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China Central Television, Foreign Language Program of

2011· other· en· W4231959529 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John Jirik, Xiaoping Li

Bibliographic record

VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Communication · 2011
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicChina's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChinaMandarin ChineseService (business)Government (linguistics)Political scienceLaunchedAdvertisingBusinessEngineeringLinguisticsLaw

Abstract

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China Central Television (CCTV) is the national broadcaster of the People's Republic of China (PRC) (→ China Central Television Channel 9 (CCTV‐9); China: Media System). In 2010, CCTV broadcast globally to target markets via satellite and cable in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, and Spanish (→ Satellite Television; Cable Television). CCTV's non‐English and non‐Chinese foreign language services are closely related to each other and to the original foreign language service in English. That service was launched in 1986 as English News , a daily bulletin translated from CCTV's national nightly news, Xinwen Lianbo (Liu 2006). For the next eighteen years, the English language service was CCTV's only non‐Chinese broadcast intended for foreigners. However, an ambitious government project launched in 2001 to promote the global image of the People's Republic of China (PRC) resulted in an expansion of CCTV's overseas broadcasts. CCTV launched a joint French and Spanish service on October 1, 2004. The broadcaster split that service into separate French and Spanish channels on October 1, 2007. CCTV added an Arabic channel on July 25, 2009, and launched its Russian service on September 10, 2009. CCTV‐F (French), CCTV‐E (Spanish), CCTV (Arabic) and CCTV (Russian) are based on a common programming template originally derived from CCTV‐9 (English, now broadcast as CCTV‐News). The shared template resulted from the common origins of the services within CCTV's Overseas Service Center (OSC), which also ran a Mandarin language broadcast oriented to Chinese and Chinese speakers abroad. Senior personnel for these channels primarily were drawn from within the ranks of administrators, journalists, and technicians already working at the OSC. As of November 2010, all of CCTV's foreign language overseas channels had a rotation of Chinese and foreign news anchors and program hosts, the latter from the following countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia (Arabic); Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Zimbabwe (English); Belgium, France (French); Belarus, Russia, Ukraine (Russian); and Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Spain (Spanish).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.672
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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