CGTN Documentary

CGTN Documentary
TypeState media
CountryChina
Broadcast areaWorldwide
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 576i/480i for the SD feed)
Ownership
OwnerChina Central Television
History
Launched1 January 2011; 13 years ago (2011-01-01)
Former namesCCTV-9 Documentary
(2011 - 2016)
Links
Websitewww.cgtn.com/channel/documentary Edit this at Wikidata
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital TV
Hong Kong
Channel 34 (HD)
Digital TV
(Macau)
Channel 74
DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa)Channel 448
Zuku TV (Kenya)Channel 413
Streaming media
CGTN Documentarywww.cgtn.com/channel/documentary Edit this at Wikidata

CGTN Documentary (formerly CCTV-9 Documentary) is a state-run English-language documentary channel operated by the China Global Television Network (CGTN) group, owned by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). It broadcasts documentaries in the English language, and is China's first state-level English-language documentary channel to broadcast globally.

It used to share the "CCTV-9" name with its sister documentary channel in Mandarin Chinese. The channel has also been known to carry some Mandarin-language programmes with English subtitles; it broadcasts new programming between 7:00pm and 11:00pm Beijing time, and repeats archival programming at other times.[citation needed]