On 22 September 2007, CCTV officially announced the construction of an expanded Wenchang Satellite Launch Center has been approved by the State Council and the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China after decades of postpone due to political concerns.

The video carrier is demodulated to give a composite video signal ; this contains luminance, chrominance and synchronization signals ; this is identical to the video signal format used by analog video devices such as VCRs or CCTV cameras.

Some reports suggest Haznawi was pulled aside for screening while others claim there is no record of whether any of the four were screened ; the lack of CCTV cameras at the time has compounded the problem.

They must also fulfill the requirement of Ministry of Housing and Local Government, where the pawn counter is not higher than 4 feet, bullet-proof and stainless steeled counters, stainless steeled doors, strong rooms with automatic locks, safes, equipped with fully computerized system, CCTV, Alarm and Pawnbroker Insurance.

OMA Beijing: In Asia, Koolhaas is working with his team on the office ’ s largest project to date, the 575, 000 m2 China Central Television Headquarters ( CCTV ) and Television Cultural Center ( TVCC ), currently under construction in Beijing and due for completion in 2008.

Although other forms such as closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) are in use, the most common usage of the medium is for broadcast television, which was modeled on the existing radio broadcasting systems developed in the 1920s, and uses high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the television signal to individual TV receivers.

Although the term closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) is common, it is quickly becoming outdated as more video systems lose the closed circuit for signal transmission and are instead transmitting on computer networks.

China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the predominant state television broadcaster in mainland China.

CCTV has a network of 22 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers.

A recent study done by the observer of Chinese film and television, Ying Zhu, suggests that “ CCTV is full of serious-minded creators who regularly experience bouts of self-doubt, philosophical ambivalence, and in some cases, clinical depression .” During her extensive interviews with key CCTV players, Zhu notes that “ Certain common themes, about ideals distorted or altogether thwarted by commercial and political pressure, emerged .”

* In 2011, new CCTV head Zhanfan " was found to have proclaimed in July January, both before the CCTV appointment in November that journalists ’ foremost responsibility is to ' be a good mouthpiece '" ( 当好喉舌工具 ).

Li said the claim is " slander " and CCTV made no comment.

CCTV produces its own news broadcasts three times a day and is the country's most powerful and prolific television program producer.

Focus, first introduced in 1994, is a popular programme on CCTV.

The CCTV New Year's Gala ()— a yearly special program for the Chinese New Year — is the most-watched CCTV programme.

As content becomes more diversified, there have been concerns about the audience share, as CCTV is losing out to cable, satellite and regional networks.

Closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

Videotelephony is seldom called " CCTV " but the use of video in distance education, where it is an important tool, is often so called.

For example, in his design for the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing ( 2009 ), Koolhaas did not opt for the stereotypical skyscraper, often used to symbolise and landmark such government enterprises, but instead designed a series of volumes which not only tie together the numerous departments onto the nebulous site, but also introduced routes ( again, the concept of cross-programming ) for the general public through the site, allowing them some degree of access to the production procedure.

Critics often dub CCTV as " Big Brother surveillance ", a reference to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which featured a two-way telescreen in every home through which The Party would monitor the populace.

Something close to a realization of Bentham's vision only became possible through twentieth-century technological developments – notably closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) – but these eliminated the need for a specific architectural framework.

* The BBC comedy programme Doubletake made extensive use of look-alikes playing their doubles in apparently embarrassing situations, seen through CCTV cameras and amateur video, using distance shots and shaky camera-work to disguise the true identity of those being filmed.

As of Feb 2010, many larger cities in the UK now have CCTV in which if an operator spots anything illegal or troubling, they are able to speak through the cameras via loudspeaker into the street, and some also have microphones to allow them to hear what the public are saying.

Following his previous work on language programs such as " Travel In Chinese " for CCTV International, Dashan is currently developing programs to teach both English and Chinese for distribution online through video sharing sites such as Youku.

