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CCTV-5 (Chinese: 中国中央电视台体育频道), also known as the Sports
Channel, part of the China Central Television
family of networks, is the main sports broadcaster in the People's Republic of China.
CCTV-Olympic began broadcasting on January 1, 1995. CCTV－Olympic
now broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
It has extensive coverage of European football leagues
(including Italian, Spanish, German and French leagues; however, it does not hold the
rights for the English Premiership or UEFA
Champions League in recent years). CCTV-Olympic also has the
exclusive rights in China to
broadcast the World Cup, Olympic Games and Asian Games. It has many popular programmes
among Chinese sports fans.
CCTV-Olympic (as well as most other CCTV channels) may be viewed
for free on the internet through the TVUnetworks application.
Temporary Rename of
Station and Scandal
As of January 2008, CCTV 5 was renamed the "Olympic Channel"
[1][2][3][4]. During
the ceremony, the Chinese broadcaster Hu Ziwei accused her husband
Zhang Bin, who is a famous sports anchor, of adultery on the air as
documented on a Youtube video [5]. The
video itself has spread outside of China and was reported by Voice of
America (Chinese broadcast) on January 3, 2008. [6] It
should be noted that the Chinese media, including CCTV has kept
this quiet.
Sports
Coverage
CCTV-Olympic has extensive coverage of the following sports:
See also
References
- ^
CCTV to launch Olympic
Channel, retrieved on January 3, 2008
- ^
Hu Ziwei Embarrassing Her
CCTV Sports Anchor Husband Zhang Bin, retrieved on January 3,
2008.
- ^
CCTV Gets Wrong Kind of
PR, retrieved on January 6, 2008
- ^
Lust, Caution and the
Olympics, retrieved on January 6, 2008
- ^
Chinese speaker for Olympics
facing unfaithful accusation, retrieved on January 3, 2008
- ^
Scandal captured on
YouTube, retrieved on January 3, 2008.
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