China Central Television: August 2007 Archives
Danwei is reporting that CCTV 2 is looking for foreigners who have in-depth knowledge of Chinese language, culture, and history. The post from Danwei is listed below:
Lucky 52 is a popular Chinese TV game show hosted by Li Yong, broadcast on CCTV 2 every Friday at 7:30pm.
The show is preparing an episode which will set three laowai against one another in a quiz about Chinese culture and language. Candidates must speak good Mandarin. Be prepared for the full blast CCTV experience, but it's a great opportunity to put yourself in front of an audience in the hundreds of millions.
Participants receive home appliances, electronics and possibly cash prizes, depending on how well they do in the quiz.
If you are interested please call Vivian on 1314 671 9935.
China Central Television's International Channel, CCTV 9, has been running regular recruiting advertisements for Olympic sports anchors.
The anchors must speak native-level English or close to it, and overseas Chinese are encouraged to apply. It's unclear how many positions are open, however it's assumed with the Olympics only a year away the sports department, which currently has 3-4 hosts, will need to be beefed up substantially.
You can send your resumes to sportsscene@cctv.com
As an aside, perhaps CCTV 9 should hire someone to update their Sports Scene website home page. All three anchors listed no longer work with the station.
She was one of the most popular anchors on CCTV 9 in Beijing, leading many to wonder where she went. Susan, who originally hails from Toronto, worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before embarking on her trip to China. She worked for a couple of years at CCTV 9 before being put through a very torturous phone interview with Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong. To her surprise, she won the job and began working as an anchor on Bloomberg last year.
China Media News recently ran into Susan at New Heights in Shanghai, where she has been sent to report on China's soaring stock market. She has now been moved to late afternoon anchoring shifts, which is a welcome change from the 3am wake-up calls she had previously. She also seems to be quite popular in her new position.
China Media News can attest to Susan's professionalism on Bloomberg, despite complaints from the makeup team at CCTV 9 that they do a better job with Susan's appearance!
Congratulations to Susan on her success.
There have been rumors of layoffs at CCTV for several weeks, and it looks like the hammer has finally fallen, according to IMDB news.
China Central Television has embarked on what is likely the biggest number of layoffs in television history. Japan's Kyodo News Service, citing unnamed CCTV employees, reported today (Wednesday) that the Chinese broadcaster plans to lay off 3,000 to 5,000 people, representing a third of its entire staff. The network, which operates 14 channels and claims to reach an audience of 900 million, reportedly plans to fire temps first, including part-time university students.
Rumors have run rampant as to the reasons behind the layoff. One such reason blames a government crackdown on state-run media following the fake cardboard baozi scare.
This is courtesy of the China Media Project (with a h/t to Imagethief):
In related news, CMP learned from sources within the Chinese media that China Central Television, responding to the cardboard bun story, recently issued an internal order that all non-contract journalists working with the network be dismissed by July 27. One CMP source referred to the move as the "massacre of the freelancers."
China Media News has learned that the original goal was, as mentioned above, to eliminate all non-contract staff, of which there are thousands at CCTV.
We hope to post more on this shortly.
