China Television
| Company type | Television network, Satellite television and Cable television | ||||||||||||
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| Industry | Television broadcasting | ||||||||||||
| Founded | September 3, 1968 | ||||||||||||
| Headquarters | Taipei, | ||||||||||||
| Products | Television content, television programming | ||||||||||||
| Parent | Want Want China Times | ||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中國電視公司 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中国电视公司 | ||||||||||||
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| Website | www.ctv.com.tw | ||||||||||||
China Television Company, Ltd. (CTV), formerly called Taiwan Daytime TV (TDT) from 1969 to 1975, is a television broadcasting company based in Taipei, Taiwan. It was established on September 3, 1968 by the then-ruling Kuomintang (KMT). 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. CTV was the first television channel to broadcast full colour television service to the whole island.