Commuters ride bicycles near the China Central Television (CCTV) building in the central business district in Beijing on Sept. 1, 2022. Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo
Several state-run television and radio channels in central China’s Hubei Province will cease operations at the end of June, a move that observers say reflects mounting financial pressures on China’s traditional media system and the declining influence of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) long-standing propaganda apparatus.
In a June 10 announcement, Hubei Television said it would shut down two television channels as well as three radio frequencies, according to a report on Chinese news portal Sohu. The closures, approved by China’s National Radio and Television Administration, will take effect on June 30.