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Saudi Arabia
Al Arabiya (العربية) is a state-owned international Arabic-language television news channel launched on March 3, 2003, in Saudi Arabia, with initial operations based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Founded by the brother-in-law of Saudi King Fahd as a direct response to Al Jazeera's critical reporting on Saudi Arabia throughout the 1990s, the broadcaster is owned through the Middle East Broadcasting Center, also known as the MBC Group. While MBC Group has identified itself as “the largest and leading private multimedia company in the Middle East North Africa region,” i…
Denmark
Founded in 1878 by Egmont Harald Petersen, Egmont is a Nordic media group that began as a printing business in Copenhagen. It operates more than 50 different businesses spanning television, film, publishing, gaming, and digital platforms. In 2012, Egmont acquired full ownership of TV 2 Direkte, having co-founded the broadcaster in 1991. …
Luxembourg
The European News Exchange (ENEX) is an association of commercial television broadcasters established on December 14, 1993, operating as a news-sharing platform where members pool their news content. Beyond content sharing, ENEX also offers technical coordination, satellite distribution services, and media consulting. Initially a technical service for sharing news footage, the organization has evolved into a news provider. In 2022, ENEX had 55 members operating more than 75 channels globally, maintaining partnerships with organizations in Latin America and the Middle East. The organization has also expanded into Asia, …
United States
Paramount Skydance Corporation is a major American entertainment conglomerate formed through the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media in July 2024, completed in August 2025. The company, headquartered in New York City, operates across film, television, and streaming platforms, including Paramount Pictures, CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Paramount+. Tencent Holdings (腾讯控股腾讯控股有限公司), the Chinese tech giant,
Taiwan
TVBS is a Taiwanese cable television operator established in September 1993. Originally founded as a joint venture between Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited (電視廣播有限公司) and Taiwan's Era Group (年代集團), it became fully Taiwan-owned in March 2023 when consumer electronics manufacturer HTC Corporation acquired full ownership from its remaining stakeholders. The network currently operates five channels, including TVBS News, TVBS Entertainment, and the main TVBS channel…
UK
Human Native.ai is a London-based data licensing platform founded in April 2024 by James Smith and Jack Galilee that connects AI developers with data rights holders, including publishers, record labels, and news organizations. Human Native.ai provides AI developers access to licensed content spanning text, video, audio, music, and code in multiple languages, while ensuring rights holders receive compensation for their…
Taiwan
HTC Corporation is a Taoyuan-based company that specializes in consumer electronics. It was founded in 1997 and initially focused on manufacturing laptop computers as an original design manufacturer and provider. It later shifted its focus to smartphones and gained popularity for its HTC One series of mobile devices.…
UK
Purple Bridge Media is a UK-based media training and consulting company founded in November 2008 by Mark Egan, a former BBC journalist. The company provides journalism training, video production, and AI-focused media skills development, and has worked with organizations including the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the European Broadcasting Union. Purple Bridge Media also provides consulting services in video strategy and social media content creation.…
Saudi Arabia
The Middle East Broadcasting Center, also known as MBC Group, is a state-controlled media company based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, serving the Middle East and North Africa region. While the company identifies itself as "the largest and leading private multimedia company in the Middle East North Africa region," it is 54 percent owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), a sovereign…
United States
Warner Bros. Discovery is an American media conglomerate formed on April 8, 2022, through the merger of AT&T's WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc. The company operates the original Warner Bros. studios — founded April 4, 1923, by four brothers from the Warner family (Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack) — along with HBO, CNN, the Discovery Channel, and streaming services HBO Max and Discovery+. Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, the company's Singapore-based subsidiary, has engaged in numerous co-productions with Chinese state media since at leas…
China
SMG International (上海文广國際傳播中心) is an international communication center established on October 23, 2023, by the Shanghai Media Group (上海廣播電視台/上海文廣集團), the state-owned media conglomerate operating under the oversight of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The center's mission is to position Shanghai as "the vanguard in shaping Chinese-style modernized urban civilization and international communication." The center is apparently meant to function as the primary …
