China Central Television

China Central Television or Chinese Central Television (simplified Chinese: 中国中央电视台; traditional Chinese: 中國中央電視臺), commonly abbreviated as CCTV (simplified Chinese: 央视; traditional Chinese: 央視), is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers. Most of its programmes are a mixture of documentary, comedy, entertainment and drama, the majority of which consists of Chinese soap operas and entertainment. This station is one of the official mouthpieces of the Chinese government, and reports directly to high-level officials in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Central Propaganda Department.