How is the news anchor of CCTV punished for reading wrong words?

Grading depends on the situation.

Deduct 50 for a wrong word, but it was 200 before. From anchor to editor (introduced by Xing Zhibin).

Here's a message:

If there is an irreparable mistake, the host will be laid off the day after he broadcasts the news.

Li Ruiying revealed that when an anchor of CCTV broadcast "West Coast of the Taiwan Strait", he misspelled it as "both sides of the Taiwan Strait". Therefore, the deputy director of CCTV held a full-day meeting on this issue to the "News Network" program group on the second day of the program broadcast, emphasizing that the difference between words may cause irreparable losses.

It is precisely because of the particularity and importance of News Network that CCTV imposes very strict penalties on this column. Li Ruiying revealed that the host's slip of the tongue of News Network can be divided into four categories: A, B, C and D, and the most serious mistake of category A is called "the method of death on the spot". If there is an irreparable mistake, the host will be laid off the day after he broadcasts the news. In order to avoid unfamiliar words when broadcasting news, the anchors almost never leave Xinhua Dictionary.