CCTV Productions

CCTV Productions is an ATBW Blog studio company founded on February 17, 2018 by Kirti Mang, known for Three Deer, California City, Life In The Year 7500, and Ice Island. It has been owned by ATBW Holdings LLC through its ATBW Web Engineering division under ATBW Blog since December 22, 2018. It is also the direct sibling company to Ramworks Software, founded on July 27, 2013, also by Kirti Mang. It is most famous for California City, which aired on April 24, 2018.

It eventually started buying other companies as well, with their first one Alma Studios on September 14, 2018.

Post California City, New Beginning
The company was founded on February 17, 2018 by Kirti Mang to be independent as well as a film and music company instead of a game company like Ramworks Software, which was founded on July 27, 2013 focusing mainly on games. Prior to Three Deer on February 24, 2018, he did three animations under the company, one was The Car Ride, released on February 19, 2018, Pimpster's Paradise, released on February 21, 2018, and Mr. Nobody, released on February 23, 2018. These shorts would be featured on Comedy Humor, which would air on the network until Three Deer on February 24, 2018.

He had planned to get Ramworks back, but due to the fact that it has been owned by ATBW Blog since December 15, 2016 made it impossible as the company had gotten money from it, and that ATBW Label Networks at the time was already airing one of its cartoons Jazzy Jackrabbit on Comedy Humor. He had tried to get it back on February 10, 2018, but due to the request being denied by the major studio company, Mang instead chose to start over again and this time establishing an animation studio instead of a game publisher. He had been thinking on using CCTV Productions as the new company's name, with CCTV an abbreviation for California City TeleVision. He chose the name for the new company and bought the animation studio building on February 14, 2018. The company was founded 3 days later.

Mang also thought of getting his friend Jim Randolph over, but due to having to continue producing Jazzy Jackrabbit for Comedy Humor under the Ramworks name, Mang ended up hiring Ezekiel Palmer into the new company. The two alongside the company would eventually get into a quarrel with Calligraphy Studios in early March 2018, thus the CCTV Productions V. Calligraphy Studios lawsuit, due to the characters in Three Deer being far to similar to that of Artie, and had threatened to sue them $2,000,000.00 for copyright infringement charges against the company. Danny Anguila, the founder who still runs the company, had emailed them to stop making the show due to the characters infringing Artie. It was eventually pulled on March 24, 2018, but didn't stop a movie or a game from being released by Ramworks Software, with the movie released on March 30, 2018, and March 31, 2018.

Randolph eventually got bored of running the company and eventually went on to establish Lancerware on April 10, 2018, focusing on his own game Tealy & Lancer. Randolph eventually offer Mang and Palmer the character design he had designed for his game, which eventually came to fruition for a new show that would eventually become the largest hit since Amory The Bad Woman, which would be California City on April 24, 2018. The setting is in their town and the three characters would become Lamar, Jamar, and Delmar, whom Mang had known for a long time. They eventually got into the deal and decided to agree on starring in the show.

CCTV Red & CCTV Blue Episode
After working tremendous, TNT Gong, who had been starring in California City Show in earlier episodes eventually decided to make an episode with CCTV Red and CCTV Blue as two separate companies, which would debut in the episode Unidentified Organizations on July 24, 2018. In the episode, CCTV splits in two, with TNT Gong controlling CCTV Red while Mang controlling CCTV Blue. This created confusion and would eventually become reality in March 2019.

Success And Rise
After debuting California City Show on April 24, 2018, the company became successful, and eventually made games based on it, such as California City Street Racers, California City Pimp Wars, California City Defense, etc. in May 2018, and an eventual movie, California City Defense: The Movie on May 10, 2018, which would be distributed by ATBW Pictures, the motion picture arm of ATBW Label Network, with CCTV in charge of production of the film. They would also distribute many other films later on and would continue gaining more success after airing on ATBW's Comedy Humor.

Mang would eventually be met up by Alma Rhodes about buying her studio company on August 13, 2018, and eventually signed a deal on September 10, 2018, which would then buy Alma Studios on September 14, 2018 as their first company. Rhodes would still control the company even as it is under CCTV ownership. California City would continue becoming more popular

Beginning Of The New Era
On December 20, 2018, ATBW Label Networks announced a bid to buy CCTV Productions, which would eventually be completed by December 22, 2018. It has since been owned under ATBW Blog, which would also get full control over the company. The studio has since bought more companies, including Seychelle Productions on February 16, 2019. While Y Levi was working there (having been working there since the start of California City Show earlier in April) would eventually talk to Mang about another CCTV company, which would be Red and Blue, but ultimately failed.

CCTV Red & CCTV Blue Reality
After watching the episode Unidentified Organizations, CCTV Star Y Levi came up with an idea to split up the company in two, which would become CCTV Red, which would retain everything made by Kirti Mang, and CCTV Blue, a company that the young rapper would control and use moreover to music and rapping shorts, but this idea never came to fruition, largely due to issues that would occur with the company.

One issue is that CCTV is owned by ATBW, which cannot be removed from ownership after its buyout. If the split would happen, then that company may not leave ownership until 2104, as they don't let go of their subsidiaries for 95 years, the only exception is financial issues not performing well. CCTV was doing well. Another issue is that Mang has worked tremendously hard to keep up on CCTV Productions, which he would not have to break the company as he wants it to be only one company and not two, and Mang already did records under the company's name.

