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82 services of the world. In the United States, Xinhua doubled the number of bureaus, adding Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco to its original footprint in Washington, DC, New York, and Los Angeles. Xinhua, like other state-owned Chinese media outlets, also began hiring local talent, and in 2009 it began a TV broadcast in English. As part of this vigorous propaganda campaign, the Party has sought to turn China Central Television into a global competitor to CNN. CCTV was already airing in America as of 2004, when it cooperated with EchoStar, America’s second-largest satellite TV company, to launch the Chinese “Great Wall Platform” package, including twelve Mandarin channels, two Cantonese channels, one Hokkien channel, and one English channel. That same year, Rupert Murdoch’s News Group helped CCTV place programming on Time Warner and NewsCorp’s US television network. CCTV also expanded its offerings in the United States, growing its bureau in Washington and hiring American reporters too. By 2012, CCTV, recently renamed the China Global Television Network (CGTN), was broadcasting in seven languages. Its programs for American audiences regularly feature personalities from Russia’s state-funded propaganda outlet, RT, which was recently required to register as a foreign agent; RT, in turn, regularly features CGTN personalities. China Radio International (CRI) was also given a foreign platform. Decades ago, the Beijing-based propaganda outlet relied solely on shortwave broadcasts to beam China’s message to the world, but in the late 2000s it began leasing local stations around the globe and across the United States that it supplied with content made in Beijing. CRI has used a US-based company through which it leases stations. That firm is EDI Media Inc. (@s2S38 8 IR 5]), which also owns other media properties that tow Beijing’s line: G&E TV GRR), GE Studio Network GRIRRF BA), and EDI City Newsweek (870 #1 MFI).1° A CRI subsidiary in China, Guoguang Century Media, holds a majority stake in G&E Studio."' When it comes to reporting on mainland China, the content of all of EDI’s outlets mirrors that of China’s state-owned media. China’s state-run media have proved to be nimble in accomplishing Beijing’s goal of penetrating US markets. In 2013, the Hong Kong—based Phoenix Satellite TV group, which has close ties to the Chinese state and broadcasts in China, attempted to purchase two major FM stations in Los Angeles that shared the same frequency. One of them, KDAY, covers West L.A., while KDEY stretches into Riverside and San Bernardino counties to the east of the city. Greater Los Angeles is home to more than a half million Chinese, the second-biggest concentration next to New York City. But none of the Media HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020541