CCTV Productions

CCTV Productions is a studio company established on February 17, 2018 by Kirti Mang. The studio company is primarily known for creating California City on April 24, 2018 for Comedy Humor. On December 20, 2018, however, was the date the company would be purchased by ATBW Label Networks, and the deal was successfully made on December 22, 2018, with the company being bought out for $79 million dollars.

It's first animated series made was Three Deer, though their most successful show is California City Show. Prior to Three Deer, the company actually made two 10 minute shorts not tv series shows that would be posted on the channel.

It also holds small companies, which are only small businesses, but otherwise still owned by CCTV Productions, and due to it being owned by PBLOG Lite, this makes those companies property of them as well.

On March 5, 2020, CCTV launched CCTV Network, which airs its shows on the channel, as well as CCTV Talk Show like it does on its radio, and launched a talk show that would air well into the night, the 1 o'clock talk show, which is a talk show that airs at 1 AM every night (except weekends where there is paid programming). It airs California City Show, Life In The Year 7500, Ice Island, and two other shows. Three Deer also airs on the channel, at night (for the original one), but the remake airs in the day.

History
The company first formed on February 17, 2018 and initially only made comedy skits and animated shorts before releasing Three Deer on February 24, 2018 to March 24, 2018. The company initially started out very small before growing large.

Kirti Mang attempted to get Ramworks Software back, though as it had already been owned by PBLOG Lite since December 15, 2016, this made it hard to get it back and also impossible. That company was founded on July 27, 2013 by Mang and Jim Randolph before Randolph eventually founded Lancerware on April 10, 2018.

Prior to California City, the company has produced an animated short called Three Deer, which starred three deer cloned from Artie's character design from Calligraphy Deer and was a flash show primarily made on ATBW Blog, which was how and where CCTV Productions first formed. Three Deer would air from February 24, 2018, to March 24, 2018. This show, however, being a flash show, was never officially aired on Television and has never been successful for a variety of reasons. This would also spawn the Calligraphy Studios V CCTV Productions Copyright Lawsuit that was prominent through March 2018 and ultimately made the company famous and temporarily revived the Calligraphy Deer franchise as it was made a meme through April 2018.

Due to the nearly identical design of the three characters, as well as mostly starring only those three characters, with other characters being minor characters, the show has failed in many ways and rarely any success. Additionally, this show was never popularized except between its timespan of when it would air these shorts. Even during its popularity, the episodes would only get up to a million views, but not much of a hit everyone would do for a new show. The show, however, has caused Calligraphy Deer to revive itself after being forgotten for 10 years of that time. Nonetheless, the show would still only air for a length of one month and it was announced on March 20, 2018 that it would air its last episode four days later. All this plus the lawsuit had put pressure on both CCTV Productions and it's founder Kirti Mang.

After the show had suddenly stopped airing its episodes, the studio company had been planning on starting another show but with no luck. Due to an upcoming game, which is Tealy & Lancer, released on April 10, 2018, the studio had decided to create a similar character rig as Lancer J. Moose from the game to be used for their new show. The show would be similar to Three Deer, but it would have more interesting things and many new characters and places than Three Deer previously did. This took several days (more than a week) to have been introduced. On April 24, 2018 however, they were able to debut their show on ATBW Blog, which actually went better than its older counterpart Three Deer did. Due to the success of their new show, ATBW Label Networks reached CCTV Productions to have the show aired on Comedy Humor, which it did on April 30, 2018.

On April 26, 2018, CCTV Online was founded to be the division of CCTV Interactive, which would release California City Street Racers, California City Pimp Wars, and California City Defense, though CCSR and CCD are both online multiplayer games while CCPW is not even though it does have online play with friends. These three games became popular in May of 2018 and quickly exceeded in popularity until it peaked in 2019. Also in May 2018, the California City Defense Anime was released by CCTV Productions through Doju Studios, though since the split in 2021 it is now fully owned and controlled by CCTV Online.

CCTV Acquired it's first official company on July 27, 2018, which was Edina Studios, which was founded by one of Kirti Mang's friends that produced comedy skits and produced beats. It also acquired Rhodes Studios on September 14, 2018 and sold Edina Studios on October 14, 2018 after financial failures.

CCTV Productions was added as a mini major ATBW Blog Company on August 5, 2018 and would outrank the nine ATBW Blog Companies owned by ATBW Blog plus Lancerware, and it became a major company on November 23, 2018, making three major ATBW Blog Companies up from two, which were Merrill Studios and Signature Studios, which were around since the start of ATBW Blog.

On December 22, 2018, ATBW Label Networks announced that CCTV Productions was acquired by ATBW Blog and this now makes up ten companies instead of nine from before. The first episode of California City Show made in this new era was A Brown's Family Christmas, which gets the record of being the last episode in 2018, the last episode of Season 1, and the first episode made after ATBW's acquisition of the company.

