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CGTN is the English-language news channel of state-run China Global Television Network, based in Beijing, China.It is one of several channels provided by China Global Television Network, the international division of Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), under the control of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
[citation needed] The idea of an English channel was brought out in 1996. CCTV-4 had three half-hour English news broadcasting every day, but later, on 25 September 2000, CCTV-9 a satellite channel was set up to be the first 24-hour English channel, aimed to establish the overseas market.
Was general television for culture, renamed to CCTV International on 1 November 1994, and renamed to CCTV Chinese International in 2006. Was having English and Cantonese programmes before 2006, channel signal splitted to 3 edition (Asian, European and American) in 2006, bilingual captions available since 2009 for dramas. CCTV-5 Sports
CGTN America is a channel of China Global Television Network (CGTN), ... 2012, [2] replacing the former English language CCTV-NEWS in the region. [3]
CCTV-9 is a television channel operated by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), broadcasting documentaries in Mandarin Chinese. It shared the name with CCTV's English language documentary channel until 31 December 2016, when the latter was renamed CGTN Documentary .
CGTN grew out of CCTV's all-English channel, known as CCTV-9 or CCTV International, launched in 2000 and renamed CCTV News in 2010. [10] Channels in other languages were launched during the mid and late 2000s. In December 2016, the six non-Chinese language television channels under CCTV International were rebranded to bear the CGTN name. [5]
CCTV-9 News or simply as CCTV News is the main newscast on Chinese International English language news and information channel, CCTV-9, which became CCTV NEWS in 2010. It covers the news stories from China, Asia and around the world in 30 minutes.
It broadcasts documentaries in the English language, and is China's first state-level English-language documentary channel to broadcast globally. It used to share the "CCTV-9" name with its sister documentary channel in Mandarin Chinese. The channel has also been known to carry some Mandarin-language programmes with English subtitles; it ...