Welcome to CGTN—the media crossroads where news and views about the world’s two largest national economies intersect and sometimes collide.

Launched on February 6, 2012 as CCTV America, on December 31, 2016 CCTV News became CGTN, China Global Television Network.

CGTN America is the U.S. production and broadcast arm of CGTN News. The D.C. broadcast center employs nearly 160 people. It also services all Chinese language channels with U.S. news coverage.

‘CGTN News’ is a global English language, 24 x 7 news and current affairs channel. It is one of 42 television channels produced and broadcast by China Central Television (CCTV), the world’s largest broadcaster with a reach of more than 1.2 billion people.

A global news and documentary channel in English, CGTN can be seen in more than 140 million homes across more than 100 countries and territories.

Through cable and satellite, it is in nearly 30 million households in the United States.

In Asia, the channel has large audiences on the Chinese mainland and is on multiple platforms in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. In Europe, CGTN is available to 6.6 million SKY Digital subscribers in the United Kingdom/ Ireland, and 1.2m TPS subscribers in France.

The award-winning channel aims to provide alternative global coverage with a Chinese perspective.

CCTV News was launched in Beijing in April 2010. The channel is an outgrowth of the general interest English Channel 9 founded in September 2000. It has grown steadily with an increasing number of broadcast hours produced outside China.

CGTN America produces six hours of daily content out of Washington, D.C. : news, business, talk, documentary and current affairs programming. Programming originates from Washington, New York, and Los Angeles.

CGTN America focuses on in depth coverage of developments in both North and South America. It fields a dozen correspondents in Central and South America; more than any other English language network. Its talk programming attracts distinguished guests to speak on global issues from the world of politics, business, and entertainment.

CGTN America programming launched from Washington on February 6, 2012 and has been steadily expanding.