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Chung T'ien Television (CTi TV; ), is a nationwide
cable TV Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with broadc ...
network based in
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. It belongs to
Want Want Want Want Holdings Limited (Want Want; ) is a food manufacturer from Taiwan. It is one of the largest rice cake and flavored drink makers in Taiwan. It engages in the manufacturing and trading of snack foods and beverages, divided into four bu ...
China Times The ''China Times'' (, abbr. ) is a daily Chinese-language newspaper published in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pa ...
group, which also owns
China Television China Television Company, Ltd. (CTV; ) (Formerly called Taiwan Daytime TV (TDT) in 1969-1975) is a television broadcasting company based in Taipei, Taiwan. It was established on September 3, 1968, by the then-ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) of ...
(CTV).


History

Founded in 1994, CTi TV was originally called the Chinese Television Network (CTN; ). CTN had two main channels, Chung Tien () and Da Di (). On January 30, 1997, ownership switched from
Yu Pun-hoi Yu Pun-hoi (; born 1958), commonly known as P H Yu, is a Hong Kong entrepreneur in the information technology, cinema, culture and media industries. He is the Chairman of the Board and largest shareholder of Hong Kong-listed Nan Hai Corporation ...
(于品海), the current chairman of Nan Hai Corporation Limited (南海控股有限公司), to the
Koos Group The Koos Group (KGI; ) is a Taiwan-based pan-Asian business group involved in a vast range of industries, which include banking, manufacturing, petrochemicals, electronics, leasing, cement, financial services, hospitality, real estate, private equit ...
. In 2000, ownership changed once again from KG Group to the Wisdom Group (象山集團), which, at the time, also operated
China Television China Television Company, Ltd. (CTV; ) (Formerly called Taiwan Daytime TV (TDT) in 1969-1975) is a television broadcasting company based in Taipei, Taiwan. It was established on September 3, 1968, by the then-ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) of ...
(CTV). Hsiang Shan merged CTN with CTV Satellite to form Power TV (). As part of Power TV, CTV Satellite became Chung T'ien Entertainment, while CTN's Chung Tien split up into Power TV News () and Power TV Variety (). Power News eventually changed its name to Chung T'ien Information, which then became Chung T'ien Main in January 2004. After the He Hsin-Hsiang Shan ownership transfer, Da Di was granted some degree of autonomy as Da Di Television; however, Da Di eventually became part of
Videoland Television Network Videoland Television Network () is a cable television network program provider in Taiwan, founded in 1983 by Koos Group. Videoland is one of Taiwan's major satellite television providers, offering seven channels of programming. Videoland is also s ...
, and changed its name to the Videoland Drama Channel. In June 2002, ownership of Power TV changed once again from Hsiang Shan to the
China Times The ''China Times'' (, abbr. ) is a daily Chinese-language newspaper published in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pa ...
; Power TV changed its name to present-day Chung T'ien Television (CTi TV). In April 2019, ''
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'' reported that CTi-TV parent company received millions in subsidies from the
Chinese government The Government of the People's Republic of China () is an authoritarian political system in the People's Republic of China under the exclusive political leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It consists of legislative, executive, mili ...
. In November 2019,
Wang Liqiang Wang Liqiang (), or William Wang, is a Chinese defector to Australia and self-proclaimed former spy. In November 2019, Wang sought political asylum in Australia, claiming to be a spy who was involved in the People's Republic of China's interven ...
, a self-proclaimed PRC spy who defected to
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, claimed that CTi TV had received Chinese funding in return for airing stories unfavorable of the Taiwanese government. The Want Want China Times Group denied these allegations. On 22 April 2019, during a news report on the last episode of Taiwanese television drama, ''The World Between Us'', it was discovered CTi TV used a pirated source of the drama during the report while putting a watermark claiming to be recorded from
Public Television Service Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation (PTS Foundation/Public Television Service Foundation, ), also called Public Television Service (PTS, ), is the first independent public broadcasting institution in Taiwan, which broadcasts the Public Te ...
, who broadcast the drama. In November 2020, the
National Communications Commission The National Communications Commission (NCC; ) is an independent statutory agency of Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) responsible for regulating the development of the telecommunication and broadcasting industries, promoting compe ...
(NCC) announced that it would not renew CTi TV's broadcast license for
CTi News CTi News () is a Taiwanese 24-hour online news outlet and, until December 2020, cable television channel, operated by Chung T'ien Television. CTi News was known for its support of Kuomintang politician Han Kuo-yu, who attracted a huge wave of sup ...
as it found multiple violations against the network for bias and
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. CTi News ended its final cable broadcast at 23:59 on December 11, 2020. however, CTi News continues to broadcast on its YouTube channel and its own app, while its sister channels
CTi International CTi International () is a Taiwanese pay television channel operated by Chung T'ien Television directed towards the Chinese diaspora abroad. It is available in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America North America is ...
(abroad only),
CTi Entertainment CTi Entertainment () is a satellite cable channel operated by Chung T'ien Television in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern ...
and
CTi Variety CTi Variety () is a satellite cable channel operated by Chung T'ien Television in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Paci ...
also continues to broadcast on cable and satellite. CTi TV had also been fined a total of NT$11.53 million (US$400,932) for 25 breaches of media regulations between 2014 and 2020.


