Country | China |
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Broadcast area | International |
Headquarters | Tai Po, Hong Kong |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Phoenix Television |
Sister channels | Phoenix North America Chinese Channel Phoenix Television |
History | |
Launched | 1 January 2001 |
Closed | 1 July 2020 (Astro, Malaysia, but relaunched on 9 July 2020) |
Links | |
Website | phtv |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
Phoenix InfoNews Channel | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 鳳凰衛視資訊台 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 凤凰卫视资讯台 | ||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Fènghuáng Wèishì Zīxùn Tái | ||||||
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The channel's coverage of the September 11 attacks prompted China Central Television to launch its own rolling news channel) on May Day 2003. At the time when the story broke,InfoNews was on-the-scene and provided reporting as the situation unfolded,whereas CCTV did not report it for as many as two successive days. [1]
On March 14,2019,Phoenix InfoNews Channel switch to 16:9 format on Astro.
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