized for the non-action and lying of police regarding the attacks in North Point and 2019 Yuen Long attack.

On 12 November (2019 Chinese University of Hong Kong conflict), Wong urged the CUHK students and alumnus to go to CUHK and to protect the campus. Wong was filmed in CUHK campus wearing smoke-resisting mask

HKTV Mall lost HK$200 million a year in the first two years of its operation. In October 2016, Wong launched a physical store of HKTV Mall in North Point to boost its online shopping business, targeted to its 1.23 million registered subscribers.

Ricky Wong has a daughter and a son with his first wife Helen, with whom he divorced in 2016. Wong is engaged to Shirley Yuen, CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.

Wong is usually considered as a centrist, but he was supported by the Liberal Party when running in 2016 Hong Kong legislative election.

In February 2015, Wong led HKTV to seek business opportunities in internet shopping and launched online shopping platform "HKTV Mall". Wong aimed to build the largest and the most diversified in terms of brand names, products and services e-shopping mall in Hong Kong, providing one-stop shop & 24 X 7 services.

In December 2013, HKTV acquired a mobile TV licence and the spectrum needed to broadcast, and planned to launch services on 1 July 2014. However, in March 2014, the government refused to accept HKTV's technical proposal on the deployment of DTMB, the mobile TV standard deployed in China. Such matter was brought to court for further judgment.

In 2013, City Telecom was renamed as Hong Kong Television Limited (HKTV). Ricky Wong is the chairperson of HKTV and remains in charge of the full operation of HKTV. He initiated the application for broadcast license in 2009, but the application was rejected in October 2013. As a result, operations of HKTV was adversely affected and the company dismissed 320 employers. Wong and the public blamed the government for using a vague and generic phrase "a basket of factors" to refuse its application. He then sought another way for the company to survive.

Despite all these, Wong's actions made him to be named Radio Hong Kong's Icon of the Year in 2013.

In 2010 he was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year China in the 'Telecom' category.

In 2009, Wong's CTI applied for a domestic free television program service licence and in 2012, he disposed all telecom businesses to focus on the development of his television and multimedia businesses, eventually renaming CTI to Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV). However, HKTV's application was subsequently rejected in October 2013, prompting Wong to lead HKTV towards the mobile TV and internet shopping industries.

On 3 December 2008, Linus Cheung originally hired Ricky Wong to be the chief executive of Asia Television (ATV), which had long been recognised as pro-Beijing. On 4 December, it was announced that both of them would lead the TV station's reform. The station was losing HK$1 million a day after racking up losses of HK$300 million in 2007. After just 12 days Ricky Wong was reported to have resigned from his ATV position., with himself denying that he had ever quit.

With this new competition, IDD price started to drop over 50%. In March 1998, after lengthy negotiation with the government, Hong Kong Telecom International surrendered its exclusive licence for provision of certain external telecommunication circuits and services, eight years earlier than the scheduled expiry, in return for a cash compensation of HK$6.7 billion. According to official data, cumulative savings resulting from competition in the mobile and IDD service markets have also been substantial, while savings from IDD service were estimated at HK$25.5 billion between 1999 and 2002.

As an entrepreneur in the telecommunications and technology industries, Wong set up City Telecom (H.K.) Limited (CTI) in 1992, providing alternative international direct dialing (IDD) services at affordable tariffs which broke the predominant market monopoly. In 1999, he established Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, building a territory-wide fibre network to provide super high speed broadband, telephone and IP-TV services, and led the company to become the second largest IP provider in Hong Kong. In 2010, Wong was voted the 60th most powerful person in Global Telecoms Business by the Global Telecom Business Magazine.

A former member of the Liberal Party in the 1990s, Wong surrendered his Canadian citizenship and contested the 2016 legislative election in the Hong Kong Island constituency, with the objective to oust Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, but failed to win a seat.

Ricky Wong Wai-kay (Chinese: 王維基 ; born 13 December 1961 in Hong Kong) is a telecom and media entrepreneur in Hong Kong. He is the chairman and founder of Hong Kong Television Network, and the founder of Hong Kong Broadband Network. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees, United College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.