CGTN (TV channel)

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This article is about the television channel formerly known as CCTV-9 and then CCTV News. For the present-day documentary television channel, see CCTV-9. For the Chinese language television news channel, see CCTV-13.
CGTN
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Launched 20 September 1997; 27 years ago (1997-09-20)
Network China Global Television Network
Owned by China Central Television
(Government of the People's Republic of China)
Picture format 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 4:3 576i for the SDTV feed)
Slogan See the Difference.
Country China
Language English
Broadcast area Worldwide
Headquarters CCTV Beijing Television Centre Headquarters, Beijing Central Business District, Beijing, China
Formerly called CCTV-9
(2000 – 2010)
CCTV News
(2010 – 2016)
Website CGTN
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television
(China)		 various
Digital terrestrial television
(United States)		 Channel 31.9 (Los Angeles)
Channel 36.3 (San Francisco)
Channel 61.2 (Chicago)
Channel 32.2 (Santa Barbara)
Freeview
(United Kingdom)		 Channel 226
Oqaab (Afghanistan) Channel 31
Satellite
Hot Bird 13°E (Europe, Middle East & North Africa) 11585 V 27500 5/6 (HD)
11034 V 27500 3/4 (SD)
Astra 19.2E (Europe) 11538 V 22000 5/6 (SD)
Astra 28.2E (Europe) 11224 V 23000 2/3 (HD)
11479 V 22000 5/6 (SD)
Eutelsat 7°E (Europe, Middle East & North Africa) 10928 V 30000 5/6 (HD)
Eutelsat 36°E (Sub Saharan Africa) 11938 H 27500 3/4 (SD)
Azerspace-2 45°E (West Africa) 11515 V 30000 ? (SD)
Intelsat 20 68.5°E (Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia) 4064 H 19850 7/8 (SD)
Thaicom 6 78.5°E (Southeast Asia) 12405 V 45000 3/5 (SD)
Chinasat 6B 115.5°E (Asia & Oceania) 3770 H 12360 3/5 (HD)
4116 H 21374 3/4 (SD)
Telstar 18V 138°E (China) 12721 V 43200 2/3 (SD)
Astra 5°E (Sub Saharan Africa) 12034 H 27500 3/4 (SD)
Thor 5 0.8°W (Europe) 12418 V 28000 7/8 (SD)
Nilesat 201 7°W (Middle East & North Africa) 12015 V 27500 5/6 (SD)
Intelsat 34 55.5°W (Americas & Europe) 4175 H 30000 3/4 (HD)
Intelsat 21 58°W (Americas & Europe) 3880 H 27690 7/8 (SD)
Galaxy 3C 95°W (North America) 11780 H 20760 3/4 (SD)
MNC Vision (Indonesia) Channel 352
Freesat (UK) Channel 211 (SD/HD)
Sky (UK & Ireland) Channel 509 (HD)
Channel 891 (SD)
DirecTV (United States)
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Dish Network (United States) Channel 279
SKY Network Television
(New Zealand)		 Channel 310
Sky (Italy) Channel 535
DStv (South Africa) Channel 409
Yes (Israel) Channel 111
Foxtel (Australia) Channel 653
Dialog TV (Sri Lanka) Channel 35
Dish TV Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka) Channel 785
Cignal (Philippines) Channel 138 (SD)
OSN (Middle East and North Africa) Channel 419
Cable
StarHub TV (Singapore) Channel 722
SkyCable / Destiny Cable (Philippines) Channel 91 (Digital)
Channel 90 (Destiny Analog)
Cablelink (Philippines) Channel 256
TelstraClear
(New Zealand)		 Channel 310
UPC Romania
(Romania)		 Channel 428
Channel 196
Hot (Israel) Channel 141
First Media
(Indonesia)		 Channel 210
CATV China Channel 9
Ziggo (Netherlands) Channel 508 (SD)
Cable TV Hong Kong Channel 129
Comcast (San Francisco, US) Channel 171
Ask Cable Vision (Sri Lanka) Channel 36
Caiway (Netherlands) Channel 238 (SD)
IPTV
Bell Fibe TV (Canada) Channel 657 (SD)
Telus TV (Canada) Channel 834 (HD)
Singtel TV (Singapore) Channel 155
AT&T U-verse (United States) Channel 3602
SK Broadband B TV (South Korea) Channel 371
KT Olleh TV (South Korea) Channel 222
LG U+ TV (South Korea) Channel 154
Telekom Romania (Romania) Channel 263
PTCL Smart TV (Pakistan) Channel 103
A1 TV (Austria) Channel 118 (SD)
Fetch TV (Australia) Channel 188
Streaming media
CGTN Live Watch Live
CNTV CCTV-NEWS
Sling TV Internet Protocol Television
Ziggo GO (Netherlands) ZiggoGO.tv (Europe only)

CGTN (China Global Television Network), formerly known as CCTV-9 and CCTV News, is a Chinese international English-language news channel of the state-owned China Global Television Network group, which is part of Beijing-based China Central Television (CCTV) and under the control of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China.[1] The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to CNN International, BBC World News, NHK World-Japan, DW, Voice of America, Al Jazeera English, France 24 and RT. The channel was launched on 25 September 2000. Coverage includes newscasts, in-depth reports, and commentary programs, as well as feature presentations. Its free-to-air satellite signal can be received by more than 85 million viewers, in over 100 countries and regions.[2] It is focused towards the Chinese diaspora and English-speaking audience on the international ground.