Incidents

In the 2012 Anti-Media Monopoly campaign,
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's post graduate Lin Ting An invited
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professor,
Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...
, an American linguist, philosopher and activist, to hold a placard with the campaign slogan in Chinese, loosely translated as ''Against media monopoly, refusing Chinese manipulation, protecting free press, I am in _ _ protecting Taiwan''. As Chomsky is not literate in Mandarin, this resulted in Want Want China Times group and Chinese academics to question was Chomsky misled. Lin subsequently explained that she had explained her position and had translated the words to him. CTi TV sent a reporter to interview Chomsky, Chomsky said that he would not have taken the photo if he knew the placard included Anti-China wording and the incident was due to a misunderstanding and his illiteracy in Chinese. CTi TV subsequently released the interview leaving out the translation of "I'm against media monopoly and I'm in favor of free press" and not providing any subtitles. After the public did a translation of Chomsky's interview and publicised the mistranslation and lack of subtitles, more than 200 complaints were filed against CTi TV with the NCC. On the next day, CTi TV apologised and replayed the interview with the correct translation and subtitles. In 2012, CTi TV reported that a member of public brought fries from MacDonald's into a cinema hall operated by
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and was rejected entry and allegedly had his food thrown away by their staff.
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' public relations (PR) manager refuted the events, noting that CTi TV has named the company wrongly (Vie Show Cinema was formerly known as Warner Village Cinemas till 2004) and that their reporter has lied to him asking for an interview based on that the package contains bread instead of fries. The PR manager promised to reject any interview requests from CTi TV in the future. In 2013, when former United Kingdom's prime minister
Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. S ...
died, CTi TV reported her death on its 8pm news segment with a video of United Kingdom's Queen
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. CTi TV made an urgent change to its news segment and later apologized on both their channel and website. In July 2019, CTi TV was fined NTD 1.6 million by the NCC for mis-reporting that it was fined NTD 1 million for reporting that the Chinese embassy in Japan dispatches stranded Chineses at
Kansai International Airport Kansai International Airport ( ja, 関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) commonly known as is the primary international airport in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and K ...
in
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, Japan during
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in 2018. The rescue operations were reported by other new channels. NCC clarified that the NTD 1 million consisted of 2 parts, NTD $600,000 fine for reporting that Taipei Representative to Singapore, Francis Liang, was monitoring
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mayor
Han Kuo-yu Daniel Han Kuo-yu (; born 17 June 1957) is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2002, representing a portion of Taipei County for three terms. He later became general manager of Taipei Agricultural Produc ...
during his February visit to Singapore and NTD $400,000 fine for a report about "auspicious clouds" during Han's campaign in 2018. In January 2020, they were fined NT$600,000 (US$20,033) for broadcasting a false statement by KMT Tainan City Councilor Hsieh Lung-chieh. The regulator found that CTi TV's journalist had failed to question or ask for evidence at the time and that CTi TV had failed to do any fact verification regarding the statement before broadcasting it.


Channels

Since the closure of
CTi News CTi News () is a Taiwanese 24-hour online news outlet and, until December 2020, cable television channel, operated by Chung T'ien Television. CTi News was known for its support of Kuomintang politician Han Kuo-yu, who attracted a huge wave of sup ...
, CTI TV offers two main channels, as well as an International channel for viewers living outside of the island of Taiwan. *
CTi Variety CTi Variety () is a satellite cable channel operated by Chung T'ien Television in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Paci ...
*
CTi Entertainment CTi Entertainment () is a satellite cable channel operated by Chung T'ien Television in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern ...
*
CTi International CTi International () is a Taiwanese pay television channel operated by Chung T'ien Television directed towards the Chinese diaspora abroad. It is available in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America North America is ...
(Abroad only)


See also

*
List of Taiwanese television series Here is a partial list of Taiwanese television shows: News * ''CTS News'' (華視新聞) - CTS * ''CTV News'' (中視新聞) - CTV * ''FTV News'' (民視新聞) - FTV * ''PTS News'' (公視新聞) - PTS * ''TTV News'' (台視新聞) - TTV S ...


Logos

Image:CTN logo.jpg, 1994 - 1999 (CTN) Image:CTi logo.jpg, 2002–present


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chung T'ien Television Television stations in Taiwan Chinese-language television stations Television channels and stations established in 1994 1994 establishments in Taiwan Companies based in Taipei