According to the International Finance News in China, the number of media in China up to 2004 are as follows:
Newspapers: 2000+
Magazines: 9000+
Radio stations: 1000+
TV station: 200
TV channels: 2900
The radio stations in China have over 700million listeners. Although there are so many media in China, the advertising income from these media channels are only RMB 7billion (about US$840million).
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