Shanghai Media Group
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Shanghai Media Group (Chinese
: 上海文广新闻传媒集团, Pinyin
: Shànghǎi Wénguǎng Xīnwén Chuánméi Jítuán) under the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group
(SMEG), is a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company. The company employs around 5,200 people, with capital assets totalling RMB 11.7 billion.
Formed in 2001, SMG is the result of a merger between the People’s Radio Station of Shanghai, East Radio Shanghai, Shanghai Television Station, and Oriental Television Station.
SMG’s core business is television broadcasting and related media entertainment services including sports, showbiz, performance arts, science and technology, and finance. The television broadcasting media consist of 11 analogue TV channels, 90 digital paid cable TV channels, a full broadcasting Internet TV service, along with 10 analogue and 19 digital radio services. The group also operates and owns 5 sports centres and 14 cultural art centres. Other areas of operation include newspapers, magazines, news websites, and audio-visual publishing.
According to a survey of AC Nielsen, eleven of the group’s TV channels have achieved a market share of 76% during prime time in 2003. Revenue from advertising accounts for 10% of the commercial sales turnover in the local market. Being a producer and a publisher in the various fields of news, film, TV series, music, sports, finance, entertainment, and documentary, SMG is pushing itself towards the domestic and international Chinese-speaking market.
Through reinforcing financial initiatives, SMG is currently undergoing aggressive expansion into new areas such as pay cable TV services, programme patent sales, brand-related business, and programme innovation.
) will be China's second 24-hour foreign-language TV channel to broadcast nationwide after CCTV-9
.
China Central Television
, Shanghai Media's biggest rival and controlled by the central government, now operates an English channel (CCTV-9) which targets a foreign audience, but of which the main audience is English-speaking local people.
Shanghai Media also aims to broadcast the planned English news channel to countries in Asia, Europe, and North America through satellite or cooperation with local broadcasters. As a step in this direction, Shanghai Media through its distribution company Wings/Media has forged a relationship with a US Company China Animation Partners, LLC to distribute ICS News over New Media platforms including mobile and Internet http://tantaonews.com/. CNEWSCO, LLC, an affiliate of China Animation Partners, starting in 2009 has established a growing presence for ICS as well as other English language news shows produced by Shanghai Media including BizTime and Spotlight http://www.youtube.com/user/TantaoNews.
As for English programming on the radio in Shanghai, the city's only English-language radio talkshow "Live It Up, Shanghai" broadcasts on the East Radio channel (792am and 89.9fm). The programme was increased from its 2008 length of half an hour per day, to its current length in 2009 of 1 hour per day. It is broadcast between 11pm to midnight, seven days a week. Ticket giveaways and interviews with guests from all walks of life are a feature of the show. The programme was formally incorporated into SMG's programming schedule in January 2003, and has been hosted ever since by local radio host Kevin Wu (吴思源 Wu SiYuan) and Englishman Edward Morton Jack (who had previously been a producer, presenter and newsreader for Radio Television Hong Kong
(RTHK) in Hong Kong). The two have made a successful partnership, and the show has more than 3 times the number of listeners of the next nearest competitor in its timeslot.
Chinese language
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: 上海文广新闻传媒集团, Pinyin
Pinyin
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: Shànghǎi Wénguǎng Xīnwén Chuánméi Jítuán) under the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group
Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group
Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group is one of the largest media conglomerates in China. Founded on April 19, 2001, SMEG is a major media content provider in China that also manages other culture-related businesses such as performances, exhibitions, tourism and hotels.-Organization:The company...
(SMEG), is a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company. The company employs around 5,200 people, with capital assets totalling RMB 11.7 billion.
Formed in 2001, SMG is the result of a merger between the People’s Radio Station of Shanghai, East Radio Shanghai, Shanghai Television Station, and Oriental Television Station.
SMG’s core business is television broadcasting and related media entertainment services including sports, showbiz, performance arts, science and technology, and finance. The television broadcasting media consist of 11 analogue TV channels, 90 digital paid cable TV channels, a full broadcasting Internet TV service, along with 10 analogue and 19 digital radio services. The group also operates and owns 5 sports centres and 14 cultural art centres. Other areas of operation include newspapers, magazines, news websites, and audio-visual publishing.
According to a survey of AC Nielsen, eleven of the group’s TV channels have achieved a market share of 76% during prime time in 2003. Revenue from advertising accounts for 10% of the commercial sales turnover in the local market. Being a producer and a publisher in the various fields of news, film, TV series, music, sports, finance, entertainment, and documentary, SMG is pushing itself towards the domestic and international Chinese-speaking market.
