Daifu Channel (

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: 大富チャンネル), formerly CCTV-Daifu (CCTV大富), officially known as Chinese TV - Daifu Channel (中国テレビ★大富チャンネル), is the main channel of

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, a

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ese television company catering the Chinese diaspora in Japan. The channel airs

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's programming to the Japanese market.

History

Daifu Channel started broadcasting on July 1, 1998. The channel started as a partial calque of

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, the Chinese international channel, but had local inserts to cater the Chinese diaspora. The channel has been made available on

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since its inception. Its programming as of 2003 differed from CCTV-4, which at the time broadcast a single feed running on an 8-hour wheel due to timezone differences. CCTV-Daifu started airing a localized program, ''Japan News'' (日本新闻), in 2002, modelled after CCTV-4's ''China News''. In 2017, for the 45th anniversary of Japan's normalization of diplomatic ties with the PRC, it produced ''China Story'' (中国故事), which also made it to

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's documentary slot. On November 1, 2022, CCTV-Daifu was simply renamed Daifu Channel. The programming mix (CCTV programs and local productions) remained unchanged but the number of subtitled programs was reduced to mainly dramas and primetime news; while other slots which were used for subtitled programming were reconfigured for an all-Chinese format (with no Japanese subtitles). On January 31, 2023, Hikari TV removed the channel.

References

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