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CCTV-13
	CCTV-13 Channel Logo
Country	China
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Headquarters	China Media Group Headquarters
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV; (downscaled to 576i for the SD feed)
Ownership
Owner	China Central Television
History
Launched	1 May 2003
Former names	CCTV News
Links
Website	cctv13.cntv.cn
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital TV (DTMB)	Digital channel number varies by region
Digital TV (Macau)	Channel 72 (SD)
Streaming media
CCTV program website	CCTV-13

CCTV-13 (Chinese: 中国中央电视台新闻频道, China Central Television News Channel), formerly CCTV News (Chinese: CCTV-新闻), broadcasting across China since 2003, is a 24-hour news channel of China Central Television and the biggest news channel in mainland China.

Content

CCTV News channel broadcasts live news reports every hour throughout the day, as well as current affairs programmes in the evening. Bulletins cover domestic and international events. The channel broadcasts exclusively in Mandarin Chinese. Viewers from across the Greater China region and that of the Chinese diaspora can watch the channel via satellite. From the midday newscast on 16 October 2019, all newscasts and in-depth programming, with the exceptions of Xinwen Lianbo and Focus Report, is broadcast in 16:9 and produced in high definition. Xinwen Lianbo and Focus Report made the HD switchover on 18 July 2020, along with the channel's HD feed available through satellite from the next day.^[1]