China Central Television
The China Central Television Headquarters in 2019 | |
| Type | State media |
|---|---|
| Country | |
First air date | 1 May 1958 |
| Founded | Beijing |
| Headquarters | CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, People's Republic of China |
Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Parent | China Media Group[1] |
Former names | Beijing Television |
Free channels | 25 |
Pay channels | 19 |
| Callsigns | Voice of China (external) |
| Affiliation(s) | China Global Television Network |
Official website | english |
| Subsidiary | China International Television Corporation |
| China Central Television | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Chinese | 中国中央电视台 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中國中央電視台 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | China Central Television Station | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Chinese abbreviation | |||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中央电视台 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中央電視台 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Central Television Station | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 央视 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 央視 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Central-Vision | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Politics of China |
|---|
China portal
|
China Central Television (CCTV) is the national television broadcaster of China, established in 1958. CCTV is operated by the National Radio and Television Administration which reports directly to the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.[2][3][4][5]
CCTV has a variety of functions, such as news communication, social education, culture, and entertainment information services. It is a key player in the Chinese government's propaganda network.[6][1] Freedom House and The Guardian commented that CCTV's reporting about topics sensitive to the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is distorted and often used as a weapon against the party's perceived enemies.[7][8]
- ^ a b "Ownership and control of Chinese media". 14 June 2021. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ Pan, Jennifer; Shao, Zijie; Xu, Yiqing (2021). "How government-controlled media shifts policy attitudes through framing". Political Science Research and Methods. 10 (2): 317–332. doi:10.1017/psrm.2021.35. ISSN 2049-8470. S2CID 243422723.
- ^ Buckley, Chris (21 March 2018). "China Gives Communist Party More Control Over Policy and Media". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 12 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
Under the new plan, the party's Department of Propaganda will take direct control of film, the news media and publications from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, a government agency.
- ^ Brady, Anne-Marie (16 November 2009). Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 17, 167. ISBN 978-0-7425-6790-0. OCLC 968245349.
- ^ Edney, Kingsley (2014). The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 22, 195. doi:10.1057/9781137382153. ISBN 978-1-349-47990-0.
In recent years however the Party State has recognised the negative connotations of the word "propaganda" in English and now official English translations refer to the "Publicity Department"
- ^ Zhong, Yong (August 2001). "The other Edge of Commercialisation: Enhancing CCTV's Propaganda". Media International Australia. 100 (1): 167–179. doi:10.1177/1329878X0110000115. ISSN 1329-878X.
- ^ Cook, Sarah (25 September 2019). "China Central Television: A Long-standing Weapon in Beijing's Arsenal of Repression". Freedom House. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ Lim, Louisa; Bergin, Julia (7 December 2018). "Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 19 May 2021.