On February 16, 2019, CCTV acquired Seychelle Productions and expanded it's library, as well as hiring it's founder Seychelle Woods to CCTV Records, and on March 5, 2019, Y Levi who had already signed up with CCTV Records that same time founded Y Levi Studios and suggested that CCTV Become two companies, though Kirti Mang disagreed with the idea and decides to have it stay as it is. CCTV would eventually acquire Y Levi Studios on June 5, 2019 despite Seychelle & Levi having feuds with each other.

On May 10, 2019, CCTV Productions invited Merrill Studios to bring their original game titles into their three hooters restaurants that the company owns, and they started making arcade machines and plush toys for those to buy in those three hooters restaurants that CCTV Productions owns.

In the summer of 2019, CCTV sold the Game And Play, which was a handheld that was released in May 2019, though it became popular in the summer as it featured many CCTV Games on it, often ports of it's games that were published onto the C4.

On August 13, 2019, CCTV Productions was ranked number 1 on the ATBW eleven companies owned by ATBW Blog, with a total of 182 employees, surpassing the 178 employees of Merrill Studios at that time, ranking it in second place. Signature Studios was ranked third place on the scale.

On September 6, 2019, CCTV aired another show called Life In The Year 7500 and on September 14, 2019, it would air another show called Ice Island. On September 17, 2019, CCTV Productions became the last company to have it's movie distributed by ATBW Pictures in the Langile Mediaworks Division era before hte ATBW Langile Independence took place that day.

On December 26, 2019, CCTV released it's End Of The Decade Special, which was not only the last episode of Season 2 of California City Show, but would also be the last episode of the series to air in the 2010's for good, before the decade turned.

On January 17, 2020, CCTV bought Central Comedies, which included Rollin Comedies and Longitude Studios as they are subsidiaries of it. This gave CCTV Productions more franchises to use and would air on Comedy Humor until CCTV Network was launched.

On March 5, 2020, CCTV Productions was the very first company of the eleven to release it's own network onto the upcoming ATBW Viewer, which was released on March 10, 2020 which included all the eleven ATBW Blog Networks. This was before the official release of the system on October 30, 2020 and when ATBW moved all of it's networks to it on January 30, 2021 amid the ATBW Network Migration.

On March 26, 2020, a trojan horse was installed onto a community server in California City Defense and would eventually wreak havoc across it's games. It became more prominent on March 30, 2020 and would led to community server shut downs and eventually temporarily banning server creation to fight it were made, though it would still continue to find more servers to attack. As security was upgraded on community servers, the trojan horse eventually found it easy to attack Casual and Competitive game modes.

The trojan horse spawned bots that eliminated players speed by 70% and gave the two bots an additional 80% speed boost. Not only this, but they were also able to shoot through walls and the trojan horse was easily spread onto other accounts in the game. These closures led to the Caltrose25V5 Unrest on April 2, 2020 and lasted until April 26, 2020, as well as the ongoing Caltrose25V5 Recession that is still ongoing as of February 2021.

Despite the Caltrose25V5 trojan horse attacks, CCTV was still able to acquire Revolver Media on April 15, 2020, which gave it Reese Comedies, Belle & Bella Tiktoks, and Rock Cartoons, which would help the company increase profit to deal with the recession. The trojan attacks ended on May 3, 2020 and the two hackers responsible were arrested on May 13, 2020.

On May 21, 2020, Seychelle Woods was featured on a news article in regards to a fight and would quickly spread like wildfire. As an indirect result, Hanging With Seychelle started airing on May 25, 2020 on CCTV Network and would be produced by Seychelle Productions as a whole. It was also one of the most popular shows in the summer of 2020.

On July 7, 2020, Seychelle Woods would spawn a viral challenge across social media, which would become the Gerapple Challenge. This trend lasted until September 27, 2020 and California City Show featured them in the episode Trying To Ger-Apple in July 2020. On August 14, 2020, colorized Gerapples were released, which glew in the dark and came in numerous colors. While gerapples have been around since 1963 and have appeared on ATBW Blog since 1991, 2020 is heavily defined as the year they became famous. It ended for good on September 27, 2020.

On October 2, 2020, CCTV was one of several ATBW Blog companies to participate in the 2020 anti-piracy crackdown made by ATBW Copyright Agency which would stop piracy as the company itself was dealing with piracy issues alone. This would last for a prolonged time.

On December 17, 2020, CCTV had made plans to separate CCTV Online into a separate company, and on December 27, 2020, CCTV Productions confirmed that it would indeed be spinning off CCTV Online into a separate company to cope with the Caltrose25V5 Recession, and new online multiplayer games from 2021 onwards will be controlled by CCTV Interactive under CCTV Online Games. Y Levi posted a poll to name the two companies CCTV Red and CCTV Blue, though this was quickly opposed by Mang before it was able to make mainstream headlines across ATBW Blog.

