CCTV-13


CCTV-13, formerly CCTV News, broadcasting across China since 2003, is the news channel of China Central Television and the biggest news channel on mainland China.

Content

CCTV News channel broadcasts live news reports every hour throughout the day, as well as current affairs programmes in the evening. Bulletins cover domestic and international events. The channel broadcasts exclusively in Mandarin Chinese. Viewers from across the Greater China region and that of the Chinese diaspora can watch the channel via satellite. From the midday newscast on 16 October 2019, all newscasts and in-depth programming, with the exceptions of Xinwen Lianbo and Focus Report, is broadcast in 16:9 and produced in high definition. Xinwen Lianbo and Focus Report made the HD switchover in 18 July 2020, along with the channel's HD feed available through satellite from the next day.

Programmes

Daily (in order of schedules, since 2009)