China - BBC Worldwide announced a deal with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV that will bring highly rated CBeebies series Go Jetters to over 1.1 billion viewers in China. Fully dubbed in Mandarin and subtitled in simplified Chinese, the 50-episode series will premiere at the end of May on CCTV-14 – the children’s channel that is part of China Central Television (CCTV). CCTV is the predominant state television in the People’s Republic of China with over 50 different channels catering to a wide … [Read more...] about Go Jetters to air on China Central Television (CCTV)
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CCTV launches HD across Europe, Middle East & N. Africa
Paris – China Central Television (CCTV), has signed a long-term distribution contract with Eutelsat Communications to broadcast three of its flagship channels in High Definition across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. CCTV-4 HD, CGTN HD (formerly CCTV News) and CGTN-Documentary HD (formerly CCTV Documentary) are now available in High Definition in Chinese and English from the high-power HOTBIRD satellites. The channels broadcast free-to-air and complement Standard Digital … [Read more...] about CCTV launches HD across Europe, Middle East & N. Africa
The Eureka Moment no. 1 in China
Having premiered in CCTV1’s Sunday evening primetime slot earlier in July, The Eureka Moment ranked #1 in its time slot and achieved a 1.367 rating as well as taking 4% of the market share. The Eureka Moment also proved popular on social media having recorded over 348,000 viewers interacting with the series via the Chinese social media site, Weibo, making it the hottest topic on Chinese social media that night. A further 2.8m also interacted with the series via WeChat throughout the premiere. … [Read more...] about The Eureka Moment no. 1 in China
ZooMoo China Premiere brings success
China- ZooMoo Animal Friends, a 60 part children’s series, premiered last month on CCTV14 in China to a massive 252 million viewers. Co-produced by ZooMoo Networks and CCTV, ZooMoo Animal Friends aired on prime time daily from 8 February 2016. It was the number one show in the country in its time slot in the 4-14 year old age group, with a 2.27% audience share, won the top ranked show across this age group. The show was watched by 72.68 million children aged 4-14, the second largest group … [Read more...] about ZooMoo China Premiere brings success
FremantleMedia partners CCTV
China– FremantleMedia China announced a partnership with CCTV, seeing the commission of gameshow The Eureka Moment. The FremantleMedia format will be co-developed for local audiences with CCTV’s wholly-owned subsidiary, CCTV Creation with 11 90 minutes episodes premiering on CCTV-1 in June this year. Originally developed by Blue Circle for RTL4 in the Netherlands, The Eureka Moment is a gameshow in which two couples go head to head testing their knowledge and coming face to face with … [Read more...] about FremantleMedia partners CCTV
Chinese broadcasters file suit
Hong Kong − CASBAA, the Association of the Asia-Pacific Pay-TV industry, welcomed press reports that Chinese language television broadcasters had filed suit in U.S. courts against companies promoting and selling a brand of streaming media boxes targeted at receiving large amounts of pirated TV programming. The suit was filed in Federal court in California by TVB from Hong Kong, CCTV from mainland China, and Dish-TV, a U.S. satellite television provider that carries legitimately … [Read more...] about Chinese broadcasters file suit
