Dragon Television

Dragon Television
Launched	October 1, 1998 (as Shanghai Metropolitan Television)
Owned by	Shanghai Media Group
Country	People's Republic of China
Headquarters	Shanghai
Website	http://www.dragontv.cn/
Availability
Satellite
Around Asia, Oceania 115.5 ° E Central Star No. 6B	3808 H 8800
China including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan 92.2°E Central Star No. 9	11880 L 28800
Greater China (overseas edition) 138 ° E Asia-Pacific No. 5	12538 V 41248
Japan (Overseas Edition) 124 ° E, Japan Communication No. 4A	12643 H 21096
Australian Jade Interactive TV	3
SKY PerfecTV! Japan	Channel 781
Dish Network (United States)	Channel 9930
Cable
Hong Kong TVB Pay Vision Limited	Channel 55
Macau Cable TV	Channel 15
ABNXcess (Malaysia)	Channel 313
IPTV
mio TV (Singapore)	Channel 36(has been cease transmission on 1 august 2012 and replaced by Jiangsu Satellite Channel)

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

History

All of Dragon TV's news program 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 5 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 and HKBN BBTV Channel 715

Programmes

Currently, Dragon TV news program a total of eight section, including 4 news type of program, and 4 news feature shows, presentations and broadcast news programs specifically as follows:

• Look East: a morning live broadcasts, including various types of news information and life aspect, Monday to Friday morning 7:00-9:00, Saturday 7:00-8:30 Sunday morning broadcast.
• "Global News Station": contains the latest domestic and international news, Mon-Fri 12:00-12:30 midday broadcast.
• Tale of Two Cities: Hong Kong and Taiwan Political talk show, broadcast every Saturday afternoon 12:00-12:30.
• Global Weekly: China Radio International co-production, discussion of Global hot spots weekly, every Sunday 12:00-12:30 midday broadcast.
• The East News: Global news, authority issued on June 18, 2009 where the program extendes one hour broadcast every night 18:00-19:00.
• Huítóu Shì Àn (回頭釋案): Documentary type programs from 2009
• Eastern Evening News: Comb news, click on the key, 22:30-23: 00 live.
• Depth 105': co-produced with the Xinhua News Agency, depth news commentary program, divided into world affairs, very Avenue, old news that the three sections, weekly broadcast on the evening of 22:30-23:30.

References

External links

• Dragon TV official website