On January 2, 2021, CCTV Online became a separate company following approval from ATBW Blog as well as the CCTV's board of directors. As a result, Mang came back to CCTV Productions to become the company's CEO since leaving in 2020, even though Mang remained president during that time. Ezekiel Palmer was appointed as CCTV Online's new CEO, who would run the company. Additionally, All pre-March 2020 online multiplayer games which include California City Street Racers, California City Defense, and California City Pimp Wars. New online games March 2020 and onwards including California City Monochromatic World are released by CCTV Interactive.

On February 4, 2021, CCTV began a towing team to deal with unwanted parking, in which numerous people have taken their parking lot to park their car to go to the beach across from the company's corporate office. A 2003 Freightliner Columbia is used as a prop to catch anyone attempting to park in the company's parking lot. Not only are they parking in the parking lot intentionally, but they are also parking in the "periwinkle blue" parking spaces, which are reserved only for staff who work at the company. A total of 17 cars were towed within 4 hours.

On June 8, 2021, Kirti Mang left the company to become the CEO of Ramworks Software and continue overseeing things there, though he would remain president of CCTV Productions for some time. He was succeeded by Lamar Brown, who has had a long relationship with him and the company.

On August 29, 2021, Kirti Mang stepped down from President and completely left the company to focus exclusively on Ramworks Software, which came after its president Jim Randolph left there to go back to Lancerware. He was succeeded by David Burkins that same day. Mang will still continue to work on California City Show and other TV shows from CCTV Productions as both director and writer.

Controversy
In June 2019, CCTV Productions was cited controversy following the popularity of the Game And Play, which continued to get even more popular into the start of 2020, which spawned the Game And Play Act (2020) which would regulate it. It was signed into law in January 2020 and was going to go into effect on February 3, 2020. However, the bill was deemed unconstitutional by lawmakers and the judicial branch, which led to it quickly getting vetoed. It still dropped the game's popularity later on, however, and some stores began enforcing them as early as January 14, 2020. One store in particular, the Moose Store, quickly imposed a ban on selling the game device on January 8, 2020 to anyone under 21 in order to curb it from popularity, though this however only sparked a local riot towards the store, and the new policy was lifted on January 24, 2020 due to not being fair.

In April of 2020, CCTV Productions was cited controversy again, this time following the measures put in place during the Caltrose25V5 attack, which allowed it's online games to remain open, but with strict limitations. This quickly and easily led to the Caltrose25V5 Unrest, which took place from April 2, 2020 to April 26, 2020 when several gamers vandalized it's corporate office. Despite ending on April 26, people continued to protest until it ended on May 3, 2020 when the attack was declared over and everything resumed to normal, but with new post-Caltrose rules put in place to prevent further damage.

In July 2020, CCTV Productions was temporarily banned as it aired an episode of Hanging With Seychelle, which showed her eating a gerapple aired on CCTV Network. This episode was pulled from airing and has never aired again, though it still airs on Martha Woods Network, which is where the show airs now since Seychelle Productions was sold to Martha Woods Entertainment on July 13, 2020.

In February 2021, CCTV Productions began towing cars out of it's parking lot after numerous people parked their cars their for no reason. As a result, a towing company was formed to take cars out of the parking lot.

Fame
The company gained notable fame after California City, which initially debuted exclusively onto ATBW Blog in April 24, 2018, was created. This took only a few months to produce and the cartoon series spread like wildfire. The show eventually aired on television since May 2018 on ATBW's Comedy Humor, which airs more mature shows. Kirti had already been famous prior to this company, notably for earlier work on Ramblings with a college student while still in college in 2013, which is a game where the player has to rescue all the six colored rabbits, which are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. This game was made by Ramworks Software.

California City gained nearly 200 million viewers in mid 2019 and the company went to produce spin-offs to California City, including Cleetus & Family, Celo Johnson Jr Dirtbike Legends, Celo Johnson Jr Show, Escade Family (Joint-venture with Escade Studios, another, much older subsidiary of ATBW), Brown Show, etc, and made movies including California City Pimp Wars, released on April 26, 2018, and even went into the gaming industry again, making games like California City Street Racers, released on May 8, 2018, California City Pimp Wars, released on May 13, 2018, and California City Defense, released on May 18, 2018, all developed by CCTV Interactive and published by ATBW Label Networks.

Divisions
The company has some divisions of its own, which are CCTV Interactive, which is in charge of game publishing, CCTV Records, which is mostly a hip-hop record which also holds mature rated recordings, and CCTV Online, which is technically the division that is responsible for the operations of California City Street Racers and California City Defense. It also operates CCTV Television, which syndicates its programming on CCTV Network, and CCTV Films, which makes films distributed by ATBW Pictures.