MUMBAI: According to a report, China‘s domestic film industry has hit a five-year low despite robust growth in box office sales across the country in the...
MUMBAI: Pan Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has gone off the air in China after the authorities refused to renew their permits last week....
MUMBAI: The mobile video market in China will take off in 2008, driven by interest in the Beijing Olympics. A new study from ABI Research published...
MUMBAI: China’s cartoon industry produced more than 81,000 minutes of animation this year, almost double last year’s 42,700 minutes. An official with the State Administration of...
MUMBAI: China has adopted a policy in disallowing the creation of new joint venture companies dealing with television and film production. The decision sets aside rules...
MUMBAI: China will begin trial broadcasts of mobile television by mid-2007. The digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) technology will be tested next year and a satellite system...
MUMBAI: China will soon unveil a locally developed terrestrial digital TV standard, Xinhua News Agency has reported. Wang Xiaojie, director of the technology department of State...
MUMBAI: Foreign cartoons will no more be a source of entertainment for Chinese kids. From 1 September, cartoon series produced outside of China will be banned...
MUMBAI: China is progressing towards a complete shift to digital signal television. An official from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has been...
MUMBAI: Venezuela and China have signed a mutual agreement on program exchange and training of television and radio broadcast professionals. The deal was signed between Venezuelan...
MUMBAI: China’s broadcasting watchdog State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has issued a notice banning its local broadcasters from using news footage taken from...
CANNES: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will host its second International Academy Day on 16 and 17 August in Beijing in conjunction with...
MUMBAI: The hit Chinese talent search reality show The Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Supergirl Contest is being targeted by Chinese media regulators seeking to either change...
MUMBAI: China has approved the first batch of cartoon adaptations of classic mythologies and historical novels for 2006. However, The State Administration of Radio, Film and...
MUMBAI: China has brought out new regulations for foreign investment, technology and expertise to promote the country’s broadcasting and film industry. Jointly issued by the State...
MUMBAI: Coming not-so-soon to TV screens in the People’s Republic of China, a kids channel created under the “guidance” of the Communist Party of China (CPC)....
MUMBAI: A circular issued by China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) emphasises improving the quality and quantity of domestically created cartoons, while at...
MUMBAI: Conax AS received the State Administration of Film and Television (SARFT) CA certification for supplying its conditional access solution to the Chinese market. Conex, a...
MUMBAI: Business should be soon booming on television. During the Mipcom ’04 MIPTV/MILIA, which took place 29 March – 2 April ’04 in Cannes, it was...
CANNES: For all those doomsayers who said MipTV was out, the verdict is that it is back and with a vengeance. According to Reed Midem television...
BEIJING: China plans to push ahead with its campaign to develop digital television (DTV) cable broadcasting and use the European-dominated standard as a transitional measure. Last...
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific and Shanghai Media Group jointly announced a strategic partnership today. The partnership announced today has two initial elements. The first is to...
BEIJING: Bloomberg Television has been awarded one of the two fresh licenses issued so far this year by the Chinese broadcast regulator, to distribute its English-language...
MUMBAI: CASBAA’s China Summit, scheduled to take place on 26 September in Shanghai, will instead be held in late November. Citing scheduling issues, SARFT, the ministry...
Tektronix, the video test, measurement, and monitoring solutions company, will partner with the Academy of Broadcasting Science (ABS) to establish a national digital broadcasting research and...
The 5th Casbaa China Roundtable in Beijing and Shanghai, held between 11 and 13 September, attracted significant support from government officials, mainland operating companies and Casbaa...

