CCTV Executives May Have Crossed a Fuzzy Line

(Beijing) -- The blurry boundary that separates advertising offices and content production at China's powerful broadcaster CCTV may have encouraged racketeering by a group of top executives.

The racket of undisclosed proportions is now at the center of an anti-corruption investigation targeting several executives including Guo Zhenxi, director of the state-owned TV network's finance and economics channel CCTV2, and Tan Liwu, one of the channel's producers.