On 1 January 2003, CCTV-9 entered the United States cable market, as part of a deal that allowed AOL, Time Warner, and News Corporation access to cable systems in Guangdong. 6 Mar 2021 - Kenya is one of the largest importers of second-hand clothes in Sub-Saharan Africa with Ksh 197.5 billion spent in a single year… Kenyans.co.ke: Kenyans … On 4 February 2021, CGTN had its license to broadcast in the United Kingdom revoked by broacasting regulator Ofcom after an investigation found that it was "controlled by a body which is ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party". [8] In most of Europe, distribution of the CGTN channel was permitted because it held the UK licence, and until CGTN obtains a licence in another country of Europe CGTN has to go off air across most of Europe. CGTN, formerly known as CCTV-9 and CCTV News, is an international English-language cable TV news service, one of six channels provided by China Global Television Network, which is based in Beijing, China, and owned by China Central Television (CCTV), a state-owned media organization in China, under the control of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.[2]. In particular, the salary of UK£204.0k, makes up a huge portion of the total compensation being paid to the CEO. Mexican Consulate in LA to Host COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic NBC Los Angeles 01:09. Despite the interruption due to the health crisis of COVID-19, the economic relations between Morocco and China are still very intensive. CCTV-9 was launched on 25 September 2000, rebranded as CCTV News on 26 April 2010. — CGTN. CCTV-9 began broadcasting across China on 25 September 2000, becoming the country's first all-English television station. [39][40], This article is about the English-language television channel formerly known as CCTV-9 and then CCTV News. "[26], The UK's Ofcom is inquiring into alleged state bias over its coverage of the Hong Kong protests since September 2019. He hosted Travel in Chinese on CCTV News and has been honored for his work in promoting cancer awareness in China. The English website is managed by China Network Television (CNTV), a web streaming service of CCTV. [30][31] One such confession, staged in August 2013, was filmed by a CCTV crew with Humphrey locked in an iron chair inside a steel cage, wearing handcuffs and an orange prison vest. 100,000 migrants detained at U.S.-Mexico border in February: sources CGTN 01:20. [27], On 23 November 2018, a British corporate investigator named Peter Humphrey submitted a formal complaint[28] to the United Kingdom's government communications regulator The Office of Communications, or Ofcom, maintaining he was forced under duress to confess on air over Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television's (CCTV) network and that, as the confession was subsequently broadcast[29] over the international arm of CCTV, China Global Television Network (CGTN), CGTN itself should be held culpable by Ofcom and denied the right to operate its broadcast service in the U.K. Humphrey's complaint cited two films produced by CCTV and additionally aired in the UK by CGTN, stating that both were scripted and directed by the Chinese police, the public security bureau, while he was a prisoner, in conditions of duress amounting to torture. Within a week, Cheng had filed a new complaint to Ofcom.[34]. Philip Cunningham of Cornell University, who has appeared more than 100 times on China Central Television talk shows said sensitive issues such as Tibet and Xinjiang were heavily edited on various programs. On that date it was rebranded as CCTV News, a 24-hour English-language news service. CCTV Africa is China Central Television's news productions center which was launched in Kenya on 11 January 2012. The service employs American and Chinese journalists and produces Americas-based programs for CGTN and CCTV. [11] Some shows were rebranded while other new programs were added. [28][33] In November 2019, CGTN aired a video of a UK consular employee, Simon Cheng, in captivity "confessing" to consorting with prostitutes. [36], In March 2021, Australian public broadcaster Special Broadcasting Service suspended news bulletin broadcasts of CGTN and CCTV due to complaints of forced confessions. Air Namibia’s 644 employees have lost their jobs and will receive a severance package of a year’s salary, ... installments until September 2020. A very good example Kenya Airways is thriving through that model of business”, It has not been a smooth sail for the airline as in a June 4th 2020 National address, President Hage Geingob said “Air Namibia must be liquidated, we have a serious problem, it must be restructured, it is not making any profits and it is just being bailed out, we must do something about it.”. This was before he had been indicted, tried or convicted of a crime. Luqa, Malta – September 29, 2019: Air Namibia Airbus A330-243 (Reg: V5-ANP) arriving in Malta for servicing by Lufthansa Technik. CGTN currently has three broadcast centers—Beijing (main), Nairobi, and Washington, and 70 bureaus around the world. The trade represents a significant salary-cap savings for Colorado from Cole’s $4.25 million hit to Pateryn’s $2.25 million. CCTV began considering English-language international news programming on 1 January 1979, at the start of China's "Reform and opening up" period. [14], In addition to those individuals, the channel later recruited Phillip Yin of Bloomberg Television, and Mike Walter from USA Today, to helm Biz Asia America and The Heat, respectively, when the Washington bureau opened in 2012. Namibia’s cabinet has since given its approval for Air Namibia to be voluntarily liquidated. She said: "We uphold the traditional journalistic values. Newspaper is your news, entertainment, music & fashion website. English news bulletins began on CCTV-2 in 1986 and became available to overseas viewers when they moved to CCTV-4 in February 1991. [citation needed], On 18 September 2019, Nick Pollard, a veteran British TV executive, resigned from his post as consultant and advisor to CGTN, giving his reason for leaving as being CGTN's failure to comply with Ofcom's rules on impartiality in connection to its coverage of the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests. The median wealth for a white family was $188,200, compared to $24,100 for Black families and $36,100 for Hispanic families, according to