China Central Television

China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China.Barboza, David.   "Olympics Are Ratings Bonanza for Chinese TV," New York Times. August 21, 2008; retrieved 2011-11-21.

CCTV has a network of 50 channels. Each channel broadcasts different programs to more than one billion viewers.CCTV, "About us"; retrieved 2011-11-22.  The CCTV programs are a mixture of history, documentary, comedy, entertainment, and drama.

History
CCTV Peking (Beijing) Television (北京电视台) broadcast its first program on September 2, 1958.

The network changed its name to CCTV on May 1, 1978.

Related pages
 CCTV New Year's Gala

References

 Other websites 

 CCTV Live Site  
 CCTV Official Site 
 CCTV-News  
 CCTV-E  
 CCTV-F  
 CCTV-Arabic  
 CCTV-Pусский  
 CCTV News Channel Site 

Category:Television networks
Category:Companies of the People's Republic of China