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Public to comment on TV fees

Metro | Media
2009-11-6

SHANGHAI residents are facing an increase in their monthly cable TV bills that could run as high as 77 percent as the city switches from analog signals to digital. City regulators announced two price adjustment...

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TV license fees face digital review

Metro | Media
2009-10-22

THE city's price bureau will hold a hearing on the adjustment of cable TV license fees on November 23 as the downtown network upgrades from analog to digital. The fee is now 13 yuan (US$1.90) a month. About 2.5...

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City digital TV expands

Metro | Media
2009-10-21

AROUND 2.5 million Shanghai families will be able to enjoy TV shows with better image quality starting in 2011 when the city completes an upgrade of its cable network from analog to digital in the downtown. Residents...

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City upgrades TV network to digital

Metro | Media
2009-10-20

ABOUT 2.5 million households in downtown Shanghai will be able to enjoy high definition quality TV programs from 2011 when the city upgrades its TV network from analog to digital signals. Residents will then be...

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City newspaper chalks up 80 years of excellence

Metro | Media
2009-9-10

THE daily newspaper with the biggest circulation in Shanghai celebrated its 80th anniversary yesterday. Xinmin Evening News, formerly known as Xinmin Po, first hit the streets on September 9, 1929. As a publication...

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Media meeting

Metro | Media
2009-6-18

THE first annual meeting on media information resources held by the China Association of Press Technicians opened at the headquarters of Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group yesterday. Experts discussed the application...

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Satellite news

Metro | Media
2009-4-29

THE country's first satellite transmission vehicle owned by a newspaper group went into operation yesterday. The Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group vehicle will be used for live news broadcasting for the group's...

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A good read

Metro | Media
2009-4-22

SHANGHAI Daily has been judged "excellent" by the Shanghai Press and Publication Administration. Of 97 newspapers inspected, 26 were excellent, while 32 were "bad," with an error rate above 0.1 percent.

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Small firms banned from TV shopping

Metro | Media
2009-4-14

SMALL companies will be banned from home-shopping services on television in the near future as the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administrative Bureau moves to regulate the practice. The bureau announced that...

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Shanghai Daily on cell phones

Metro | Media
2009-3-27

MOBILE phone users in Shanghai will be able to receive the Shanghai Daily mobile newspaper every morning from today. The daily morning edition mobile paper will target foreigners living in Shanghai, educated white-collar...

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Sex advertising gets a knock-back

Metro | Media
2009-2-13

THE Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administrative Bureau has banned sex disease treatment and sex medicine advertisements on taxis, buses and boats in the city. The ban includes contraceptives and medical equipment,...

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Big Big Wolf makes big big business

Metro | Media
2009-1-19

CHINESE cartoon film "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" has made a good start at the Shanghai box office since opening on Friday. According to Shanghai United Cinema Lines, the city's leading cinema chain, the film...

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Newspaper tops expat survey

Metro | Media
2008-12-12

SHANGHAI Daily is the most-read English-language publication for foreigners in Shanghai, according to a study released yesterday at the Media and China Forum held in the Journalism Department of Fudan University. ...

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IPTV viewers soar

Metro | Media
2008-8-5

THANKS to a replay function that enables users to watch programs that aired within the past 48 hours, applications for IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, are booming in Shanghai ahead of the Olympic Games. China...

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Open up a piece of history on Sunday

Metro | Media
2008-7-4

HISTORY will be made this weekend with the launch in Shanghai of China's first English-language Sunday newspaper. Sunday, the Shanghai Daily's new edition, will open a whole new world of weekend reading for residents...