Hunan Television
Hunan Television or Hunan TV (simplified Chinese: 湖南卫视; traditional Chinese: 湖南衞視; pinyin: Húnán Wèishì) is a state-owned provincial satellite TV station launched on September 29, 1970.It is also broadcast overseas as Hunan STV World in Japan, India, Nepal, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Tajikistan, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, and parts of Africa, the Americas, and Europe.[citation needed] On December 15, 2006, Hunan TV collaborated with BBC to broadcast “Just the Two of Us”—the first entertainment collaboration between Chinese television and the BBC on a global scale.[7][8] In 2017, the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party criticized Hunan TV for chasing ratings, saying that "they have failed to fulfill the mission of being a mouthpiece of the Party."They also claimed that the channel is a "platform for gay entertainment," that its female guests show too much skin, that it advertises fake products, and that it trades social benefits for economic ones.