Through reinforcing financial initiatives, SMG is currently undergoing aggressive expansion into new areas such as pay cable TV services, programme patent sales, brand-related business, and programme innovation.
Recent developments
In 2007, the Shanghai Media Group planned to launch a new all-English channel but as early as 2003 they were conducting a feasibility study before setting up a new channel . Launched in January 2008, the new channel (ICS - International Channel ShanghaiInternational Channel Shanghai
International Channel Shanghai, better known as ICS, is the foreign-language cable channel of Shanghai Media Group. Long before the parent company was known as SMG, Shanghai Television Station began producing the English-language “News at Ten” in 1986. On January 1, 2008, ICS replaced the Shanghai...
) will be China's second 24-hour foreign-language TV channel to broadcast nationwide after CCTV-9
CCTV-9
CCTV-9 is the documentary channel of the television network, CCTV in the People's Republic of China. This channel has a local Mandarin Chinese edition called CCTV-9, and an international English language edition called CCTV-9 Documentary. The English edition is carried by more satellites than the...
.
China Central Television
China Central Television
China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...
, Shanghai Media's biggest rival and controlled by the central government, now operates an English channel (CCTV-9) which targets a foreign audience, but of which the main audience is English-speaking local people.
Shanghai Media also aims to broadcast the planned English news channel to countries in Asia, Europe, and North America through satellite or cooperation with local broadcasters. As a step in this direction, Shanghai Media through its distribution company Wings/Media has forged a relationship with a US Company China Animation Partners, LLC to distribute ICS News over New Media platforms including mobile and Internet http://tantaonews.com/. CNEWSCO, LLC, an affiliate of China Animation Partners, starting in 2009 has established a growing presence for ICS as well as other English language news shows produced by Shanghai Media including BizTime and Spotlight http://www.youtube.com/user/TantaoNews.
As for English programming on the radio in Shanghai, the city's only English-language radio talkshow "Live It Up, Shanghai" broadcasts on the East Radio channel (792am and 89.9fm). The programme was increased from its 2008 length of half an hour per day, to its current length in 2009 of 1 hour per day. It is broadcast between 11pm to midnight, seven days a week. Ticket giveaways and interviews with guests from all walks of life are a feature of the show. The programme was formally incorporated into SMG's programming schedule in January 2003, and has been hosted ever since by local radio host Kevin Wu (吴思源 Wu SiYuan) and Englishman Edward Morton Jack (who had previously been a producer, presenter and newsreader for Radio Television Hong Kong
Radio Television Hong Kong
Radio Television Hong Kong is a public broadcasting organisation in Hong Kong that is operated as an independent department in the government under the Broadcasting Authority. RTHK operates seven radio channels, and produces television programmes that are then broadcast through local television...
(RTHK) in Hong Kong). The two have made a successful partnership, and the show has more than 3 times the number of listeners of the next nearest competitor in its timeslot.
List of Shanghai Media Group Stations
| Frequency | Description |
|---|---|
| 990 AM / FM 93.4 | News |
| 648 AM / FM 105.7 | Traffic |
| 1296 AM | Eastern China Regional News |
| 792 AM / 89.9 FM | Shanghai Local News |
| 101.7 FM | Popular Music (POP 101) (Mandopop Mandopop Mandopop is a colloquial abbreviation for "Mandarin popular music." It is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Mandopop was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. As the name implies, Mandopop features songs... ) |
| 103.7 FM | Love Music |
| 94.7 FM | Classical Music |
| 97.7 FM | Economic/Business News |
| 107.2 FM | Story Channel |
| 1197 AM / FM 97.2 | Marine Channel |
| 94.0 FM | Sports News |
List of Shanghai Media Group TV Channels
- News Channel
- Entertainment Channel
- Dragon TV (Satellite)DragonTVShanghai Dragon Television or Dragon TV is a provincial satellite TV station. It launch in October 1998 as 'Shanghai Television' but changed its name to Dragon Television on October 23, 2003...
- Ningxia TV (Satellite)
- CBN (China Business Network)
- Channel Young
- Channel of Fine Arts
- Sports Channel (or Greatsports Channel, G-Sports Channel)
- ICS (International Channel ShanghaiInternational Channel ShanghaiInternational Channel Shanghai, better known as ICS, is the foreign-language cable channel of Shanghai Media Group. Long before the parent company was known as SMG, Shanghai Television Station began producing the English-language “News at Ten” in 1986. On January 1, 2008, ICS replaced the Shanghai...
) - OCJ Channel
- Haha TV (Children's Channel)
- TV Drama Channel
- Documentary Channel
- Toonmax TV (Satellite)