The voice, who refers to himself as the Director, promises Cash his freedom, but only if Cash follows his instructions: namely slaughtering his way through streets populated by a street gang calling themselves " The Hoods ", all being filmed using CCTV.

The site is well known for its resident breeding pair of peregrine falcons, which are protected during the breeding season by Operation Peregrine, providing security for the birds and a chance for the public to view the birds through scopes and CCTV.

In 2010 Hamlet Court Road went through further regeneration, receiving an update with new planters, modern street furniture, wider pavements, new crossing points, CCTV, etc.

Prior to the co-production, Sesame Street's 12th season had been dubbed into Mandarin in 1981 and distributed through CCTV.

It made extensive use of celebrity look-alikes playing their doubles in apparently embarrassing situations, seen through CCTV cameras and amateur video, using distance shots and shaky camera-work to disguise the true identity of those being filmed.

In this regard, CCTV News will not restrict the origin of its employees and choose to build its unique identity through its programming .”

However, these plans had to be abandoned following the Hillsborough disaster and the subsequent Taylor Report, but he eventually piloted the Football Spectators Bill through Parliament to address football hooliganism which included the introduction of CCTV cameras in all 92 League Grounds and a range of other measures to tackle hooliganism.

All stops have disabled access, raised paving, CCTV, a Passenger Help Point, a Passenger Information Display ( PID ), litter bins, a ticket machine, a noticeboard and lamp-posts, and most also have seats and a shelter.

A more open question is whether most CCTV is cost-effective.

Gill and Spring did a cost-benefit analysis of CCTV in crime prevention that showed little monetary saving with the installation of CCTV as most of the crimes prevented resulted in little monetary loss.

CCTV produces its own news broadcasts three times a day and is the country's most powerful and prolific television program producer.

Even if CCTV is the most powerful network of mainland China, it has only about 30 % of audience share all over the national territory.

However, most local and national / international news footages are usually sourced from the mainstream networks ( in general Global TV for the former, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for the latter ), with footages from the Greater China region provided by China Central Television ( CCTV ) in mainland China, TVB in Hong Kong, and various sources in Taiwan.

Although news reform has been a prominent feature of CCTV networks, the Evening News has remained relatively the same since its first appearance in the early 1980s.

A community based CCTV monitoring scheme for Ballyfermot was launched in early 2003.

In early 2009 Dashan made a return to the CCTV New Year's Gala to perform xiangsheng.

A more advanced form of CCTV, utilizing Digital Video Recorders ( DVRs ), provides recording for possibly many years, with a variety of quality and performance options and extra features ( such as motion-detection and email alerts ).

With the addition of fixed cameras for the Active Traffic Management system, the number of cameras on the Highways Agency's CCTV network is likely to increase significantly over the next few years.

Price also records Edwards ' sister Rachel as having " hit out at police handling " after CCTV footage was analyzed two years after the disappearance.

Newmarket's shopping area's wireless CCTV system, a system cooperatively operated by the police and the Newmarket Business Association, has been described as " never having been done on this scale in a New Zealand town centre ", and was credited partly for significant falls of some sorts of crime in Newmarket in recent ( 2009 ) years.

In the past few years, students of Donghua have won awards and prizes in such national and international competitions including the International Collegiate Programming Contest, American Mathematical Contest in Modeling ( MCM ), Challenge Cup Chinese Collegiate Business Plan Competition, National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest and CCTV Cup National Model Contest.

The list of services to be monitored at a Central Station has expanded over the past few years to include: Access Control ; CCTV Monitoring ; Environmental Monitoring ; Intrusion Alarm Monitoring ; Fire Alarm & Sprinkler Monitoring ; Critical Condition Monitoring ; Medical Response Monitoring ; Elevator Telephone Monitoring ; Hold-Up or Panic Alarm Monitoring ; Duress Monitoring ; Auto Dialer tests ; Open & Close Signal Supervision & Reporting ; Exception Reports ; and PIN or Passcode Management.

The Chinese staff at CCTV News range in experience from interns to media professionals with years in the business.