"Shanghai Media Group, Inc. operates as a media and entertainment company. The company focuses on broadcasting and TV; and entertainment and sports, technical services, research and development, and investment. It operates analog TV channels, analog radios, pay digital TV channels, broadband online TV, newspapers and magazines, and sports clubs. The company produces TV and radio programs in news, entertainment, sports, finance, and music. It also produces TV series, documentaries, and cartoons. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Shanghai, China. Shanghai Media Group, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group".
A Subsidiary of the Largest Media Group in China
"SMEG, SMG, and SFG are strictly state-owned corporations under the authority of the Shanghai government. They form a tentacular galaxy whose sales figures and results have been carefully kept secret for nearly ten years. In 2003, SMEG and its “stakeholder/supervisor”, the Government of Shanghai, have decided to appoint at the helm of the Shanghai Media Group a 37-year-old Shanghainese, an English-speaking Shanghai TV journalist who graduated from Columbia University. This decision and, mostly, its results, quickly proved to be groundbreaking".
Shanghai’s Digital ORTF
"In China, radio and television broadcasting is a government monopoly, so channels are operated only by national companies such as CCTV (TV) and CRTV (radio) or local/regional companies. Like France’s ORTF, SMG holds the monopoly for the 16 million residents of Shanghai and the surrounding area – China’s economic capital. SMG edits:
- 10 regional Hertzian TV networks, 3 national TV networks, 90 digital TV networks (both regional and national), accounting for 65-70% of Shanghai’s TV audience (see Table 2)
Hertzian TV networks operated by SMG
- 10 regional Hertzian radio stations and 20 regional and national digital radio stations (90%+ of local radio audience)
Hertzian radio stations operated by SMG
"Across all its antennas, SMG is broadcasting daily 252 hours of TV programming and 234 hours of radio programming. 60% of its TV channels’ programming and 95% of its radio content is still produced internally".
"SMG also owns five sports teams and their training facilities, two magazines, and numerous websites (among which Eastday, one of China’s t"op 10 websites). Finally, the group is also one of Shanghai’s cable company’s three stockholders and the sole stockholder of the Shanghai Pearl Tower, a Hertzian broadcast center and an emblematic figure of the city. All these operations involve over 6,000 collaborators".
10 Years of Partnerships
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. Agrees to Form Joint Venture with China Media Capital with Plans to Include Shanghai Media Group, Inc. and Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. to Establish China-Focused Family Entertainment Company
"DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. announced that it has agreed to form a joint venture with China Media Capital with plans to include Shanghai Media Group, Inc. and Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. to establish the China-focused family entertainment company. Oriental DreamWorks will engage in the development and production of high-quality original Chinese animated and live action content for distribution both within China and to other territories around the globe. In addition to content creation, the joint venture will pursue business opportunities in the areas of live entertainment, theme parks, mobile, online, interactive games and consumer products. The Chinese companies will hold a majority stake of approximately 55% in Oriental DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation will hold approximately 45%. The enterprise will initially be capitalized with cash and intellectual property valued at $330 million. The joint venture plans to launch business operations in Shanghai later 2012".
Shanghai Media Group, Inc. and Ball-IT Oy Launch Blobo Fitness Gaming for Chinese Kids and Families
"Shanghai Media Group, Inc. and Ball-IT Oy have signed a partnership agreement. SMG will start to produce a TV game show based on Ball-IT's gaming innovation blobo, and will broadcast 26 episodes in China in the second half of 2012. The blobo TV show will initially reach 30 million households, with the ultimate target being to reach 200 million households. The TV show is based on the blobo gaming system - a motion control and fitness gaming device that works with PCs and MACs via Bluetooth. The single golfball-sized wireless wonder, blobo, captures even the smallest movements of the human body, being a genuine fitness gaming experience. The games combine excitement with all-round family fun. The sales box for Chinese consumers consists of a blobo device, a Bluetooth adapter (needed for computers without built-in Bluetooth), and 8 Fun&Fit games. At first blobo will be sold in China through 1,500 retail shops, including SMG's own digital and electronics supermarkets, later aiming for nationwide broadcast and marketing".
China Unicom Shanghai and Shanghai Media Group, Inc. to Provide High-Definition TV Service
"China Unicom Shanghai announced that it will cooperate with Shanghai Media Group, Inc. to provide high-definition TV service by virtue of the optical fiber network of Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company".
"DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. announced that it has agreed to form a joint venture with China Media Capital with plans to include Shanghai Media Group, Inc. and Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. to establish the China-focused family entertainment company. Oriental DreamWorks will engage in the development and production of high-quality original Chinese animated and live action content for distribution both within China and to other territories around the globe. In addition to content creation, the joint venture will pursue business opportunities in the areas of live entertainment, theme parks, mobile, online, interactive games and consumer products. The Chinese companies will hold a majority stake of approximately 55% in Oriental DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation will hold approximately 45%. The enterprise will initially be capitalized with cash and intellectual property valued at $330 million. The joint venture plans to launch business operations in Shanghai later 2012".
Shanghai Media Group, Inc. and Ball-IT Oy Launch Blobo Fitness Gaming for Chinese Kids and Families
"Shanghai Media Group, Inc. and Ball-IT Oy have signed a partnership agreement. SMG will start to produce a TV game show based on Ball-IT's gaming innovation blobo, and will broadcast 26 episodes in China in the second half of 2012. The blobo TV show will initially reach 30 million households, with the ultimate target being to reach 200 million households. The TV show is based on the blobo gaming system - a motion control and fitness gaming device that works with PCs and MACs via Bluetooth. The single golfball-sized wireless wonder, blobo, captures even the smallest movements of the human body, being a genuine fitness gaming experience. The games combine excitement with all-round family fun. The sales box for Chinese consumers consists of a blobo device, a Bluetooth adapter (needed for computers without built-in Bluetooth), and 8 Fun&Fit games. At first blobo will be sold in China through 1,500 retail shops, including SMG's own digital and electronics supermarkets, later aiming for nationwide broadcast and marketing".
China Unicom Shanghai and Shanghai Media Group, Inc. to Provide High-Definition TV Service
"China Unicom Shanghai announced that it will cooperate with Shanghai Media Group, Inc. to provide high-definition TV service by virtue of the optical fiber network of Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company".