By Nop Meechukhun

 

Bangkok – The Royal Thai Army today, March 31st, had released an apology statement to the public for TV Channel 5’s “broadcasting problems” while presenting news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, March 28th.

 

The signal disruption occurred when Channel 5, owned by the Royal Thai Army, was reporting about the war and political tension between Russia and Ukraine on the afternoon of Monday.

 

This also resulted in the withdrawal of the TOP News team, who arranged and anchored the news for the channel, by the end of this month.

 

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30+years in Thailand and I've never seen anyone watching ch5. I've only caught sight of it when flicking through the channels when looking to see if a particular sport event was being broadcast by someone.

Why the quote marks around “broadcasting problems”? Is this suggesting that something nefarious was going on?

 

Ch5 - Thai Army Propaganda branch.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The signal disruption occurred when Channel 5, owned by the Royal Thai Army, was reporting about the war and political tension between Russia and Ukraine on the afternoon of Monday.

Must have been a freak weather phenomena?

Pretty telling that in our Constitutional democracy the military has its own propaganda channel. Can't think of another country which has one. Can you?

Thought they were censoring the Russian vodka commercials.

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe they said something negative about Russia and got hacked?

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Must have been a freak weather phenomena?

... when the brakes failed.

Disruption whilst reporting on the Ukraine conflict and then the news team was withdrawn?

Sounds more like the disruption was deliberate because the news team were reporting something they shouldn't have then the news team was taken out of circulation.

18 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Must have been a freak weather phenomena?

Brake failure.

11 hours ago, scorecard said:

... when the brakes failed.

My first thought as well ...

How dare they broadcast news against a military run country. Said a junta somewhere.

On 4/1/2022 at 3:15 AM, bobandyson said:

30+years in Thailand and I've never seen anyone watching ch5. I've only caught sight of it when flicking through the channels when looking to see if a particular sport event was being broadcast by someone.

31 years now, I mostly agree. The only ones I've seen watching ch5 are military personnel and families / relatives and some farmers. But there are 2 noticable exceptions: Ch5 was IMO good (the best?) during both the Tsunami and the flooding.  

Shouldn't the apologies be directed towards the ideals that traditional military power controls much of the establishment media? 

 

Are we missing something or what?