History

CCTV began considering English-language international news programming on 1 January 1979, at the start of China's "Reform and opening up" period. English news bulletins began on CCTV-2 in 1986 and became available to overseas viewers when they moved to CCTV-4 in February 1991. CCTV-9 began broadcasting across China on 25 September 2000, becoming the country's first all-English television station.

On 1 January 2003, CCTV-9 entered the United States cable market, as part of a deal that allowed AOL, Time Warner, and News Corporation access to cable systems in Guangdong. In its early years, CCTV-9 broadcast English language news bulletins and cultural interest shows for most of each day, and aired mostly reruns during the overnight hours in China. One of its biggest projects was covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Until April 2010, CCTV-9 was a mixed general interest channel featuring news, travel programming, and language training. But on the 26th of that month, CCTV-9 was relaunched as a 24-hour English-language news service, and its name was changed to "CCTV News."[3]

On 31 December 2016 the channel was relaunched as CGTN (China Global Television Network), and new programs debuted.

In 2018 Kong Linlin, a CGTN reporter, verbally accosted a panel at the Conservative Party Conference and accused them, among other things, of being “fake Chinese.” After being asked to leave she assaulted another attendee.[4]

Revamp

The channel name of CCTV-9 was changed to CCTV News on 26 April 2010.[5] Some shows were rebranded while other new programs were added. The English website is managed by China Network Television (CNTV), a web streaming service of CCTV. On 1 January 2011, the channel's former name CCTV-9 was taken over by CCTV's two documentary channels.

With new faces, new studios, and new equipment, the channel's upper managers said they hoped to strengthen the network's news gathering abilities, while aiming to present more perspectives from throughout China, and across Asia, to the rest of the world.[6] The next steps in this process included hiring additional foreign correspondents and setting up a number of international bureaus.

On 6 February 2012, the channel launched "CCTV America" and a schedule of daily programming originating from a production center in Washington, D.C.[7] On 11 October 2012, CCTV News launched its Africa operation in Nairobi, Kenya.[8] CCTV News currently has three broadcast centers—Beijing (main), Nairobi, and Washington—with 70 additional bureaus across the globe.

The revamp also saw the permanent addition of news and world financial markets tickers, similar to those seen on leading news channels, although these features had already been used intermittently in the previous decade.

Programming

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. CGTN usually airs a live news bulletin in the first half of each hour. As well as the standard news strand The World Today (which broadcasts 15 times a day, 7 days a week), there are specialist bulletins focusing on Chinese and Asian news, such as China 24 and business news (with regional variations) Global Business. Programming in the second half of each hour includes, sports bulletins, a travel show called Travelogue which takes viewers to destinations around China and the world, and magazines covering the arts, science and sports.

The news programs on CGTN include Africa Live, Americas Now and Asia Today, providing comprehensive news coverage that caters to the respective continents. The Link is a mix of the three aforementioned programs, though it still has an international appeal. Global Watch features a Chinese perspective on the news. Specialized programs include New Money, Matchpoint, Global Business, Culture Express and Sports Scene, providing news and information on business, finance, economics, culture, and sports. Shows such as Dialogue and World Insight extend balanced and critical perspectives on current affairs affecting all corners of the globe.

CGTN also provides programs on culture, history, and modern society of China and Asia. In Crossover, hosts and guests of various backgrounds and experiences talk about issues throughout China. Travelogue is the ticket to dynamic and exciting landscapes in China and abroad. Rediscovering China explores contemporary Chinese and Asian culture and social changes through the eyes of international visitors. Finally, Faces of Africa delivers African human interest stories.

Current Programs

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  • Africa Live
  • Americas Now
  • Asia Today
  • Assignment Asia
  • Big Story
  • China 24
  • China Insight
  • Closer To China with Robert Kuhn
  • Crossover
  • Culture Express
  • Dialogue with Yang Rui
  • Faces of Africa
  • Full Frame
  • Global Business
  • Global Watch
  • Match Point
  • My China
  • New Money
  • Rediscovering China
  • Spectrum Asia
  • Sports Scene
  • Talk Africa
  • The Heat
  • The Link
  • The Point with Liu Xin
  • The World Today
  • Travelogue
  • World Insight with Tian Wei

Former Programs

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  • Around China
  • Biz Asia
  • Biz Asia America
  • Biz China
  • Biz Talk
  • Centre Stage
  • China Today
  • China This Week
  • Destination Brazil
  • Documentary
  • Game Time London
  • Growing Up With Chinese
  • Journeys in Time
  • Kung Fu
  • Learn Chinese
  • Nature and Science
  • New Frontiers
  • News Desk
  • News Hour
  • News Update
  • Seventeen Days In Beijing
  • Story Board
  • Tech Max
  • Travel In Chinese
  • Up Close
  • World Wide Watch

Staff

The Chinese staff members at CGTN English range in experience from interns to media professionals with years in the business. Executive producers, producers and senior news anchors typically have higher education, often from universities in other countries. By 2007, the channel had about 300 staff members, of whom 70 were full-time with about 30 foreigners on contract. Ahead of the channel's 2010 relaunch, it began to hire foreign correspondents based in countries around the world, and in 2011 CCTV News started to hire English-speaking Chinese reporters based in 30 provincial bureaus across China.

