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News on the Chinese Media

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Television drama

CCTV bigwig latest to be detained for graft
Jun 6, 2014 (WiC 240)

As befits an obedient state TV channel, China Central Television (CCTV) has been diligent in its coverage of much of the government’s ongoing anti-corruption drive. Come the start of this week, however, the broadcaster turned strangely ...

Is Beijing about to loosen its grip on Hollywood imports?
Apr 11, 2014 (WiC 233)

China’s movie industry looks set for a major shakeup. Han Sanping, the boss of China Film Group Corp, has just retired from the key state-owned monopoly (for more on which, see WiC231) and Dong Ping, Han’s private-sector equivalent, sold the ...

Exit, stage left

Chinese cinema’s most powerful man retires
Mar 28, 2014 (WiC 231)

At a dinner with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Han Sanping once asked the DreamWorks CEO if he was any good at poker. According to Chinese media reports, the American smiled and shook his head. That led an enthusiastic Han – head of the China Film Group ...

Losing the battle for eyeballs

CCTV coy on its ad auction results. Is Baidu the reason?
Dec 6, 2013 (WiC 219)

In November state broadcaster CCTV ran a feature targeting 45 property developers for failing to pay at least Rmb3.8 trillion ($624.1 billion) in tax between 2005 and 2012. The report – which named major players like SOHO China and Vanke as ...

“No, Mr Murdoch”

Meet the dealmaker shaking up China’s media
Nov 29, 2013 (WiC 218)

Rupert Murdoch once tried to persuade Li Ruigang, now chairman of the state-backed fund China Media Capital (CMC) to be his chief executive at Star Media China. Then 33, Li was a Party official heading Shanghai Media Group, (SMG), a major ...

Violent change looms for cartoon industry
Oct 25, 2013 (WiC 213)

About a century ago IBM was making weighing scales and cheese slicers. Then it opted to focus on computers instead. Decades later Nokia made a similarly radical switch, ditching paper products and rubber boots to make mobile phones. Hong ...

A major merger between key TV production firms
Aug 23, 2013 (WiC 205)

It’s not every day that you hear a television studio being compared to a fast food chain. But Zhejiang Huace Film and TV did just that when it announced at the end of last month that it will acquire the smaller and unlisted Shanghai-based ...

A billion sports fans watch it

CCTV-5 is one of the world’s most powerful sports channels
Apr 12, 2013 (WiC 188)

Why do our cable bills keep going up? The answer to a question that has irritated American TV audiences for years is particularly galling for non-sports fans, on news that sports coverage now accounts for about half of the programming costs in a ...

Huayi claims Bingo win

Movie studios in dispute over who gets bulk of blockbuster’s profits
Mar 8, 2013 (WiC 184)

In Stephen Chow’s action-comedy Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, the character Tang Sanzang struggles to defeat fish and pig demons, as well as the wicked Monkey King. In real life, there’s a parallel drama unfolding ...

Animation firm hopes five hamsters will conquer China
Oct 5, 2012 (WiC 167)

Walt Disney came up with Mickey Mouse. In the 1970s the Japanese blessed us all with the invention of Hello Kitty. But China is still to unleash an iconic cartoon character of its own. Could the solution be five, Mandarin-speaking ...

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