CGTN (TV channel)
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.[1][2][3]
For the media company, see China Global Television Network.Type
Worldwide
20 September 1997
CCTV-9
(1997 - 2010)
CCTV News
(2010 - 2016)
Digital channel number varies by area.
Channel 35 (HD)
Channel 73
Channel 13.4 (Chicago)
Channel 32.2 (Santa Barbara)
Channel 31
Channel 29 (SD)
Channel 409
Channel 550
Channel 238
Channel 794
CCTV-9 was launched on 25 September 2000, rebranded as CCTV News on 26 April 2010. On 6 February 2012, CGTN America. On 8 October 2019, CGTN Europe was launched, with a schedule of daily programming originating from a production center in Washington, D.C.[4] On 11 January 2012, CCTV Africa was launched in Nairobi, Kenya.[5] All channels and divisions in the CCTV International group were rebranded as CGTN on 31 December 2016.
CGTN currently has four studios: Beijing (headquarters), Nairobi, Washington and London as well as 70 bureaus around the world.
Awards[edit]
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, as well as multiple New York Festivals medals and White House News Photographers Association awards.[25]
