Unlike many cable television operators in other countries that support two-way modes, China's cable television systems operate in a one-way mode (download only, no upload).Ĭable television was introduced to Hong Kong in 1957 when Rediffusion Television (predecessor to Asia Television) began transmissions as Hong Kong's first television station. Mainland China had more than 44.5 million digital cable television users in 2008.
In Shenzhen, selected foreign channels such as CNN International or HBO are also available with a fee. Currently, TVB Jade and TVB Pearl are the only terrestrial channels which are carried by the Guangdong Cable Network. Guangdong Province is the only area where channels from Hong Kong can be carried legally. Phoenix Television has the widest carriage under this rule. An extremely small number of compounds with many foreign residents and/or tourists (for example, five-star hotels in Beijing) will also carry selected channels from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West. Individual compounds (hotels, housing estates, etc.) often add a request channel showing karaoke music videos and animations. They may also carry a local channel for a particular sub-provincial municipality, prefecture or county. The remaining slots carry the main channels from several other province-level stations, and may carry additional channels from metropolitan stations such as BTV and Shanghai Media Group. Cable systems in China usually carry all the CCTV channels in Mandarin, along with all the channels of municipal, provincial or regional networks in question (some examples of such stations are listed below). Cable television is the most common transmission method in all urban areas of mainland China – television aerials are an extremely rare sight.
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