During the 1980s, State-run China Central Television (CCTV) was the home of the country's most popular unscripted programming: variety shows.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, that may have meant renting out bulky and expensive recording equipment. But now that most anyone can shoot video on their smartphones in seconds, CCTV is ...

In the early 1980s when CCTV started the Spring Festival gala, few Chinese people had such a buzzing nightlife and TV sets were still a luxury for many families.

CCTV showing the moment a killer walked into a police station and confessed to a brutal 1980 murder was released by police on Friday - as he was jailed for at least 19 years. John Paul, 61, of ...

There is, of course, a crime rate in Germany. I was in Berlin for two years during the mid 1980s and was shocked to learn that there were also 4,000 suicides a year in what was then just West Berlin!