Titan Sports Media Group

Titan Sports Media Group
Industry Multi-media Group
Founded 1988
Headquarters Changsha and Beijing, China
Products
Website www.titan24.com (Chinese Only)

Titan Sports Media Group (Chinese: 体坛传媒集团) is one of the most influential sports media groups in China.[1]

Name

When it was founded as a sports newspaper, the Chinese name of the media group was 体坛, which means sports field. "体坛" is pronounced as tǐtán in Chinese pinyin (The Chinese official romantization system of Chinese characters). The name was then translated as Titan in English, the word used to refer to the descendants of the gods in Greek Mythology.

History

Titan Sports Media Group and Éditions Philippe Amaury signed a cooperation agreement on Aug. 29th, 2016

Titan Sports Media Group was initially founded in 1988 in Changsha, Hunan province as Titan Sports. At the time of its foundation, Titan Sports was a regional newspaper owned by Hunan Sports General Association. During the 1990s, Titan Sports became the most circulated sports newspaper in China.[2] Titan Sports Media Group has published nine magazines, including Football Weekly, All Sports, Slam, Outside, Golf Digest, Runner's, Auto Bild, Women's Health and MiLK.

In 2006, two years before the Beijing Summer Olympics, the Beijing headquarters of Titan Sports Media Group was established.

In April 2009, Qu Youyuan, the chief editor and part owner of the Titan Media Group, along with a deputy involved in accounting, were taken from their Beijing office and detained by Communist Party disciplinary authorities in Hunan. The action was reportedly related to bribery charges leveled against former sports-authority officials Fu Guoliang and Huang Ying, both arrested for corruption in 2008.[3]

In 2015, Titan Sports Media Group launched its subsidiary and mobile app Titan Sports Plus, as its online news platform. Titan Sports Plus is also the locomotive of the development of Titan Sports Media Group in multi-media and sports industries.

See Also

References

  1. ↑ "Introduction of Titan Sports Media Group (in Chinese) 体坛传媒". titan24.com. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  2. ↑ "The evolutionary milestones of Titan Sports (in Chinese) 体坛传媒大事记". titan24.com. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  3. ↑ "Chief of top sports newspaper detained". scmp.com. 2009-05-01. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
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