Levi eventually decided that he would start a new one and call it CCTV Blue and Mang to call his CCTV Red, but this also in turn failed. According to Mang, he does not want to change the company's name or logo and wants to keep it as CCTV Productions. He also did not want to see another company using his trademarks under copyright infringement, neither would ATBW on that matter. Levi eventually scrapped the idea and quietly started a new studio on his own, which would in turn become Y Levi Studios, which would have originally been CCTV Blue, if the original idea had never been scrapped.

Y Levi Studios in turn would eventually be bought by the company on June 5, 2019. Y Levi had also been interviewed and stated that he would have conveyed to both CCTV and ATBW on the idea if they weren't selfish on the idea. He had also stated that if the split did come to fruition, then CCTV Red would have been in charge of producing CCTV shows, music, and merchandise, while CCTV Blue would focus on music videos, music, and the once planned Y Levi mall. After it had been declined, Levi scrapped the idea entirely and left the company logos behind even as the logo designs had been finished, which bear resemblance to the CCTV logo, but in colors red and blue respectively. In accordance to the ATBW Copyright Agency, a company owned by the company cannot have the exact same name as that other company, subsidiary or not. Y Levi mall was also somehow scrapped as well.

An episode in Season 3 of the show would eventually air this part again in small numbers, with Lamar getting angered after seeing Levi at the newly established CCTV Blue with Lang having to deal with CCTV Red, as seen in the episode Gap Of The South.

Change To ATBW
As Langile Mediaworks Division, the then parent company of ATBW Label Networks since the split in 2003 was about to split once again, this time making ATBW an independent company, CCTV wanted to release a film before it was too late. That movie would eventually become Celo Johnson's Dirt Bike Legends: The Escade Mission, released on September 14, 2019, which would become a CCTV film to be know as a CCTV movie and ATBW movie with the last ATBW logo released under Langile Mediaworks Corporation before ATBW was split and moved to ATBW Holdings LLC, alongside all of its subsidiaries, with ATBW Label Networks becoming a division with three new divisions formed under it. A new Langile Company would be formed as Langile Holdings LLC, which would not have anything to do with ATBW and instead focus on Langile content. All of Langile Mediaworks Corporation's subsidiaries were move there and Langile Mediaworks became a divison, alongside two new ones for the company as well.

Fast Forward, Continuous Expansion
On January 17, 2020, the company bought Central Comedies which included Rollin Comedies and Longitude Studios, and the company also got a partial 56% of Comedy Circle Park as a result of the acquisition.

On March 5, 2020, the company released CCTV Network, which was exclusive to the ATBW Viewer, which at the time was a demo release, and all of CCTV's programming were taken off Comedy Humor and moved it all exclusively to CCTV Network.

On March 26, 2020, the company's online division at the time CCTV Online reported a cyber attack taking place in a community server in California City Defense, which would eventually become widespread and force game servers to be limited on both that game and California City Street Racers, which spawned the Caltrose25V5 Unrest due to the company banning players for violating unfair gaming rules, which Kirti Mang at the time chose to impose instead of shutting down the game completely, and at the same time it would also lead to the Caltrose25V5 Recession, which lasted for more than a year, and at the same time on April 15, 2020, CCTV Productions acquired Revolver Media, which included Reese Comedies, Belle & Bella Tiktoks, Rock Cartoons, and the remaining 44% of Comedy Circle Park. The attacks ended on May 3, 2020 and the Caltrose25V5 Hackers were caught ten days later.

On May 25, 2020 following a news article a day later, Hanging With Seychelle premiered on CCTV Network, though Seychelle Productions was later sold to Martha Woods Group on July 14, 2020, though the show continued to air on CCTV Network until November 20, 2020 when Martha Woods Network was founded.

On August 2, 2020, Secrose54V5 was installed on a community server operated by David Burkins, though it was removed four days later.

On December 17, 2020, the company planned to spin-off CCTV Online as a separate company, which was officially announced ten days later, and was completed on January 2, 2021. Ezekiel Palmer moved to work at CCTV Online as the company's CEO while Kirti Mang became the CEO of CCTV Productions.

In February 2021, the company began towing cars off the headquarters building's parking lot as it was used by beach residents.

Change Of CEO
In June 2021, Lamar Brown replaced Kirti Mang as the CEO, while the latter remained as president until being replaced by David Burkins in August that same year.

In January 2022, CCTV announced that partner CKD Industries Inc. would be banned from doing business again after it's CEO Fidel Valdez and his employees were accused of stealing money from their vault through cyber means and spending it on making bootleg games for the ATBW C4. Valdez had previously been hailed a hero by them for his role in finding the hackers responsible for Caltrose25V5 and Secrose54V5 trojan attacks and leading to their arrests. Two other senior members of the company were also sanctioned for aiding Valdez. Lamar brown warned that other ATBW Blog companies and individuals may only do business with either CCTV or CKD, but not both. CKD has been alleged to have been making bootlegs on the C4 since June 2019.