Dragon Television

Shanghai Dragon Television or Dragon TV (Chinese: 东方卫视; pinyin: Dōngfāng Wèishì; lit. 'Eastern satellite channel') is a provincial satellite TV station. It launched in October 1998 as "Shanghai Television" but changed its name to Dragon Television on October 23, 2003.^[1] Currently, Dragon TV's signal covers most of mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas in North America, Japan^{[citation needed]}, Australia, Europe, Worldwide and other countries and regions landing. From September 28, 2009, the channel used standard high-definition broadcast.

Dragon Television

Country	People's Republic of China
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Shanghai
Programming
Picture format	576i (SDTV) (1998-) 1080i (HDTV) (2009-)
Ownership
Owner	Shanghai Media Group
History
Launched	October 1, 1998 (as Shanghai Television)
Links
Website	www.youtube.com/user/kankanewstvshow (YouTube)
Availability
Streaming media
Sling TV	Internet Protocol television

History

All of Dragon TV's news programs are owned by the parent company SMG TV news production center. The center has a professional staff of 500 people a day, 7 sections provided for the Dragon TV news programs which amounts a total of five hours. It is Asia's largest open-press studio and the largest television news production and broadcasting of news organizations. Now Available On TVB Network Vision Channel 88, Cable TV Hong Kong Channel 21, HKBN BBTV Channel 715 and the SPB TV OTT TV.

News programs include Morning (看东方), Dragon TV News Midday (午间30分), and Primetime News (东方新闻).

References

1. "Shanghai plans all English TV channel" People's Daily Online. 23 October 2003. Retrieved 2012-10-01

External links

• 中国上海东方卫视 on Facebook
• 东方卫视番茄台 on Sina Weibo (in Chinese)
• SMG上海电视台官方频道 SMG Shanghai TV Official Channel's channel on YouTube