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Grammy launches TV channel
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 26/09/2014
» SET-listed entertainment giant GMM Grammy Plc is spending 1 billion baht on GMM Channel, a standard-definition digital TV channel, hoping it will be ranked in the top five channels within three years.
New headquarters usherin next era for Channel 5
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 06/09/2014
» The Royal Thai Army, operator of Channel 5, has set becoming a broadcasting industry hub with a focus on national security as its top priority.
Cheaper packages pitched to EPL fans
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 30/07/2014
» Pay TV operator CTH has joined with PSI Holdings, the country's largest satellite network provider, to cut English Premier League (EPL) package prices and attract the mass viewer market in a bid to have 1.2 million subscribers during the football season starting next month.
TrueVisions brushes off challenges
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 25/07/2014
» Thailand’s largest pay TV operator, TrueVisions, will continue to beef up its content and add more high-definition (HD) channels despite facing big challenges from the pay TV operators CTH and GMM Grammy, which announced a merger this week.
CTH, Grammy tie knot
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 24/07/2014
» Two big pay TV operators, CTH and GMM Grammy, will join forces in the hopes of expanding their pay TV subscriptions to 2.5 million this year from 800,000 as well as help CTH to break even on its English Premier League (EPL) licensing fee.
Post TV splits with Thai TV
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 03/06/2014
» Post TV, the broadcasting arm of Post Publishing Plc (POST), publisher of the Bangkok Post, Post Today and M2F newspapers, has ended its content-providing relationship with Thai TV Co, operator of the THV news channel, saying its news policy did not match the channel's mass positioning.
MCOT stuck in the twilight zone
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 19/05/2014
» A twilight zone. That could be a perfect way to describe MCOT Plc, the 60-year-old state-owned broadcasting enterprise that is often fraught with uncertainties and the intervention of politicians wishing to reap benefits from a slow-moving and inert organisation that refuses to change the way it operates.
Coupon ‘won’t distort pricing’
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 19/04/2014
» Satellite and pay-TV set-top boxes are likely to be included in the digital-TV subsidy coupon scheme by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).
MCOT taps income from new services
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 02/04/2014
» MCOT Plc, the state-run broadcaster of Modernine TV or Channel 9, is focusing on generating additional revenue from non-broadcast activities, particularly selling set-top boxes, network rental services and event organising.
Aviation tycoon joins media
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 26/03/2014
» Aviation tycoon Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth aims to synergise his airline and hospital businesses with PPTV, a new digital TV channel, to make it one of most-watched digital channels in the next three years.