Henan Television
Henan Television, (Chinese: 河南电视台) commonly abbreviated as HNTV, a provincial television broadcaster is headquartered in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.
Because the logo of Henan Television resembles an elephant, viewers refer to it as "Elephant Television", and the official website of Henan Television Channel is called "Elephant Network".[1]
Foundation
Henan Television conducted a trial broadcast on September 10, 1969, and the first program officially began airing on October 1 of the same year, limited to weekly Wednesdays and Saturdays.[2] The station operated on VHF channel 9.[3] On May 15, 1970, the startion started rebroadcasting programs from Beijing Television, even after it was renamed to the current CCTV in 1978. Henan Television launched its second channel on September 15, 1980, where all of the CCTV broadcasts moved there. Color programming did not start until September 1983. During the 80s, Henan Television produced a large number of TV dramas, TV sketches and special cultural programs, some of which even went on to win national television awards.[4]
Network
Now Henan Television (HNTV) has a network of 15 channels (ten for free, five for pay-vision) broadcasting different programmes.[5]
References
- ^ Wen Dao's Historical View (2019-11-27). "河南没有大象，为什么简称却是"豫",电视台还用大象做标志？" [Henan doesn't have elephants, why is it abbreviated as "Yu"? television system still use elephants as symbols?]. www.toutiao.com. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
现在的河南电视台的台标就是一个大象的形象，又叫"大象台"，可见河南人对大象的喜爱。
- ^ tkadmin (2023-12-15). "河南电视台频道开播多少年了" [How many years has Henan TV channel been broadcasting]. www.google.com. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ Fukunaga, Mitsuhiro. "TV list on mainland China". TV-FM DX Forum. Archived from the original on 25 February 2005.
- ^ 河南年鉴编辑部. 《河南年鉴1984-2011年》 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2012-12-11. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
- ^ 河南电视台简介 (in Chinese). 大象网. 2012-12-07. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29.