CCTV Online

CCTV Online is a gaming company known for releasing California City Street Racers and California City Defense. It became independent after it was split into a separate company on January 2, 2021 following the Caltrose25V5 Recession in an effort to save CCTV Productions from bankruptcy.

The operating office is within the interactive department at CCTV Online's headquarters building and the game staff online usually work within each other in separate desks. CCTV Online usually requires people to be at least 18 years or older in order to work for the company. To be a steward for the two online games, the minimum age is 21 or older as per company policy. Staff and Stewards also have to work at the company's interactive department inside their office.

History
It was launched following the upcoming releases of California City Street Racers and California City Defense, which are online multiplayer games, one racing and one defense game respectively. As of December 27, 2020, CCTV Productions had made a decision to separate it from it's lineup and make it a separate company, with Ezekiel Palmer taking over as the company's new CEO, while Kirti Mang would take over CCTV Productions. The Split Of CCTV Productions was made to stop the Caltrose25V5 Recession. It became independent on January 2, 2021 after it was approved by ATBW Blog and now functions as a separate company from CCTV Productions, though CCTV will still distribute films until March 2021.

CCTV Online has kept California City Street Racers and California City Defense, as well as the California City Defense Anime distributed by Doju Studios. It has also kept California City Pimp Wars and other parts of California City Show that were no longer focused on by CCTV Productions, though the latter will still keep other, active parts of the franchise. As a result of being separated, CCTV Productions released CCTV Online Games that would become the new division for CCTV Interactive. The reason for the split was for CCTV Productions to accelerate it's net worth and save itself from bankruptcy, as well as avoiding liability for further cyber attacks to the games.

On January 27, 2021, a cyberattack against the company started when some of it's computers appeared to be malfunctioning and installing unnecessary and in some cases even harmful programs onto the computers. Initially thought as the return of Caltrose25V5, Ezekiel Palmer responded revealing that it is a different situation. As a result of the cyberattack, games were temporarily shut down, forcing only community servers to remain open. It was eventually revealed to be Phastworm, which is a computer worm capable of bypassing antivirus software and burning computers.

On September 17, 2021, CEO Ezekiel Palmer warned players that blasting music in any server is not permitted and will result in a temporary or even permanent ban, even if they do it on their own server. This came in response to music bots that blasted music on casual and competitive servers of California City Defense.

Moreover, new global server rules were put in force for community servers on September 20, 2021, which prohibits micspam in any form including but not limited to playing music, as well as arbitrary banning of users and spawncamping, and the chat rules that were implemented for casual and competitive servers now extended to community servers, and this also applies on California City Street Racers. Server owners will also be held accountable if users break any global rules. Previously, community servers did not have to follow the same rules as on casual and competitive matches except using security measures from Caltrose25V5 attacks from April of 2020.

On July 21, 2022, CCTV Online announced that it would remove Lamar and Coach Mach from California City Defense, and it would also remove some of the racers from California City Street Racers because a contract between them and CCTV Productions had expired. The latter company owns Lamar and Coach Mach, as well as some of the racers in California City Street Racers.

Jobs
Staff and Stewards are hired by CCTV Online and each staff can join several positions, moderating or engineering if they also have taken computer tech classes. As said previously, CCTV requires all staff members to be 18 or older and all stewards to be 21 or older. Stewards are mainly involved in minigames in both California City Street Racers and California City Defense, but are also staff members as well. On top of being 21 or older, Stewards also have to work as regular staff for three years after getting hired.