On February 11, 2021, China’s leading broadcast organization celebrated Lunar New Year’s Eve with a live, 8K UHD 5G TV broadcast of a national spring festival event that eclipsed all of the night’s other live coverage. As the first-ever live 8K UHD 5G TV broadcast, the event marked not only the beginning of a new year, but also the position of China as a key competitor in global 8K UHD 5G TV development. Enabled by the Matrox SMPTE ST 2110 network interface controller (NIC) and SDI I/O card-equipped China Digital Video (CDV) Graphite 8K online character generator (CG) system, the leading broadcast organization was able to provide transcendent real-time coverage of one of China’s biggest televised events of the year.