CCTV-5

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CCTV-Olympic (Chinese: 中国中央电视台奥运频道), also known as the Olympic Channel and 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.

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[edit] 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 well-known Chinese broadcaster Hu Ziwei accused her husband Zhang Bin, who is a famous sports anchor, of adultery on the air as documented on a You Tube 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.

[edit] Sports Coverage

CCTV-Olympic has extensive coverage of the following sports:

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ CCTV to launch Olympic Channel, retrieved on January 3, 2008
  2. ^ Hu Ziwei Embarrassing Her CCTV Sports Anchor Husband Zhang Bin, retrieved on January 3, 2008.
  3. ^ CCTV Gets Wrong Kind of PR, retrieved on January 6, 2008
  4. ^ Lust, Caution and the Olympics, retrieved on January 6, 2008
  5. ^ Chinese speaker for Olympics facing unfaithful accusation, retrieved on January 3, 2008
  6. ^ Scandal captured on YouTube, retrieved on January 3, 2008.
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