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Mediapro renews rights for Chinese Professional Football League

Mediapro and the Chinese Professional Football League have renewed their agreement for the international commercialisation of audiovisual rights to the country’s leading football competitions for the 2026–2028 seasons. The group has been actively managing the international rights to Chinese football competitions since 2021. Under the renewed partnership, both organisations will continue working together to expand […]

March 12, 2026

Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China coming to BBC

Zinc Media Group’s international label, Brook Lapping, brings Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China (2 x 60”) to BBC Two and iPlayer. America and China: two vast military powers competing across the globe, but whose economies are deeply interconnected, even dependent on one another. Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China details the inside […]

March 10, 2026

Data: Q4 global TV shipments flat despite China slump

Global TV shipments remained flat year-on-year at 61.5 million units in Q2 2025, despite a sharp decline in China, according to data from Omdia’s TV Sets (Emerging Technologies) Market Tracker: History – 4Q25. Shipments in China fell by 25.3 per cent year-on-year, as government subsidies ended and many consumers brought forward upgrades over the past […]

March 3, 2026

iKOMG provides FAST, OTT distribution for CGTN

iKO Media Group (iKOMG), a specialist in end-to-end broadcasting and teleport services, has partnered with China Global Television Network (CGTN) to distribute three of its flagship channels – GlobalBiz TV, China Travel and Discovery China – across iKOMG’s FASTonSAT, iKOFLIX and MENAFLIX platforms. The agreement enables CGTN to extend the international availability of its news, […]

February 13, 2026

GlobalData: “FTTR still a specialist offering outside China”

Following the publication of an advisory report, Fibre-to-the-Room: Is There Room for FTTR?, examining the outlook for FTTR and why adoption remains heavily concentrated in China, despite growing global operator experimentation, Yousef Almadani, Senior Analyst, Telecom Technology and Software at GlobalData, an intelligence and productivity platform, offers his view: “FTTR is the latest step in […]

February 12, 2026

Echelon Studios announces digital release for Dead to Rights

Echelon Studios has announced the digital release of Dead to Rights, China’s official selection for the 2026 Academy Awards® for Best International Features category. The film will be available from February 3rd, across the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Based on true events surrounding the Nanjing Massacre, Dead to Rights has drawn attention for […]

January 27, 2026

China wants 200,000 satellites

China has filed paperwork with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for a truly mega-constellation of 200,000 satellites. Chinese authorities have also called for greater transparency in the satellite sector and closer coordination. According to the ITU, multiple Chinese satellite operators submitted applications for more than 200,000 satellite frequencies during the final week of 2025. This […]

January 13, 2026

Study: Ad market growth concentrated in Big Tech platforms

A study from WARC has found that global advertising spend is now on course to close out 2025 with growth of 8.9 per cent to $1.19 trillion (€1.6tn), an upgrade of 1.5 percentage points (pp) from WARC’s September forecast due to strong results from Big Tech platforms and a muted impact on global trade from […]

December 11, 2025

Report: Plunge in China’s WLAN revenue

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks and data centre industries, a sharp contraction in China spending kept worldwide Wireless LAN (WLAN) growth from hitting double-digits in Q3 2025. “Cisco was late to the Wi-Fi 7 party,” commented Siân Morgan, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group. […]

December 11, 2025

China boosts internet satellite numbers

China launched a group of internet satellites into orbit on December 9th reports China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the State-owned space contractor. The satellites, the 15th group of low-orbit hardware in China’s State-owned internet network, were lifted by a Long March 6A carrier rocket at 6:11 am (Beijing time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch […]

December 10, 2025By Chris Forrester