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This schedule accommodates Chinese people abroad to be able to watch the same programs that mainland Chinese people watch on a similar daylight schedule. Particularly, week-long programs can pre-empt regularly scheduled broadcasts like the following events: CCTV-4 had extensive coverage of Hong Kong s return to China in 1997.It was not until later on July 1, 2007 that the first breaking news of the bombings even appeared in the news more than 24 hours after the major incidents occurred. China Central Television (CCTV) • China Education Television (CETV) Province: Chongqing Television (CQTV) • Fujian Television (FJTV) • Guangdong TV (GDTV) • Southern Television Guangdong (TVS) • Hebei Television (HEBTV) • Hunan Satellite Television (HTV) • Xinjiang Television Station (XJTV) . In May 2007, there was one article reviewed which explained some problems relating to local policies (the one that affected Milan s Chinatown ), where they said the local laws were trying to prohibit the display of Oriental signs as this took away from the local culture. In February 2007, there was a complete documentary done on the New York Police Department on how they helped captured the African American who robbed a local Chinese citizen during the Chinese New Year festival late that evening.
Interestingly enough, when there is coverage around the NBA, it is usually around Yao Ming himself as opposed to around the Houston Rockets or any other team in the league. There has also been increasing coverage with other high profile Chinese basketball players such as Wang Zhi Zhi, formerly of the Dallas Mavericks and Yi Jianlian, a 2009 NBA draft inductee to the Milwaukee Bucks and more recently to the New Jersey Nets. The programs featured included entertainment, fireworks, and other celebrations broadcast live on the week of June 25, 2007 to July 1, 2007.
(Source: CCTV 4 in February 2007) Lately there has been increasing attention paid to American Born Chinese who have high achievements such as a report done in May 2007 on the new Miss Southern California, a Chinese-American mayor in New Jersey, and a Chinese police officer who was promoted as the chief of police in San Francisco. CCTV-4 features special programs when China celebrates particularly significant events in its history. It should be noted that the program schedules do not adjust according to daylight saving time, so programs will either appear 1 hour ahead or 1 hour behind around the changeover in March and November on the New York Time Zone (纽约时间) (otherwise known as Eastern Standard/Daylight Time). As Yao Ming grows more influential in the National Basketball Association, this channel has been doing many interviews with him about his upbringing and how he has adjusted to life in the United States as he plays for the Houston Rockets.
CCTV-4 (Chinese: 中国中央电视台中文国际频道 Zhōngguó zhōngyāng diànshìtái zhōngwén guójì píndào), is the international broadcast for CCTV International in the Mandarin language. It is one of five CCTV channels that broadcasts outside of China, the other four being CCTV-9, CCTV-E, CCTV-F and CCTV-العربية. This channel contains a variety of programs including documentaries, music, news, dramas, sports, and cartoons. CCTV-4 can also be watched in the United States on DirecTV Satellite channel 454, on Dish Network Satellite channel 582, Verizon FIOS channel 1750 and some US cable systems.
There was also extensive coverage on their family backgrounds as well. There has also been much focus on the news from Chinatown newspapers throughout the world, such as New York s World Journal, London, Paris, France, and Milan, Italy. As a result, many programs that would have normally been broadcast had been pre-empted.
Also, it can be watched streaming over the Internet directly from CCTV-4 s website. In 2007, CCTV-4 launched 3 different timeshifted feeds: one for China Standard Time, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and Eastern Standard Time (EST). Outside news such as the 2007 London car bombs and the 2007 Glasgow International Airport bombings, commonly reported on CNN had actually been pre-empted as well.