the Federal Reserve. As part of the cooperation dynamic between Morocco and China, a Sino-Moroccan virtual tourism forum was organized by the Chinese Ministry of... by Hanane Thamik [4] All channels in the CCTV News group were rebranded as CGTN on 31 December 2016. CGTN America’s director general is Ma Jing, with veteran Asia journalist Jim Laurie as executive consultant. Air Namibia has announced that effective Thursday, all flight operations will be cancelled, with all aircrafts returning to base. In 2018 Kong Linlin, a CGTN reporter, verbally accosted a panel at the Conservative Party Conference and accused them, among other things, of being "fake Chinese". [38] Alongside their international media strategy, the Chinese Communist Party has also stepped up the use of "Pro-Beijing trolls -- the so-called 50-cent army, named for the price they are supposedly paid for each post" plus the "state-backed media and botnets [who] have been employed to pump out huge quantities of disinformation and misinformation" on social media platforms like Twitter. The news was not received well by most Namibians, with one of them by the name @ManyatiD saying on Twitter that “this is a very disappointing route they have opted for, public-private partnership was the best solution. You'll often see a large dish with an entire steamed fish on the dining table during Chinese New Year. [15] He had joined CGTN in December 2018.[16]. French energy giant Total on Monday detailed steps it would take to mitigate the environmental and human impact from its Tilenga project in Uganda... Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is Monday expected to appear in court, as protests in the country continue, with Sonko's supporters urged to "massively... Zimbabwe's mining sector is on course to attain a government target of hauling  $12 billion worth of minerals by 2023, state-run Herald newspaper reported... by Hanane Thamik In order to greet the upcoming year with more than enough good fortune, it's customary not to finish the entire fish, but leave a little bit uneaten. One result of the China Communist Party's international media strategy has been the elimination of the independent Chinese-language media outlets in the United States, "through a mix of co-option and aggressive expansion of its own competitors". "[13], The first foreign news anchor on what was then known as CCTV-9 was Chris Gelken, who joined the channel from Hong Kong's TVB and presented the 30-minute business show, BizChina. On 1 January 2011, the channel's former name CCTV-9 was taken over by CCTV's two documentary channels. “We will also explain that cabinet approved for the employees to receive ex gratia payments equal to the value of 12 months salary and that this amount will be disbursed over a 12 month period,” the documents read. Share This ... Africa. [23], 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, and has also won multiple New York Festivals medals and White House News Photographers Association awards. CGTN America is the Americas division of CGTN that began broadcasting on 6 February 2012. With new faces, new studios, and new equipment, the channel's upper managers said they hoped to strengthen the network's news gathering abilities, while aiming to present more perspectives from throughout China, and across Asia, to the rest of the world.[12]. 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We provide you with the latest news and videos straight from the entertainment industry. [26] CGTN, formerly known as CCTV-9 and CCTV News, is an international English-language cable TV news service, one of six channels provided by China Global Television Network, which is based in Beijing, China, and owned by China Central Television (CCTV), a state-owned media organization in China, under the control of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. [32], Ofcom said it would investigate the complaint and would "take necessary enforcement action" if rules are determined to have been violated. Police arrest driver filmed damaging another motorist’s vehicle in Nairobi Driver insulted a female motorist and damaged her car’s windscreen Police impound Mataara Sacco matatu number KCK 114P Driver arrested in Thika and transferred to Kasarani police station Air Namibia has announced that effective Thursday, all flight operations will be cancelled, with all aircrafts returning to base. Notably, that's an increase of 21% over the year before. On 8 March 2019, after CGTN America registered under FARA, its director general Ma Jing and a dozen other staffers were recalled to Beijing. Beijing ICP prepared NO.16065310-3. [citation needed], Another prominent personality in CCTV-9's first decade was Mark Rowswell, otherwise known as Dashan. Until 26 April 2010, CCTV-9 was a mixed general interest channel featuring news, travel programming, and language training. One of its biggest projects was covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [24][25], Despite its revamp launching of CCTV America, critics have voiced concerns over the level of self-censorship exercised by the channel, especially on sensitive domestic issues in China. The three were understood to be intelligence officers for Beijing's Ministry of State Security, the paper said Thursday, citing … Ofcom concluded a company called Star China Media Limited wrongly held the license for CGTN and "doesn't have day-to-day control over the channel," which is against Ofcom rules. [citation needed] CGTN Africa initially produced a one-hour program every day, including Africa news, Talk Africa and Face of Africa editions, and broadcast through CGTN's English news channel. Opinion: The Cité Mohammed VI Tangier Tech: a model of active cooperation between Morocco... Opinion: Build Africa back to ‘better’…not just to ‘normal’. The regulator said it was not going to transfer the licence to that company because it is, "ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, which is not permitted under UK broadcasting law". [6], On 4 February 2021, Ofcom withdrew CGTN's UK broadcaster licence. