CGTN Documentary

CGTN Documentary
Type	State media
Country	China
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV ; (downscaled to 576i / 480i for the SD feed)
Ownership
Owner	China Central Television
History
Launched	1 January 2011 ; 13 years ago
Former names	CCTV-9 Documentary ; (2011 - 2016)
Links
Website	www .cgtn .com /channel /documentary
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital TV ; Hong Kong	Channel 34 (HD)
Digital TV ; (Macau)	Channel 74
DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa)	Channel 448
Zuku TV (Kenya)	Channel 413
Streaming media
CGTN Documentary	www .cgtn .com /channel /documentary

CGTN Documentary (formerly CCTV-9 Documentary ) is a state-run English-language documentary channel operated by the China Global Television Network (CGTN) group, owned by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). It broadcasts documentaries in the English language , and is China's first state-level English-language documentary channel to broadcast globally.

It used to share the "CCTV-9" name with its sister documentary channel in Mandarin Chinese . The channel has also been known to carry some Mandarin-language programmes with English subtitles; it broadcasts new programming between 7:00pm and 11:00pm Beijing time, and repeats archival programming at other times. ^{[
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Availability [ edit ]

In Macau , the digital terrestrial television operator TDM relays the channel on channel 74. In Hong Kong , the city's public broadcaster RTHK used to simulcast the channel as RTHK TV 33 terrestrially in both digital and analogue formats, but on 29 May 2017, RTHK began simulcasting a separate version of CCTV-1 in its place after a short filler. The CGTN Documentary simulcast were resumed from 1 July 2022, this time on digital-only channel 34. ^[1]

In Pakistan , the channel is aired on different cable systems, including the PTCL (Pakistan Tele Communication Landline).

In Europe it can be received unencrypted by satellites ^[2] Hotbird and Astra and in Italy on platform Tivusat at LCN 88. ^[3]

References [ edit ]

^ "RTHK relays two national channels from July 1" . RTHK . 24 June 2022 . Retrieved 26 June 2022 .
^ "CGTN Documentary" . lyngsat.com . 2017-07-30.
^ "Numerazione LCN Canali TivuSat" (in Italian). digital-forum.it . Retrieved 2021-07-02 .

External links [ edit ]

Official website

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[1] "RTHK relays two national channels from July 1" . RTHK . 24 June 2022 . Retrieved 26 June 2022 .

[2] "CGTN Documentary" . lyngsat.com . 2017-07-30.

[3] "Numerazione LCN Canali TivuSat" (in Italian). digital-forum.it . Retrieved 2021-07-02 .

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