Foreign news anchors

In addition to Chinese anchors, CGTN employs foreigners as news presenters, some of whom have extensive experience, such as Edwin Maher (a former newsreader and weatherman from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), while others may be recent university graduates just embarking upon their careers.

Former comptroller Jiang Heping defended the policy of putting foreigners on air, arguing that "we feel international on-air personalities boost the credibility of CGTN and befit its image as an international channel. In this regard, CGTN will not restrict the origin of its employees and choose to build its unique identity through its programming."[9]

The first foreign news anchor on what was then known as CCTV-9 was Chris Gelken, who joined the channel from Hong Kong's TVB and presented the 30-minute business show, BizChina. Gelken left CCTV News in 2005, and returned to TVB from 2010 to 2013.

Another prominent personality in CCTV-9's first decade was Mark Rowswell, otherwise known as Dashan. He hosted Travel in Chinese on CCTV News and has been honored for his work in promoting cancer awareness in China.[10]

In addition to those individuals, the channel later recruited Phillip Yin of Bloomberg Television, and Mike Walter from USA Today, to helm Biz Asia America and The Heat, respectively, when the Washington bureau opened in 2012.

The weather on CGTN is hosted by a rotating cast of presenters, so the staff changes on a frequent basis, partially because these updates are produced by an outside company which supplies content for several English-language media outlets around China.

CGTN Africa

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Main article: CGTN Africa

CCTV Africa is China Central Television's news productions center which was launched in Kenya on 11 January 2012. CGTN Africa focuses on African news and perspectives as well as international news.

CGTN Africa is responsible for newsgathering and task assignments on the African continent. CGTN Africa initially produce a one-hour program every day, including Africa news, Talk Africa and Face of Africa editions, and broadcast through CGTN's English news channel.

CGTN America

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Main article: CGTN America

CGTN America is the Americas division of CGTN the English-language news channel run by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television. It is based in Washington, DC and runs bureaus across North and South America. The service employs a mix of American and Chinese journalists and produces Americas-based programming for CGTN and CCTV.

CGTN America is led by director general Ma Jing with veteran Asia journalist Jim Laurie as executive consultant. It began broadcasting on 6 February 2012.

Notable personalities

Current

Former

Awards

In 2010, when the CCTV-NEWS because of its diversity in the global flow of information and broader vision won the 2010 Hot Bird TV award, the national window Award.[13]

The channel's Washington, DC based broadcast center, CGTN America, has won a News & Documentary Emmy for Jen Bricker: When Can't is a Four-Letter Word, and has also won multiple New York Festivals medals and White House News Photographers Association awards.

See full list here: CGTN America Awards

Criticisms

Despite its revamp launching of CCTV America, critics have voiced concerns over the level of self-censorship exercised by the channel, especially on sensitive domestic issues in China. Philip Cunningham of Cornell University, who has appeared more than 100 times on China Central Television talk shows said sensitive issues such as Tibet and Xinjiang were heavily edited on various programs.[14]

Ma Jing, Director of CCTV America defends such allegation by saying that the channel edits stories the same way other news organizations do. She said: "We uphold the traditional journalistic values. We consider accuracy, objectivity, truthfulness, and public accountability very important, more important than anything else."[14]

On 23 November 2018, a British corporate investigator submitted a formal complaint[15] to the United Kingdom's government communications regulator The Office of Communications, or Ofcom, maintaining he was forced under duress to confess on air over Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television's (CCTV) network and that, as the confession was subsequently broadcast[16] over the international arm of CCTV, China Global Television Network (CGTN), CGTN itself should be held culpable by Ofcom and denied the right to operate its broadcast service in the U.K. Reportedly Ofcom has said it is investigating the complaint and would "take necessary enforcement action" if rules are determined to have been violated.[17][18]

CGTN has registered as a foreign agent in the US.[19]

See also

References

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  6. ↑ China's English news channel relaunches 26 April Archived 31 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine CCTV Press Release, 26 April 2010
  7. ↑ About CCTV America CCTV America
  8. ↑ About CCTV Africa CCTV Africa
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  16. ↑ https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2174927/uk-watchdog-may-probe-china-state-medias-role-confession-peter
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  19. ↑ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/markdistefano/china-state-media-cgtn-foreign-agent-us
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