MCLC: new leader of CCTV

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: new leader of CCTV
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Source: NYT (11/25/11):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/world/asia/cctv-chinas-largest-tv-network
-names-hu-zhanfan-as-head.html

WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA
New Leader for China¹s Largest TV Network
By EDWARD WONG

The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has announced that Hu
Zhanfan is taking over as president of China Central Television, better
known as CCTV, a state-run organization that is the largest television
network in the country, according to a report by Xinhua, the state news
agency. Mr. Hu was vice minister of the State Administration of Radio,
Film and Television, an agency that regulates some of China¹s largest
media industries and is widely thought to be conservative. The current
head of CCTV, Jiao Li, will take a new position in the government, Xinhua
reported on Thursday without giving more details. Mr. Jiao was appointed
president of CCTV in May 2009, and before that served in the publicity
department of the party¹s Central Committee. Since a policy meeting in
October, Chinese leaders have been pushing for various changes and
regulations in cultural industries, media organizations and the Internet.