China Television

China Television Co.
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Type	Free-to-air nationwide TV
Branding	CTV
Country	Republic of China
First air date	1969-10-31
Availability	Republic of China
Founded	1968-09-03
Headquarters	Taipei, Republic of China
Official website	http://www.ctv.com.tw/

China Television Co. (CTV, simplified Chinese: 中国电视公司; traditional Chinese: 中國電視公司) was established on September 3 1968 by the then-ruling Nationalist Party of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The party owned the majority stake of the network. Trial broadcast started on October 9 1969 and the channel formally started broadcasting on October 31 the same year.

It was the first television channel to broadcast full colour television service to the whole island.

On August 9 1999, the channel was publicly listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange, becoming the first publicly listed broadcasting company on the island.

In 2006, due to effects borne by the media reform law in Taiwan requiring all political parties to divest their control in radio and television companies, 90% of CTV shares were sold to the China Times media group, effectively giving the station leeway to some of its satellite TV concerns, notably the Chung T'ien Television (CTi), one of major cable television programmers in Taiwan. Some CTV shows are now seen on CTi's two channels on cable.

It is currently the largest television channels on the island. Its shows consistently rated 2nd in all major time slots, and is home to Taiwan's most watched early evening newscast, the CTV News Global Report.

Through the years, China TV has enjoyed the best shows to offer such as, Hexalight Talent Show (Liu Deng Jiang), The Golden Show (Huang Jin Pai Dang), Flying to the Rainbow (Fei Shang Cai Hong, which hosted by Taiwan megastar, Fong Fei-fei. First aired on the CTV in 1984-85 and later to TTV in 1997), Happy 100 (Huan Le Yi Bai Dian) among others.

Current shows were shown are the popular Guess Guess Guess (Wo Cai Wo Cai Wo Cai Cai Cai), Variety Show Brothers (Zong Yi Da Ge Da), Go Go Jacky Show (Zhou Ri Ba Dian Dang).

China TV also shows the most classical martial arts dramas of all time through the years such as The Sacred Bow of Ling Mountain (Ling Shan Shen Jian), Return of the Condor Heroes, The Frontier Hero (Shen Zhou Xia Lu, also known as Condor Heroes II). It also shows the finest Asian dramas were shown such as NHK's "Oshin (Mandarin title as "A-Xing")", and "The Legend" from the MBC network of Korea starring Bae Yong-jun and Lee Ji-ah.

The China TV shows

Jing Jing (晶晶), the first TV serial in Taiwan. It was produced in 1969.

Happy Holiday (歡樂假期), the 19-year China TV variety show hosted be Mr Pao Kuo-liang (Bao Guoliang).

The Golden Show (黃金拍檔), the most popular Saturday night China TV show considered to be the most popular variety show of all time. Aired from 1984 to 1988. Hosted by Hsu Feng, Chang Fei, the late Ni Min-jan, Luo Chiang and Chien Chang.