CCTV-14

CCTV-14 少儿

Country	China
Broadcast area	China
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	China Central Television
History
Launched	28 December 2003
Former names	CCTV-Children
Links
Website	CCTV-14
Availability
Terrestrial
Cable TV (Hong Kong)	Channel 14 (SD) Channel 514 (HD)
Streaming media
CCTV program website	CCTV-14

CCTV-14 is a Chinese free-to-air television channel that was launched on 28 December 2003 and is owned by the China Central Television. It airs animated films and series as well as kids game shows and other young-oriented programmes, including The Beachbuds, FriendZSpace, Super Wings, Kung Fu Wa, 100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone, Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom, Willa's Wild Life, and Octonauts.

Before its launch, CCTV children's programs were broadcast on CCTV-7.

History

Test transmissions of the channel were started on 8 December 2003. Its first broadcast was made on 10 December 2003 with a duration of 16 hours. The channel was made available on UHF channel 33 in the Beijing area; most of the other CCTV channels (except CCTV-1 and CCTV-2) were only available on cable and satellite television at the time.^[1] CCTV-14 was formally launched on 28 December 2003 as CCTV-Children and was split from CCTV-7. Starting 1 January 2011, the channel was rebranded as CCTV-14.

From 2013 onwards, CCTV-14 has carried CCTV New Year's Gala.

In August 2019, the channel produced an adapted version of The Selfish Giant, titled The Giants Garden, a live musical phenomenon with a cast of nearly 300 of Shanghai's top child actors. It was presented in English instead of Mandarin and broadcast to all of the People's Republic of China. The show was met with acclaim,^{[citation needed]} and aided in installing a yearly tradition of the channel producing a musical to be broadcast entirely in English with original music.

References

1. 2005 World Radio and Television Handbook, page 639