Seven Internet TV licensees and OTT set-top boxes

The “Internet TV” era is rising. The entertainment phenomenon of watching and listening to program content using a TV as a receiving terminal is a development goal jointly pursued by users and manufacturers. The quality and health of the program are highly valued by radio and television and better. The regulation and arrangement of the Internet TV, OTT set-top box industry and Internet operators, seven Internet TV licenses have become the core of the problem.


Seven Internet TV licensees

According to China’s current regulations, terminal manufacturers and Internet operators do not have the qualifications to legally provide TV program content. Operators only provide qualifications for providing services and provide broadband. Terminal manufacturers have only production and sales qualifications. Therefore, TV companies must provide program content. And exercise the right of broadcast control, so as to ensure that the content can be controlled from the source. In
Other words, the terminal manufacturers must cooperate with the broadcasting and television enterprises that hold Internet TV licenses in order to produce and sell Internet TV. The following will introduce the current seven Internet TV licensees.

The seven Internet TV licensees are: TV in the future, BesTV, WCDMA, Octagon, Mango TV, CIBN and Galaxy TV. Any manufacturer must cooperate with one of these seven companies to launch Internet TV and set-top box products in China.

Future TV

Future TV



Future TV (iCNTV) is a joint venture between China Network Television (CNTV), Tencent, and China Digital Library. China Internet TV is a subsidiary of CCTV. As a result, TV will have the exclusive right to broadcast TV broadcasts for the world's top events such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup. However, due to its main energy is not in this area, resulting in obsolete platform content, the quality of the programs that can be watched is not high, which seriously affects the user experience. Make Xiaomi and Huawei glory have given up the cooperation with the future TV, and turned to the embrace of Galaxy TV.

BesTV

BesTV

BesTV is a new media A-share listed company under SMG. It is also a domestic partner of Microsoft Xbox One game console. And BesTV announced last year that it was merging with Oriental Pearl, which is also a subsidiary of SMG, so that BesTV has become the domestic partner of Sony PS4.

SMG is the provincial-level radio and television media and integrated cultural industry group with the largest industry scale and largest industrial scale in China. It was formed on March 31, 2014 by the original Shangguang, Shanghai Radio and Television, and Shanghai Oriental Media Group Co., Ltd. It owns 13 sets of broadcasting frequencies, 15 TV channels such as Dragon TV, 8 newspapers, etc., popular websites, and news websites, etc. It is a big player in the domestic culture and media industry.

In terms of exclusive content, BesTV has the Internet television rights of the NBA and the Premier League. The use of BesTV licenses is mainly for its own TV box and Xbox One (yes, you read it correctly).

Number of Hua

Number of Hua

WASU is a large-scale state-owned culture media industry group established by Zhejiang Broadcasting, Hangzhou Wenguang, Ningbo Broadcasting, etc. It is the largest and only cross-regional cable network operator in China with nearly 30 million cable TVs. Home users. The adoption of the Wah Number license is mainly the home TV box and Ali's Lynx Box.

Southern Media

Southern Media

Southern Media (SMC) is an internet TV business jointly invested by Southern Media Group and Superior Pengle. Southern Media Group consists of Guangdong People's Broadcasting Station, Guangdong TV Station, Southern TV Station, Guangdong Radio and Television Technology Center, and Guangdong Cable Radio & TV Network Co., Ltd. The company and the province's 19 prefecture-level cities and 76 county-level radio and television stations. This licensee is not well-known, and their use of licenses is relatively small. Only music broadcast TV boxes are available.

Mango TV


Mango TV

As the new media of Hunan Broadcasting and Television, Mango TV (iMGO.TV) exclusively owns the Internet copyright of Hunan Satellite TV Ace Variety Show, and is the only Internet TV broadcast platform. At the same time, Mango TV has also cooperated with many content providers such as Huayi Brothers, Tiancheng Media, TVB, and Phoenix. There are TV set-top boxes such as Baidu video sticks that use Mango TV TV licenses.

CIBN


CIBN

CIBN is China International Radio (CRI) new media and is operated exclusively by China Radio International, a country under the control of China Radio International. Founded on December 3, 1941, China Radio International originated from the Japanese language radio broadcast by Yan'an Xinhua Broadcasting Station on December 3, 1941. It currently uses 65 languages ​​to spread around the world. It is the most widely used international language communication agency in the world. . There are some TV box products currently using the CIBN license.

Galaxy TV

Galaxy TV

Galaxy Television (GITV) may be the largest Internet TV license after Mango TV and Huada, and it is currently the hottest Internet TV licensee. Galaxy TV is an Internet TV operating company co-initiated and established by Yangguang, Jiangsu Radio and TV General Station (Jiangsu Satellite TV), Iqiyi, and Dr. Peng (Changsha). Current Galaxy TV licenses include their own boxes, millet TVs, LeTV, Huawei Glory Boxes, Skyworth TVs and boxes, and barley boxes.

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