Shanghai Media Group
State-owned broadcaster in Shanghai, China
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Radio and Television Station of Shanghai (RTS), a Shanghai-based state media outlet, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Shanghai Media Group (SMG), represent one of the largest state-owned media conglomerates of the People's Republic of China, with the most complete portfolio of media and related businesses.
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Current logo since 2024 (Current SMG logo design since 2014) | |
| Type | State media |
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| Motto | Spread upward power and enrich people's lives (传播向上力量，丰富大众生活) |
| Headquarters | Shanghai |
Launch date | 2001 |
Official website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 上海文化广播影视集团有限公司 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 上海文化廣播影視集團有限公司 | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 上海广播电视台 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 上海廣播電視台 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Radio and Television Station of Shanghai | ||||||||||
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History
Formed in 2001, SMG is the result of a merger between the People's Radio Station of Shanghai, East Radio Shanghai, Shanghai Television, and Oriental Television.[citation needed] In 2003 the group conducted a feasibility study with a view to set up a new English channel.[1] It renamed its Shanghai Broadcasting Network to Dragon TV and moved that channel's best-known English program "News at Ten" to Shanghai Television Business Channel and Dragon TV.[2] In January 2008, the Group launch a 24-hour English TV news channel, (ICS – International Channel Shanghai), the second in China after the state-owned China Central Television's English channel (CCTV-9).[3] The content of ICS News is distributed on mobile and internet platforms by US Company China Animation Partners, LLC.[citation needed]
English radio programming includes "Live It Up, Shanghai" broadcasts on the East Radio channel (792am and 89.9fm).[citation needed]
On 2 October the Group hosted special concert to mark the 20th anniversary of South Korea and China's diplomatic ties, with performers including along Kim Jang-hoon, Super Junior-M and EXO-K.[4]
The Walt Disney Studios and Shanghai Media Group Pictures signed a movie development agreement, before 6 March 2014 announcement, in which Chinese themes would be incorporated into Disney branded movies.[5]
Shanghai Media Group is the holding company of Yicai Global (China) (formerly known as China Business Network), which in addition to the TV channel also runs a magazine named CBN Weekly, a newspaper called CBN Paper, radio channel CBN Radio and a number of websites carrying the name.[6][7] In 2015, Alibaba Group paid 1.2 billion yuan ($193.5 million) to Shanghai Media Group for 30% of CBN's stocks.[8][9][10] In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated Yicai Global as a foreign mission of the Chinese government.[11][12]
Television channels
Free channels
| Channel | Channel content | Launch Date |
| Dragon TV | main commercial terrestrial channel Free-to-air in Shanghai only formerly known as Shanghai Television | 23 October 2003 1 October 1998 (Shanghai Television) |
| STV | general and news channel | 1 October 1958 |
| Yicai | financial news channel formerly known as Shanghai Television Economy | 1 August 2003 |
| City TV | entertainment channel formerly known as Shanghai Television Lifestyle and Fashion formerly known as Oriental Television | 1 January 2019 |
| Oriental Film | films, TV show series, and their relative informations | 26 December 1992 |
| Great Sports | sports channel formerly known as Shanghai Television Sports | 8 October 2001 |
| Oriental Shopping | Infomercial channels | 1 January 2008 |
| Toonmax | children animation channel | 1 January 2019 |
| Oriental Pearl Mobile Television | information channel specific used for metros, buses and outdoor LED panels | 27 February 1994 |
Pay channels
| Channel | Channel content | Launch Date |
| Golden Class | learning platform for old peoples
(de facto free channel in Shanghai since 1 March 2021)||18 June 2021 | |
| Seven-color Opera | Opera contents in Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang
(de facto free channel in Shanghai) |
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| Oriental Financial | financial comments
(known as Oriental Financial-Pudong)|| | |
| World of the Law | legality contents | |
| New vision | sports records, mainly football contents | |
| UUSee Sports | sports informations | |
| Fascination Football | football matches | 21 March 2020 |
| Happy color | lottery, CFA Super League | 1 September 2010 |
| SiTV max | automobile informations | |
| Full Documentary | documentary channel | |
| Animation Show | animation contents | |
| Urban Theater | TV series | |
| Laugh Theater | films, arts, documentary and sports informations | |
| Lifestyle | international fashion contents | |
| Gamefy | video games live and e-sport events | December 2004 |
Radio stations
All Channels are using callsigns with a prefix of "Shanghai People's Radio Station"(Chinese: 上海人民广播电台), but most programmes of them has been produced by of SMG Radio Centre (Chinese: 东方广播中心) (a.k.a. Shanghai East Radio Company Limited, Chinese: 上海东方广播有限公司) since 2014.[13]
| Frequency | Description |
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| 990 AM / FM 93.4 | Shanghai News Radio (Former Shanghai People's Radio Station) |
| 648 AM / FM 105.7 | Shanghai Jiaotong Guangbo (Traffic Radio of Shanghai) |
| 1296 AM / FM 90.9 | Dong Guang Xinwen Tai (Created by former Shanghai People's Radio Station, not East Radio Company) |
| 792 AM / 89.9 FM | Dong Fang Dushi Guangbo (Driving FM) |
| 101.7 FM | Popular Music (POP 101) (Mandopop) |
| 103.7 FM | Love Music |
| 94.7 FM | Classical 94.7 |
| 97.7 FM | Economic/Business News (Diyi Caijing a.k.a. CBN) |
| 107.2 FM | Story Channel (The Story Broadcast of Shanghai) |
| 1197 AM / FM 97.2 | Marine Channel |
| 94.0 FM | Sports News (The Five-Star Sport News Channel) |
| 98.1 FM | Western Pop Music (KFM 981) |
Programmes
- Dwelling Narrowness
- Global Business News
- We Got Married – a special Valentine's Day Chinese version[14]
Films
- Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
- Last Flight (2014)
- Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
- Born in China (2016) Along with Disneynature
- Earth: One Amazing Day (2017)[15]
- 21 Carats (2018)
- Kiangnan 1894 (2019)[16]
