Shanghai Media Group

Radio and Television Station of Shanghai
Shanghai Media Group
上海广播电视台、上海文化广播影视集团有限公司

Current logo since 2024 (Current SMG logo design since 2014)
Type	State media
Country	People's Republic of China
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; 24 years ago (2001)
Official website	www.smg.cn

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.

As of September 2024, the Media and Journalism Research Center evaluated the Shanghai Media Group, to be "Captured Public or State Managed/Owned Media" under its State Media Matrix.^[1][2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4] 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).^[5] 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.^[6]

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.^[7]

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.^[8] In 2015, Alibaba Group paid 1.2 billion yuan ($193.5 million) to Shanghai Media Group for 30% of CBN's stocks.^[9][10][11] In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated Yicai Global as a foreign mission of the Chinese government.^[12][13]

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.^[14]

• Dwelling Narrowness
• We Got Married – a special Valentine's Day Chinese version^[15]

• Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
• Earth: One Amazing Day (2017)^[16]
• Born in China (2016) Along with Disneynature
• Kiangnan 1894 (2019)^[17]

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