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. The Guardian's Louisa Lim and Julia Bergin wrote that while the "[China] Communist Party has always maintained a tight grip over domestic media, their strategy has shifted in recent years to spread that control globally", by "exerting their influence on media abroad, through a multifaceted approach that includes offering generous salary packages to recruit talented journalists away from local media in Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere; buying advertising supplements in mainstream foreign publications; buying foreign media companies outright; and making deals with local broadcasters in Africa and elsewhere to spread their content in local markets". In mid-August 2020, Cheng Lei, an Australian journalist who since 2012 worked for CGTN as an anchor for a business show, was detained by Chinese authorities and charged in February 2021 with sharing state secrets, with no further information being provided. Ma Jing, Director of CCTV America defends such allegation by saying that the channel edits stories the same way other news organizations do. After being asked to leave she assaulted another attendee. In 2016, Rachelle Akuffo took over from Phillip Yin as the anchor of Biz Asia America, which was then rebranded as Global Business America. Those efforts have now been exhausted. [9] In response, China banned BBC World News from airing in mainland China which was soon followed upon by RTHK withdrawing distribution of BBC's content in Hong Kong.[10]. On 6 February 2012, CCTV America was launched, with a schedule of daily programming originating from a production center in Washington, D.C.[3] On 11 October 2012, CCTV Africa were launched in Nairobi, Kenya. We consider accuracy, objectivity, truthfulness, and public accountability very important, more important than anything else. Former comptroller Jiang Heping defended the policy of putting foreigners on air, arguing that "we feel international on-air personalities boost the credibility of CGTN and befit its image as an international channel. Copyright © 2020 CGTN. 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[20], In 2010, CCTV-News won the National Window award at 2010's Hot Bird TV awards. Audiences: Is it News or Propaganda? Digital labor platforms have increased five-fold worldwide in the last decade, from 142 in 2010 to over 777 in 2020, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO)'s latest World Employment and Social Outlook 2021 report. We expect to conclude separate sanctions proceedings against CGTN for due impartiality and fairness and privacy breaches shortly. Britain has expelled three Chinese spies working in the UK while posing as journalists over the past year, the Daily Telegraph has reported. In its early years, CCTV-9 broadcast English language news bulletins and cultural interest shows for most of each day, and aired mostly reruns during the overnight hours in China. Its free-to-air satellite signal is received in over 100 countries. The United States Department of Justice ordered CGTN America to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), which CGTN America did on 1 February 2019. [37], During Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping's tour of state media outlets in February 2016, he emphasized that they must "speak for the Party", and, further, that they must expand their influence abroad in order to "tell China’s story to the world". The channel name of CCTV-9 was changed to CCTV News on 26 April 2010. [19] Registration requires CGTN America to disclose information about its annual budget and ownership structure, and to include disclaimers on broadcasts, published materials and social media identifying itself as a registered foreign agent. The programming is claimed to be controlled by a company called China Global Television Network Corporation. [citation needed] It is based in Washington, DC and runs bureaus in North and South America. [17] Soon after Cheng was detained, two Australian journalists working in China fled the country after being questioned by authorities on national security grounds, leaving Australia's media without any journalists working in China for the first time in nearly 50 years. Our data indicates that James Cropper PLC has a market capitalization of UK£110m, and total annual CEO compensation was reported as UK£299k for the year to March 2020. Coverage includes newscasts, in-depth reports, and commentary programs, as well as feature presentations. The Mirage of Mexican Guest Workers Foreign Affairs 01:00. 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In addition to Chinese anchors, CGTN employs foreigners as news presenters, some of whom have extensive experience, such as Edwin Maher (a former newsreader and weatherman from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), while others may be recent university graduates just embarking upon their careers. Gelken left CCTV News in 2005, and returned to TVB from 2010 to 2013. The second, in July 2014, was once again filmed by CCTV, not in a cage this time, but still in a prison vest and handcuffs, before he had been tried or convicted on the charge of illegal information gathering. As reported by The Namibian, in leaked documents from a consultative meeting held Wednesday, the cabinet made the decision that the airline’s workers will enjoy preferential treatment and receive their full severance packages from the liquidators. In this regard, CGTN will not restrict the origin of its employees and choose to build its unique identity through its programming. [18] CGTN has deleted all reference to Cheng from its website and social media, and has not made any report or comment on Cheng’s detention. This is because a fish symbolizes prosperity, as the Chinese character for fish, yu, is a homonym for "surplus." The statement by Air Namibia Management further said that the reservation system for taking new bookings is also suspended, with affected passengers been required to register their claims for refund. Following careful consideration, taking account of all the facts and the broadcaster's and audience's rights to freedom of expression, we have decided it is appropriate to revoke the licence for CGTN to broadcast in the UK. [7] CGTN later claimed Ofcom had been manipulated by extreme right-wing organizations and anti-China forces. [5] On 31 December 2016, the channel was rebranded again as CGTN, and new programs debuted with the first program Global Watch and first news anchored by Rachel Bubble. [35] In a statement, Ofcom said: We have given CGTN significant time to come into compliance with the statutory rules. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save.
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