CCTV5 Sports

CCTV-5 (Chinese: 中国中央电视台体育频道), also known as the Sports Channel, part of the China Central Television family of networks, is the main sports broadcaster in the People's Republic of China. CCTV-5 began broadcasting on 1 January 1995. CCTV-5 now broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. CCTV Sports Channel (CCTV5) is the earliest and largest professional sports channel established in China, which has the exclusive coverage right of many top sports events in the world. It was officially broadcast on January 1, 1995. It covers the whole country through the Asia-Pacific 1A satellite, with an average of more than 16 hours per day. CCTV sports channel from September 5, 2005 from the full-scale revision, the realization of 24-hour broadcast. The newly revised CCTV5 Sports Channel highlights the event, strengthens the news and improves the arrangement. On the basis of the original three sports news columns of "Good Morning China," "Sports News" and "Sports World," about two and a half hours of news columns are added and broadcast at 7 am and 24 pm respectively. In addition, the sports channel will increase the broadcasting of sports events and the replay of top international events, forming the two main lines of event broadcasting and news reporting style.