Yonhap News TV

Yonhap News TV (Korean: 연합뉴스TV), stylised as YONHAP NEWS TV, is a South Korean pay television network and broadcasting company, owned by the Yonhap News Agency-led consortium. It began broadcasting on 1 December 2011.[1] TV Yonhap News TV started broadcasting with four new South Korean nationwide generalist cable TV networks. Thoese are JoongAng Ilbo's JTBC, Dong-A Ilbo's Channel A, Chosun Ilbo's TV Chosun, and Maeil Kyungje's MBN in 2011.[2][3][4][5][6] The four new networks supplement existing conventional free-to-air TV networks like KBS, MBC, SBS, and other smaller channels launched following deregulation in 1990.

Yonhap News TV
Native name
Hangul(주)TV
Revised Romanization(Ju) Yonhap Broadcasting System Co., Ltd.
McCune–Reischauer(Chu) Yonhap Pangsong
TypePrivate
FoundedDecember 1, 2011 (2011-12-01) in Seoul, South Korea
HeadquartersSejongno, Jung District,
Seoul
,
South Korea
Key people
  • Kim Min-bae (CEO)
  • Bang Jung-oh (CEO)
  • Bang Sang-hoon (Chairman)
Revenue153,172,893,532 won (2018)
-1,036,465,441 won (2018)
3,276,761,531 won (2018)
Total assets270,716,352,671 won (2018)
Total equity310,000,000,000 won (2018)
Owner
Members289 (2018)
Subsidiaries
  • Chosun Media Rep
  • Chosun Image Vision
  • HIGROUND Co., Ltd.
Websitewww.yonhapnewstv.co.kr

History

  • 22 July 2009 - Amendment of Media law passed the South Korean national assembly to deregulate the media market of South Korea.
  • 31 December 2010 - JTBC, TV Chosun, MBN, and Channel A elected as a General Cable Television Channel Broadcasters.
  • 1 December 2011 – Yonhap News Television begins broadcasting.

See also

References

  1. Shin Hae-in (30 November 2011). "New cable channels go on air". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  2. Kim Tong-hyung (12 December 2011). "What else can new channels do to boost ratings?". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  3. Noh Hyun-gi (4 January 2012). "Four new TV channels face uncertain futures". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  4. Yoon Ja-young (20 January 2012). "Low ratings weigh on new channels". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  5. Kim Tong-hyung (6 June 2012). "New channels remain 'anonymous'". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  6. Bae Ji-sook (29 November 2012). "'New TV channels are niche, not gold mine'". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
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