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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.
NBTC seeks rule to bar monopolies
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 29/07/2014
» The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) plans to issue a new regulation on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) for broadcasting to prevent media cross-ownership.
NCPO: Voice TV could be allowed back
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 04/06/2014
» The digital TV channel owned by the Shinawatra family may be seeing a light at the end of tunnel after the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) said it could be allowed to broadcast again once the general political situation stabilises.
PSI given nod as pay TV operator
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 03/06/2014
» PSI Holdings, Thailand's biggest satellite TV platform provider, has been approved as a pay TV operator by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).
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.
MCOT chief steps down in dispute over equipment
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 16/05/2014
» Anek Permvongseni, president of MCOT Plc, the broadcaster of Channel 9, has stepped down due to the state-run broadcaster's declining performance in the first quarter and political intervention in the procurement of digital TV network equipment.
NBTC okays digital trials in April for network providers
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 25/03/2014
» The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) will run digital-TV broadcast trials from April 1-24 to test the technical aspects of network transmission.
Public-purpose TV moves ahead with April dates
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 17/03/2014
» The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) will open for applications for the first public-purpose digital TV channel from April 21-25.
Channel 5 set to rebrand itself as a public station
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 12/03/2014
» Channel 5, the free TV channel operated by the Royal Thai Army, will rebrand itself as a public TV station for national security within four years.
NBTC to sync digital radio with TV broadcast roll-out
Business, Saengwit Kewaleewongsatorn, Published on 04/03/2014
» The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) will allocate existing analogue TV frequencies to use with digital radio later this year.