It’s my third time meeting Lu You this Monday at the gate of Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court. The result of her second trial against Huang Jianxiang, her former colleague at CCTV, a football commentator, was to be announced that day. As the last two meetings with her, she seemed upbeat and spirited, like on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sina'
Lu You v. Huang Jianxiang: A Libel Case
December 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Football, Government, Sports Media
Tags:CCTV·defamation·Fu Minrong·Huang Jianxiang·law·libel·Lu You·Pu Zhiqiang·QQ·Ratomir Dujković·rule of law·Sina·sports journalists·Tencent
Broadcasting Monday Night Football to Chinese Audience
October 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · American Football, Sports Media
To most of Chinese I know, American football is difficult and distant. At Shanghai Scrap, Adam Minter interviews Zhang Nan, Monday Night Football’s play-by-play man in China, who tries his best to engage more Chinese into the sport. Sure, the NFL has a small audience in China (roughly 20,000 viewers watch the weekly simulcast), but [...]
Tags:broadcasting·Michael Stokes·Monday Night Football·NFL·Sina·Zhang Nan
EPL’s back for free in China (Update3)
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Football, Sports Media
So the boycott worked. A few days to the kick-off of this season’s English Premier League, we’ve got some good news for football fans in China. Looks like WinTV, the Guangdong-based pay-sports channel, is looking to sell broadcasting rights to as many local TV stations as possible, as keeping it will neither do no good to [...]
Tags:broadcasting·China Youth Media·English Premier League·media rights·Sina·SMG·Tencent·WinTV
