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Hunan Television or Hunan TV () is a state-owned provincial satellite TV station launched on September 29, 1970. It is currently China's second-most-watched television channel, second to China Central Television's CCTV-1, although Hunan TV has occasionally overtaken CCTV-1 in ratings. "湖南卫视年终晒业绩 09全年收视全国第二" China News Service (CNS). 28 January 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-23
Owned by Hunan Broadcasting System, Hunan TV's signal covers most of China, including Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It is also broadcast overseas as Hunan STV World in Japan, India, Nepal, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Tajikistan, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, and parts of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. The channel has broadcast in high-definition since September 28, 2009. The appearance of its logo has resulted in the nickname of Mango TV.
On May 20, 2009, Hunan TV World launched in Hong Kong. It was the first permitted "international channel." Aria Jin served as the host of "Shoot, Brother!"只卖地道湖南农产品 《出手吧，兄弟！》2小时卖货超亿元, Huasheng Online (in Chinese), 8 June 2020
In 2015, because of changes to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television's policies, HSTV changed prime-time broadcasts to show 2 episodes per night instead of 3 and changed the start of air time from 19:30 to 20:00. It is the only channel besides CCTV that airs drama at 22:00.
In 2017, the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party criticized Hunan TV for chasing ratings, saying that "they have failed to fulfill the mission of being a mouthpiece of the Party." They also claimed that the channel is a "platform for gay entertainment," that its female guests show too much skin, that it advertises fake products, and that it trades social benefits for economic ones.
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