China Central Television
China Central Television (Chinese中国 中央 电视台, Pinyin Zhōngguó Zhongyang Diànshìtái, dt "Chinese Central Television" ), often abbreviated as CCTV, is the largest TV station in the People's Republic of China. Organizationally, it is part of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic, and as such has a journalistic dependence on government.
Program
The news coverage follows the specifications of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China. The program consists mainly of comedies and dramas, mostly Chinese soap operas. In the 1990s the station, such as the many other media companies in China, the government subsidies have been cut drastically. This results in the program design to a balancing act between the state line and a predetermined program choice that can survive on the free market in the battle for viewers and advertising revenue. In search of spectators CCTV competes with local, also state-run stations that have joined together to form larger media groups in order to survive against CCTV can.
History
CCTV began with the first transfer on September 2, 1958 under the name Beijing - TV after 1 May of the same year the first experimental transmissions had been successful. The name was changed on 1 May 1978 to CCTV.
On February 9, 2012 China Central Television launched a new channel CCTV America, the Washington, DC, and sends the item is to receive with other international news channels.
Reception of CCTV
CCTV offers 16 different programs and competes not only with other local stations, but also with the satellite receivable foreign stations. Most of the programs are named with a sequential number, without further description (eg: CCTV -1, CCTV -2, etc ).
Outside of China is only the reception of CCTV -4 ("Overseas channel"), CCTV -9 ( English), CCTV - News ( English) and CCTV -E & F (Spanish - and French-speaking) possible via Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB ) are transmitted. They are world -air via many satellite. Internet services such as PPLive transfer the program via Internet. The programs are also to receive unofficially live station where the live streams have been added by users. CCTV has recently switched to DVB, being able to bring not only because of the better signal quality, but also to charges of about $ 10 per year.
In 2008, the China Central Television Headquarters, the new headquarters of the station were opened to coincide with the Summer Olympics.
U.S. perception
For the 60th birthday of Radio Free Europe in October 2010 called Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, media companies such as Press TV (Iran), Russia Today, China Central Television and Telesur (Venezuela, South America ) as " enemies ". Isaacson corrected himself later that he had meant "enemies " in relation to Afghanistan and not to the countries and television stations, which he had mentioned in his speech.
Programs of CCTV
- CCTV -1: General
- CCTV -2: Economy
- CCTV -3: Culture
- CCTV -4: International ( in Mandarin )
- CCTV -5: Sports
- CCTV -6: Movies
- CCTV -7: Military / Agriculture
- CCTV -8: TV Drama
- CCTV 9 Documentaries ( in Mandarin )
- CCTV 9 Documentaries (in English)
- CCTV -10: Science and Technology
- CCTV -11: Operas
- CCTV -12: Society and Law
- CCTV -13: News ( in Mandarin )
- CCTV -14: Children
- CCTV -15: Music
- CCTV News: international news (in English)
- CCTV -Français: International (in French)
- CCTV - Español: International ( in Spanish)
- CCTV - العربية: International (in Arabic)
- CCTV Русский: International (in Russian)
- CCTV -22: High Definition