Daifu Channel
{{Short description|Japanese television airing China Central Television's programming}}
Daifu Channel (Japanese: 大富チャンネル), formerly CCTV-Daifu (CCTV大富), officially known as Chinese TV - Daifu Channel (中国テレビ★大富チャンネル), is the main channel of Daifu, a Japanese television company catering the Chinese diaspora in Japan. The channel airs China Central Television's programming to the Japanese market.
History
Daifu Channel started broadcasting on July 1, 1998. The channel started as a partial calque of CCTV-4, the Chinese international channel, but had local inserts to cater the Chinese diaspora.{{cite web | last1=Qian | first1=Zhou | title=China’s International Television Broadcasting and Internal and External Challenges | url=https://www.jamco.or.jp/en/symposium/25/5/ | website=Japan Media Communications Center | quote=In August 1998 CCTV and several Japanese broadcasters such as Fuji Television Network jointly established the pay-television channel CCTV Daifu, with the Japanese direct-to-home satellite broadcasting service SKY PerfecTV! providing Chinese programs to households in Japan. CCTV Daifu mainly relayed CCTV-4 programs and sometimes inserted original programs targeted at Japan.}} The channel has been made available on SKY PerfecTV! since its inception. Its programming as of 2003 differed from CCTV-4, which at the time broadcast a single feed running on an 8-hour wheel due to timezone differences. CCTV-Daifu started airing a localized program, Japan News (日本新闻), in 2002, modelled after CCTV-4's China News.{{cite news | title=日本株式会社大富董事长张丽玲发言 | url=https://media.news.sohu.com/74/79/news213497974.shtml | work=Sohu | date=September 22, 2003 | language=zh}} In 2017, for the 45th anniversary of Japan's normalization of diplomatic ties with the PRC, it produced China Story (中国故事), which also made it to Fuji TV's documentary slot.{{cite book | last1=Kong | first1=Lingmin | title=Exploring China’s Soft Power: Manifestations of the Chinese Dream in Contemporary Practices of Cultural Diplomacy | date=September 2019 | publisher=University of York | page=82 | url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/27062/1/Kong_202046173_Final%20Thesis.pdf | format=pdf | quote=More recently, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the normalisation of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, the documentary TV series China Story began to broadcast through Japan Fuji TV in 2017. Produced by the Japanese Fuji TV, Daifu and China Intercontinental Communication Centre (CICC), China Story focused on the lives of common Japanese people living in China.}}
On November 1, 2022, CCTV-Daifu was simply renamed Daifu Channel. The programming mix (CCTV programs and local productions) remained unchanged but the number of subtitled programs was reduced to mainly dramas and primetime news; while other slots which were used for subtitled programming were reconfigured for an all-Chinese format (with no Japanese subtitles).{{Cite web|title=視聴者の皆様へお知らせ | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009021546/http://www.cctvdf.com/j/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=367:%E8%A6%96%E8%81%B4%E8%80%85%E3%81%AE%E7%9A%86%E6%A7%98%E3%81%B8%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%89%E3%81%9B&Itemid=235 | website=株式会社大富 | access-date=2022-10-09 | date=2022-09-30 | language=ja}} On January 31, 2023, Hikari TV removed the channel.{{cite news | title=「中国テレビ★大富チャンネル」継続提供のお知らせ | url=https://www.hikaritv.net/info/2022/1222/index.html | work=Hikari TV | date=December 22, 2022 | language=ja}}