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[quote=JABAROOTOO,233547]Good on you Paul,

Firstly let me say that CCTV nine offers those of us living here in China, if we can access to the station some relatively good historical, cultural and real life stuff about China, but one has to remember that it is first and foremost an instrument of the government broadcasting to the rest of the world.

And yes it gets tediously boring, especially the news and Dialogue (he takes himself so seriously)

I also agree with you about the weather man but I'm pretty sure he is Canadian and unfortunately he does not use good 'weather terminology' and his mannerisms are very distracting.   I wonder who actually scripts the weather for the presenters.

Some of the other native English speakers and you will know who I am talking about here are atrocious, presenting narrations for documentaries with all the pauses in the wrong places and often quite the wrong intonation on words.  some of them are quite poorly written and often very repetitive and also use a lot of inappropriate language for the subject matter.  If I'm interested in the context I will listen but it is painful to say the least.  One example is the current documentary about the tall ship, the Goetteburg from Sweden.  At one point they were talking about the strong winds that blow across the southern Indian Ocean which in the English language are widely referred to the 'Roaring Forties'  because this is the latitude of the currents and winds that roar across this part of the ocean and sailors used them to advantage.  This name was never even hinted at and other discriptions of a marine nature were badly scripted like that of a child writing his first essay. 
  
As for being available to the rest of the world, it is a cable or 'pay' TV station so could have limited appeal and access.  But one thing is important for any person on the channel, both native or non native speaker,  is to have a very neutral accent irrispective of thier country of origin.  A good newsreader, anchorman should be very neutral in his accent, as is Edwin Maher, an Australian incidentally.[/quote]

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