Dish Network has several television channels that broadcast programs in Chinese for the Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking people in the USA. As the Chinese population rises in America, people have become in need of news, entertainment, and programs originating from China and Chinese neighborhoods. To satisfy this demand, Dish offers the following opportunities.
The main Mandarin-language channels available on Dish Network include:
- CCTV-4 – This is a channel belonging to China Central Television that offers a variety of shows mostly dealing with Chinese culture, history, and way of life. It provides Chinese language learning programs including Chinese instruction programs and dramas, documentaries, music, talk shows, and children's programs.
- Phoenix North America Chinese Channel – This channel provides coverage of Phoenix Television which operates from Hong Kong. They are Chinese-language news reports, documentary programs, variety shows, lifestyle programs, and drama series.
- ETTV America – Taiwan’s channel of Eastern Television offers Mandarin Chinese entertainment and news with a focus on Taiwan. The programs include the new Taiwan drama series, dubbed Hollywood movies, other entertainment programs, game programs, and news programs.
- TVB Jadeworld – This channel is owned by the TVB Group which is based in Hong Kong and airs entertainment, dramas, variety programs, talk shows, and children’s programs. TVB dramas and variety programs from Hong Kong are popular among overseas Chinese.
For Cantonese speakers, Dish offers these top channels:
- Phoenix InfoNews Channel - This channel delivers news and information about Hong Kong and Southern China, which includes updates, analysis, and documentaries. This channel has content in two languages: Cantonese and Mandarin.
- TVBe Jadeworld – It is a channel similar to the Mandarin TVBJadeworld which provides viewers with Cantonese dubbed programs from TVB in Hong Kong, ranging from drama, sitcoms, variety shows, and children's programs.
- ETTV Asia – Like ETTV America Mandarin, it was launched as a Taiwanese sister channel to the Taiwanese ETTV America channel, however, instead of airing programs in Mandarin, it airs Taiwan programs in Cantonese.
This enables Hong Kong and Cantonese language-speaking audiences to watch ETTV’s collection of movies, dramas, variety shows, and many others.
In addition to these channels that offer Chinese language programming 24/7, Dish Network also offers CCTV News and CCTV E&E documentaries on its international foreign language services. Other Taiwanese, Hong Kong, and Chinese programs are also featured in Dish’s massive Chinese language VOD catalog with more than thousands of hours of programming. Customers can, for instance, directly search for the dishes they prefer and other dramas on the platform.
As for the Chinese channel, DIRECTV used to have more Cantonese channels from TVB and TVB Classic Movies while Dish Network has the most extensive Chinese channel package covering both Mandarin and Cantonese languages today. The Entertainment Television Network Dish plans to deliver all the best Chinese programs in entertainment, news, and culture from mainland China, Hong Kong Taiwan, and Chinese communities in other countries to all the Chinese Americans in the United States. These channels are still available to help Dish fight and gain more customers while the demand for Chinese language programming increases. Since streaming of current Chinese series and shows is still relatively restricted, Dish’s satellite broadcasts are highly popular among Chinese Americans looking for the most recent programs from Asia and their home countries.
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