On this day 67 years ago, on September 2, 1958 (July 19, 1958 lunar calendar), CCTV officially went LIVE. At the beginning of its establishment, CCTV was called Beijing TV, and the first TV station in New China - Beijing TV was tested. On September 2, 1958, the TV station began to officially broadcast programs. The studio at that time was temporarily converted from a rehearsal hall of more than 50 square meters. The black and white TV programs broadcast on the day of the trial broadcast included speeches by advanced producers, news documentaries, science and education films, poetry readings and dances. On September 2, 1958, Beijing TV officially broadcast. After 4 months of CCTV's trial broadcast, it was officially broadcast on September 2. It was broadcast 4 times a week for 2-3 hours each time. At this time, CCTV had a launch radius of only 25 kilometers, and there were only more than 30 TV receivers in the whole city of Beijing. However, the TV program signal over the Beijing area showed that China had created the country's first TV station in the capital, the National Television of the People's Republic of China. The establishment of CCTV marked the beginning of China's television industry. Later, TV stations were also established in various provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. Television, as a brand new enterprise, has been cared for by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council from the very beginning. Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and other party and state leaders have all visited CCTV. In the face of serious economic difficulties in our country and the reduction of the number of national TV stations from 23 to 5, the state also decided to build a 9,800-square-meter printing building for CCTV and allocate some TV equipment. CCTV, which was struggling to start a business, worked harder. Since January 1960, CCTV has experimented with a fixed program schedule, which includes both programs for general audiences and programs for specific audiences. There are news programs, educational and cultural programs, and dozens of regular or staggered columns are broadcast. In March 1960, CCTV also jointly opened China's first TV university, Beijing TV University, with the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Education. China Central Television (CCTV) On May 1, 1973, CCTV broadcast color TV programs on a trial basis, completing the leap from black and white to color. So far, in addition to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, there are 374 TV stations at or above the provincial level, 1273 county-level radio and television stations, 234 cable TV stations, 39,991 TV transmission and relay stations, 177,432 satellite ground stations, 2279 microwave stations, and 76,719 kilometers of microwave lines. It is these material foundations that constitute a huge and modern basic pattern of China's television industry. Now, the country has 300 million TV sets, more than 1 billion TV viewers, more than 80 million cable TV users, and the TV population coverage rate has increased to 89.01%. With the rapid progress of the "Village-to-Village Radio and Television" project across the country, it is not far off to fundamentally solve the problem of rural people in remote and remote areas watching TV. Foreign television communication has also made great progress. CCTV's international channel program signals have been transmitted through satellite to cover the world and are gradually landing on all continents. At the beginning of its establishment, "News Network" and announcer Li Juan officially went LIVE on January 1, 1978; on May 1, 1978, Beijing TV officially changed its name to CCTV. These two landmark events accompanied the introduction of black and white TV sets into thousands of households, marking the gradual formation of the first group of mainland TV viewers in China in the true sense. For groups born after the mid-1970s, the history of watching TV channels for mainland TV viewers since 1978 is the growth history of our entire childhood! At present, CCTV has 9 sets of programs, provincial Taiwan offices have 2 to 3 sets of programs, municipal Taiwan offices have 1 to 2 sets of programs, and county-level Taiwan offices have 1 set of programs. The national TV broadcast program has reached 1007 sets, with an average weekly broadcast time of 61,656 hours. TV programs have gradually been column-oriented, greatly enriching program content. Coverage implements rolling broadcast, increases the amount of information, increases the number of broadcasts, improves news timeliness, and improves openness; opens up commentary programs, and strengthens in-depth reporting. A number of news in-depth reporting columns represented by CCTV's "Focus Interview", "Oriental Time and Space", "News Investigation" and "Now Broadcasting" have produced extensive social influence. Each station has systematically introduced new ones in the program reform, and established a number of new news, special topics, literature and art and other famous brand program columns. At the same time, the original program columns have been revised or adjusted, and the program content has been continuously enriched and updated, and the program quality has been improved. Major breakthroughs have been made in the creation of TV dramas. The annual output has developed from dozens (episodes) in the past to more than 8,000 (episodes) now. China's four major classical literary masterpieces "Journey to the West", "Dream of Red Mansions", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" have been successively moved to the screen in the form of TV series. TV screens have become increasingly colorful and colorful. The first large-scale talk program "Tell the Truth" In 1996, "Oriental Time and Space" launched a "Sunday Special Dedication" program "Tell the Truth". The first program was titled "Birds and Us". Since then, "Tell the Truth" has been broadcast on "Oriental Time and Space" every Sunday. With the improvement of China's international status and the increase of its international influence, CCTV, as the national television station of our country, has increasingly developed its international exchanges. CCTV has business relations with more than 100 TV agencies in more than 80 countries. In recent years, the number of program exchanges between CCTV and foreign countries has increased significantly. Now CCTV has entered a stage of comprehensive development.