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Media inMacau are available to the public in the forms of:television andradio,newspapers,magazines and theInternet. They serve the local community by providing necessary information and entertainment. Macau's media market is rather small. The local media face strong competition fromHong Kong.
Macau reportedly[by whom?] has the highest "media density" in the world – nine Chinese-language dailies, three Portuguese-language dailies, three English-language dailies and half a dozen Chinese-language weeklies and one Portuguese-language weekly. About three dozen newspapers from Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and the Philippines are shipped to Macau every early morning.[citation needed]
There are nine Chinese daily newspapers, three Portuguese dailies and two English daily newspapers in Macau. There are also six Chinese weekly newspapers and two Portuguese weekly newspapers.[citation needed]
All local newspapers that have been published for at least five years[citation needed] are entitled to subsidies from the government.[1]
The firstnewspaper published in Macau wasA Abelha da China (Chinese:蜜蜂華報), which was only published for one year from 1822 to 1823.[2]
Revista Macau is a quarterly magazine with cultural contents and run by the government.Macau Business is Macau's oldest English language publication, launched in May 2004, published monthly by a private company (De Ficção – Multimedia Projects) that also ownsBusiness Intelligence Magazine a business magazine in Chinese, andEssential Macau a bilingual (Chinese/English) luxury magazine, "Macau News Agency", the first independent news agency available online and "MB.tv", and online video news platform;Inside Asian Gaming is a monthly gaming magazine, in English.World Gaming is an English and Chinese language magazine promoting the gaming and tourism sector.[citation needed]
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TDM (Macau) – Teledifusão de Macau, S. A. , provides public broadcasting service in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China. By running five digital terrestrial TV channels, one satellite TV channel, two radio channels, TDM serves the audiences a wide range of contents in Macau's two official languages, Chinese and Portuguese.[citation needed]
Premium channels include:
Thegovernment of Macau established theGovernment Information Bureau to regulate mediabroadcasting and provides support organizations related to this aspect. They are directly responsible to thechief executive of Macau. Freedom of the press is guaranteed under theBasic Law and Press Law of Macau.[citation needed]
The death ofLai Minhua, director general of the Macao Customs Service, and its subsequent reporting has been used as a case study on media use in Macau and in particular how mainstream media was reluctant to report on her death.[4]
There are five journalists' organizations in Macau.[citation needed]
TheUniversity of Macau offer degree courses inmedia studies.[citation needed]
TheUniversity of Saint Joseph offers a Communication and Media program that covers a wide range of media disciplines.[citation needed]
There are several majorinternet communities in Macau such asMacaustreet,CyberCTM,Qoos andMacauplus.[citation needed]
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