CCTV

CCTV, is China Central Television, the biggest and dominante TV station in China. It has numeous channels, although most of them have few audience. I think it is the richest TV station all over the world, but it doesn't know how to use money. So it build a new huge headquarters building which is designed by Ole Scheeren (maybe famous) and cost 1 billion EUR. But the common people call the building "the Big Underpants", and there is a huge LCD screen in the crotch of the huge underpants, so creative, romantic and erotic...

However, CCTV also means Closed Circuit Television. "You are under CCTV" can both mean you are monitored by the police (maybe not only police) or you are watching the TV programmes under the crotch of that building. It's cool! Isn't it?

Several years ago a local TV station held a series of programmes exactly like the "American Icon", and attracted lost of audiences belonged to CCTV before (tens of millions I guess). CCTV so forbided the local TV station to hold new programmes.

Another thing is, the translation jobs in CCTV must be the toughest because these translators don't know when the foreign language should be translated "politically correct" (which means "literally incorrect"). I think I'm too stupid to work in CCTV always.