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Chung T'ien Television

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Chung T'ien Television
TypeNationwide cable TV network
BrandingCTi
Country
Republic of China
First air date
1994 (1994)（30 years, 57 days）
AvailabilityTaiwan
OwnerWant Want China Times Group
Official website
www.ctitv.com.tw
Chung T'ien Television
Traditional Chinese中天電視
Simplified Chinese中天电视
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngtiān Diànshì
Wade–GilesChung¹-tʻien¹ Tien⁴-shih⁴
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTiong-thiⁿ-tiān-sī

Chung T'ien Television (CTi TV; Chinese: 中天電視), is a nationwide cable TV network based in Taiwan. It belongs to Want Want China Times group, which also owns China Television (CTV).

History

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Founded in 1994, CTi TV was originally called the Chinese Television Network (CTN; Chinese: 傳訊電視). CTN had two main channels, Chung Tien (Chinese: 中天頻道) and Da Di (Chinese: 大地頻道). On January 30, 1997, ownership switched from Yu Pun-hoi (于品海), the current chairman of Nan Hai Corporation Limited (南海控股有限公司), to the Koos Group.[citation needed]

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 (CTV).[citation needed] Hsiang Shan merged CTN with CTV Satellite to form Power TV (Chinese: 勁道數位電視). As part of Power TV, CTV Satellite became Chung T'ien Entertainment, while CTN's Chung Tien split up into Power TV News (Chinese: 中天新聞臺) and Power TV Variety (Chinese: 勁報電視臺). 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, and changed its name to the Videoland Drama Channel.[citation needed] In June 2002, ownership of Power TV changed once again from Hsiang Shan to the China Times; Power TV changed its name to present-day Chung T'ien Television (CTi TV).[citation needed]

In April 2019, The Nikkei reported that CTi-TV parent company received millions in subsidies from the Chinese government.[1] In November 2019, Wang Liqiang, a self-proclaimed PRC spy who defected to Australia, claimed that CTi TV had received Chinese funding in return for airing stories unfavorable of the Taiwanese government.[2] The Want Want China Times Group denied these allegations.[2]

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, who broadcast the drama.[3]

In November 2020, the National Communications Commission (NCC) announced that it would not renew CTi TV's broadcast license for CTi News as it found multiple violations against the network for bias and disinformation.[4][5][6] CTi News ended its final cable broadcast at 23:59 on December 11, 2020.[7] however, CTi News continues to broadcast on its YouTube channel and its own app, while its sister channels CTi International (abroad only), CTi Entertainment and CTi Variety also continues to broadcast on cable and satellite.[8] 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.[6] The Kuomintang has continued to press for renewal of its broadcast license.[9]

Incidents

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In the 2012 Anti-Media Monopoly campaign, National Yang-Ming University's post graduate Lin Ting An invited Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Noam Chomsky, 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.[10]

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.[11] 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.[12] 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.[13] On the next day, CTi TV apologised and replayed the interview with the correct translation and subtitles.[14][15]

In 2012, CTi TV reported that a member of public brought fries from MacDonald's into a cinema hall operated by Warner Village Cinemas and was rejected entry and allegedly had his food thrown away by their staff. Vieshow Cinemas' public relations (PR) manager refuted the events, noting that CTi TV has named the company wrongly (Vieshow 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.[16]

In 2013, when former United Kingdom's prime minister Margaret Thatcher died, CTi TV reported her death on its 8pm news segment with a video of United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II.[17][18] CTi TV made an urgent change to its news segment and later apologized on both their channel and website.[17]

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 in Osaka, Japan during Typhoon Jebi 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 Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu during his February visit to Singapore and NTD $400,000 fine for a report about "auspicious clouds" during Han's campaign in 2018.[19]

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.[20]

In 2023, CTi was accused of spreading anti-American disinformation about a supposed U.S. "plan to destroy Taiwan."[21][9]

Channels

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CTiTV building in Taipei City

Since the closure of CTi News, CTI TV offers two main channels, as well as an International channel for viewers living outside of the island of Taiwan.

See also

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Logos

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  • 1994 - 1999 (CTN)
    1994 - 1999 (CTN)
  • 2002–present
    2002–present

References

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  1. ^ Kawase, Kenji (April 30, 2019). "Chinese subsidies for Foxconn and Want Want spark outcry in Taiwan". The Nikkei. Archived from the original on April 27, 2020. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Strong, Matthew (23 November 2019). "Taiwan TV stations reject defector's allegations of China funding". Taiwan TV stations reject defector's allegations of China funding. Taiwan News. Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  3. ^ 自由時報電子報 (2019-04-22). "好意思？中天誆稱「翻攝公視」 播《與惡》新聞竟用盜版畫面 - 自由娛樂". 自由時報電子報 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  4. ^ Davidson, Helen (2020-11-18). "Pro-China TV station in Taiwan ordered off air over disinformation". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2024-07-11. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  5. ^ "NCC decides to shut down CTiTV news station, denies license renewal". Focus Taiwan CNA. Archived from the original on 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  6. ^ a b "NCC rejects CTi News' license renewal". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  7. ^ "Taiwanese pro-Beijing television news channel taken off air". 12 December 2020. Archived from the original on 13 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  8. ^ 【中天亞洲台轉播】中天新聞52台停播倒數活動 2020-12-12 (in Chinese). JY TV YouTube Channel. Dec 12, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-01-18. Retrieved Dec 12, 2020.
  9. ^ a b Chau, Thompson (July 5, 2024). "Taiwan opposition wields new powers in bid to reshape media landscape". Nikkei Asia. Archived from the original on 2024-07-05. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  10. ^ "自由電子報 - 新聞圖片 - MIT學者被誤導支持反媒壟?／研究生秀郵件駁澳門學者". 自由電子報 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  11. ^ "Chomsky denies being deceived in media dispute - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. 2013-02-02. Archived from the original on 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  12. ^ 2013-02-02 中天新聞獨家示範「雞同鴨講」（新增字幕更正）, 3 February 2013, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2021-09-15
  13. ^ "被投訴200次 NCC要求中天說明反壟斷新聞「字幕疏失」 | 頭條新聞 | NOWnews 今日新聞網" (in Chinese). 2013-02-09. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  14. ^ 中天新聞》若知有「反中」 喬姆斯基：不會答應拍照, 4 February 2013, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2021-09-15
  15. ^ "自由電子報 - 喬姆斯基喊反壟斷 中天新聞省略不翻譯" (in Chinese). 2013-02-08. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  16. ^ "不滿訪問被騙威秀公關放話封殺《中天》 | 即時新聞 | 20120607 | 蘋果日報" (in Traditional Chinese). 2012-06-08. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  17. ^ a b 自由時報電子報 (2013-04-09). "柴契爾誤植為英女王 中天新聞大烏龍 - 生活". 自由時報電子報 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  18. ^ 中天新聞錯把英國女王當柴契爾夫人, 8 April 2013, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2021-09-15
  19. ^ Shan, Shelley (25 July 2019). "NCC fines CtiTV NT$1.6m for fact-checking failures". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  20. ^ Shan, Shelley. "CtiTV News fined for airing false statement". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  21. ^ Horton, Chris (2023-03-26). "'The Plan to Destroy Taiwan'". The Wire China. Archived from the original on 2024-04-17. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
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