Sweden
On April 10, 2025, the Swedish website NewsVoice announced the signing of a news-sharing agreement with China Daily (中國日報) that allowed NewsVoice to translate and publish articles from the Chinese government-run outlet on its website. According to a letter on the deal published by China Daily and bearing the byline of NewsVoice founder and editor-in-chief Torbjörn Sassersson, the partnership provides "insight into China's thinking, philosophy, and political perspective." Sassersson added that the partnership would enable his website to "b…
Uganda
The Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau (北京市廣播電視局), under the local city leadership of the CCP, and Uganda's Vision Group jointly hosted the "Love Beijing Night" cultural exchange event in Kampala on June 27, 2025. Also launched at the event was a new program for the distribution of Chinese television dramas called "2025 'LOVE Beijing' Audiovisual Arts International Communication Initiative Africa" (2025年'LOVE北京'視聽文藝國際傳播行動·非洲). Under the terms of the project, Vision Group will broadcast a series of Chinese television dramas, i…
Uganda
Scooper News is a news and entertainment mobile app launched in 2019 by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Transsion Holdings (深圳傳音控股股份有限公司). The platform aggregates trending news, videos, and entertainment content tailored for users in Africa, featuring personalized news feeds from all around the world. Scooper integrates Chinese state media content, with China Daily (中國日報) having a
Uganda
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) is a regulatory body for telecommunications, broadcasting, and communications infrastructure established under the Uganda Communications Act No. 1 of 1997 and the Electronic Media Act of 1996. The commission oversees telecommunications, data communications, broadcasting, postal services, radio communications, and infrastructure services across Uganda, while also licensing cinemas and video libraries. As a government-owned statutory body, the UCC has ordered internet shutdowns and social media blocks…
China
The People's Government of Beijing Municipality (北京市人民政府) is the administrative arm of China's capital city, subordinate to the Communist Party — with the mayor answering to the municipal party secretary. It comprises a mayor, vice mayors, a General Office, and more than 20 bureaus handling public security, judicial affairs, and civil, economic, social, and cultural matters. The government was founded on January 1, 1949, restructured as the
Uganda
A wholly state-owned entity under the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) is the country’s national state broadcaster, tracing its origins to the Uganda Broadcasting Service first established in 1954 under British colonial rule. The modern corporation was established under the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation Act of 2005, under which the operations of Uganda Television and Radio Uganda were merged. UBC
China
The Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau, or BMRTB (北京市廣播電視局), is the bureau-level regulatory agency directly under the Beijing Municipal People's Government, originally established in September 1979. In November 2018, the bureau was rebuilt based on the television management responsibilities of the former Beijing Municipal Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television Administration, reflecting China's broader media regulatory reforms approved through the State Council's 2018 institutional reorganization plan. The bureau's primary responsibilitie…
China, Mongolia
On April 10, 2018, during a visit to China by Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh, the Montsame News Agency (蒙古國通訊社) and the Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社) renewed cooperation in a deal signed by Montsame's deputy director and Xinhua's vice president in Beijing. The original partnership between the two began in 1958, when the agencies signed their first news exchange agreement in China’s capital. Since then, both agencies have maintained correspondents in Ulaanbaatar and Beijing and have continued developing their cooperation, state media reported without details. The agencies plan to collaborate in several areas: exchanging news…
Sweden
On June 2, 2025, the Chinese Ambassador to Sweden Cui Aimin (崔爱民) was interviewed by the Swedish online media outlet NewsVoice to commemorate the 75th anniversary of China-Sweden diplomatic relations. In the interview, the ambassador promoted bilateral cooperation in green technology and trade, defended China's response to US tariffs, and encouraged Sweden to join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and BRICS cooperation mechanisms. He also said that "embracing China is embracing opportunities" and characterized both China and the EU as "victims" of US tariffs. Echoing China’s official position that his country …
