CCTV-4
| CCTV-4 中文国际 | |
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| Launched | 1 October 1992 |
| Network | CCTV |
| Owned by | CCTV |
| Picture format |
576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Country | China |
| Language | Chinese |
| Broadcast area | International |
| Headquarters | Beijing, People's Republic of China (2009-present) |
| Formerly called | China Central Television Fourth Sets Programs(1992-1995), China Central Television International Channel(1995-2006) |
| Website |
CCTV-4 Asia CCTV-4 Europe CCTV-4 America CCTV Daifu TCCTV CCTV-4 China |
Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| WCETV (Los Angeles, US) | Channel 31.8 |
| Freeview (UK) | Channel 226 (Streamed) |
| Satellite | |
| Max3 (Indonesia) | Channel 348 |
| Jadeworld (Australia) | Channel 8 |
| TVB Pay Vision (Hong Kong) | Channel 83 |
| Skynindo (Indonesia) | Channel 18 |
| SKY Italia (Italy) | Channel 580 |
| Astro (Malaysia) | Channel 334 |
| DStv (South Africa) | Channel 420 |
| Skylife (South Korea) | Channel 172 |
| TrueVisions (Thailand) | Channel 786 |
| DirecTV (U.S.) | Channel 454 |
| Dish Network (U.S.) | Channel 582 |
| MyCATV Lucena (Philippines) | Channel 59 |
| OrangeTV (Indonesia) | Channel 407 |
| Kristal-Astro (Brunei) | Channel 334 |
| NJOI (Malaysia) | Channel 334 |
| Sky PerfecTV! | Channel 783/568 |
| Cable | |
| Rogers Cable (Canada) | Channel 804 |
| Cable TV Hong Kong (Hong Kong) | Channel 71 |
| First Media (Indonesia) | Channel 209 |
| Cablelink (Philippines) | Channel 253 |
| Destiny Cable (Philippines) |
Channel 66 (Analog) Channel 92 (Digital) |
| StarHub TV (Singapore) |
DTTV: Channel 30 Cable: Channel 801 |
| Cablecom (Switzerland) | Channel 450 |
| Naxoo (Switzerland) | Channel 313 |
| Shaw Cable (Canada) | Channel 524 |
| TrueVisions (Thailand) | Channel 786 |
| Intercable (Venezuela) | Channel 99 |
| SkyCable (Philippines) | Channel 92 (Digital) |
| Macau Cable Television (Macau) | Channel 318 |
| Parasat Cable TV (Philippines) | Channel 307 |
| ABNXcess (Malaysia) | Channel 304 |
 Coltrahue Digital | Channel 77.1 |
| IPTV | |
| TPG (Australia) | Chinese TV2 |
| bbTV (Hong Kong) | Channel 730 |
| now TV (Hong Kong) | Channel 542 |
| HyppTV (Malaysia) | Channel 216 |
| Mio TV (Singapore) | Channel 555 |
| KylinTV (U.S.) | Channel 12 |
| FiOS TV (U.S.) | Channel 1845 |
| Streaming media | |
| CNTV Ai Bugu |
CCTV-4 Asia CCTV-4 Europe CCTV-4 America CCTV Daifu CCTV-4 China |
CCTV-4 中文国际 (Chinese: 中国中央电视台中文国际频道; pinyin: Zhōngguó zhōngyāng diànshìtái zhōngwén guójì píndào) is a 24-hour Chinese international channel. It is one of six China Central Television channels that broadcasts outside of the People's Republic of China.
This channel contains a variety of programs including documentaries, music, news, drama series, sports and children shows for the People's Republic of China, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Republic of China.
History
CCTV-4 was officially launched by President Yang Shangkun at President Palace of the People's Republic of China in Beijing in 1992. It started as a six-hour Chinese international channel.
The programming of CCTV-4 initially consisted of a mixture of English and Chinese programming. English broadcasting stopped with the introduction of the English language channel CCTV-9 in September 2000. Select CCTV-4 programs were also broadcast in Cantonese until 2007, since when the channel has been broadcast in Mandarin Chinese only.
In 1994 the channel expanded to twelve hours and in 1998 it expanded to eighteen hours.
Recently, the European feed has started to air certain shows with English subtitles.
In 2007, the channel was split into three editions of continents and three editions of countries:
- CCTV-4 Asia - Daily programs to Asia and Australasia.
- CCTV-4 Europe - Daily programs to Europe and Africa.
- CCTV-4 America - Daily programs to North America and South America.
Partners
RCTI and TV3 both provide news bulletin programmes that focus on Indonesia and Malaya to CCTV-4. Other locally produced segments of the daily programming focus on Singapore, Batam and Johor Bahru.
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