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Media of Macau


Media in Macau are available to the public in the forms of: television and radio, newspapers, magazines and the Internet. They serve the local community by providing necessary information and entertainment. Macau's media market is rather small. The local media face strong competition from Hong Kong.

Macau reportedly 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.


There are nine Chinese daily newspapers, three Portuguese dailies and three English daily newspapers in Macau. There are also six Chinese weekly newspapers and one Portuguese weekly newspaper.

All local newspapers that have been published for at least five years are entitled to subsidies from the government.

The first newspaper that was published in Macau was Abelha da China (Chinese: ), which was only published for one year.

Revista Macau is a quarterly magazine with cultural contents and run by the government. Macau Business is one of Macau's oldest English language publications, launched in May 2004, published monthly by a private company (De Ficção - Multimedia Projects) that also owns Business Intelligence Magazine a business magazine in Chinese, and Business Daily newspaper. Inside Asian Gaming is a monthly gaming magazine, in English. Destination Macau is an English-language magazine promoting the tourism and hospitality sector published by Ignite Media Group. World Gaming is an English and Chinese language magazine promoting the gaming and tourism sector.

TDM was established in 1984. They have two television broadcast channels and one radio channel - Radio Macau. The two television channels include a Chinese-language and a Portuguese-language channel.


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