China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has told local media that the country's second IPTV license will go to CCTV.

Zhu Hong, a representative from SARFT, says that the license that CCTV gets is the same in nature with that of the first one owned by Shanghai Media Group.

However CCTV is initially only approved to run IPTV service on a trial basis.