Peace TV’s operating license revoked by the Broadcasting Board

[Lite Beer]

Peace TV’s operating license revoked by the Broadcasting Board

BANGKOK: -- The Broadcasting Board decided on Monday to revoke the operating license of Peace TV allegedly for repeated violations of the announcement of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).

Colonel Nathee Sakulrat, chairman of the Broadcasting Board, said that the commission had warned Peace TV which was owned by Peace Television Company on several occasions since last October that the contents of some programmes were deemed to be provocative, inciting disobedience and causing public misunderstanding.

On March 23, the commission decided to serve the television a written warning to Peace TV to comply with the law and to follow the agreement. Yet, the television continued to defy the agreement prompting the commission to suspend its operating license effective as of April 10 until April 17, said Colonel Nathee.

Peace TV resumed operations on April 18 but, again, it broadcasted contents found to be violating the agreement in a way which were deemed provocative and inciting public disobedience.

Reacting to the order revoking Peace TVs licence, Mr Natthawut Saikua, co-leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, said he suspected the order came from someone above the Broadcasting Board.

He said he didn’t why the powers-that-be were so afraid with opposing views. However, he indicated that the company might appeal the case to the Administrative Court to seek a stay of execution so that PEACE TV could continue broadcasting.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/peace-tvs-operating-license-revoked-by-the-broadcasting

-- Thai PBS 2015-04-27

[Costas2008]

"Reacting to the order revoking Peace TVs licence, Mr Natthawut Saikua, co-leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, said he suspected the order came from someone above the Broadcasting Board."

What a clever man

Bet you, UDD, has got plenty others like him.

[Fat Haggis]

If you keep poking a rabid dog, eventually it's going to bite.

The cynic in me says this is the plan, make it bite, then cry out to the world " look what he did" and then make the excuse to have it locked away and destroyed, which in this case maybe isn't such a bad thing.

The flip side is it will then be the excuse to stay in power longer citing civil unrest, martial law back on the menu, hundreds of detentions and of course a postponing of the election in 12 months time as the country isn't stable enough. ?

[FarangKino]

If Peace TV is considered to be provocative - what about the Internet? Or some of the international channels on True? Something missing here. Or is it just brain cells?

[phoenixdoglover]

Some of our longest standing democracies were founded on "inciting disobedience".

[tonbridgebrit]

And the Nation newspaper, why are they still allowed to operate ? They should show consistency, and close down the Nation newspaper as well.

[ratcatcher]

And the Nation newspaper, why are they still allowed to operate ? They should show consistency, and close down the Nation newspaper as well.

I would miss Steph's cartoons, and he must really get under a certain party's skin.

[tbthailand]

what? no examples of content which has been deemed:

provocative, inciting disobedience and causing public misunderstanding.

[tbthailand]

from another source, a bit more precise, .... but not much

Takorn Tantasit, the NBTC Secretary-General, said on 12 April that contents of the programmes Mong Klai Khid Rob Dan (Having Worldly Visions), Doen Na To Pai (Keep Walking Ahead), and Khaojai Trong Kan Na (We Share the Same Understanding) on Peace TV, and of Awakened, News Room, and Clear on 24 TV caused public confusion and divisiveness and incited conflict.

[philw]

Can't comment.

Self censorship and all that, but carry on all those who think Thailand is headed for a free and enlightened future.

[thesetat2013]

Some of our longest standing democracies were founded on "inciting disobedience".

You say OUR as if you are a Thai person here.

The REDS and UDD have (since I have known and read about them) always played misleading games with the peoples thinking and have always incited peoples angers and caused problems for the country. These groups are led by someone with interest to keep Thailand in turmoil so maybe they can return. If (in this case) they are undeserving of losing their license then perhaps they can get it back in the future. My bet is that they deliberately and knowingly exceeded their broadcasting agenda as permitted just to get sympathy from the locals and cry POOR US.

[halloween]

Some of our longest standing democracies were founded on "inciting disobedience".

Some of the worst dictatorships were founded on propaganda and hate speech.

[halloween]

from another source, a bit more precise, .... but not much

Takorn Tantasit, the NBTC Secretary-General, said on 12 April that contents of the programmes Mong Klai Khid Rob Dan (Having Worldly Visions), Doen Na To Pai (Keep Walking Ahead), and Khaojai Trong Kan Na (We Share the Same Understanding) on Peace TV, and of Awakened, News Room, and Clear on 24 TV caused public confusion and divisiveness and incited conflict.

My deepest sympathy. What ever will you now do to fill your day?

[wooloomooloo]

Can't comment.

Self censorship and all that, but carry on all those who think Thailand is headed for a free and enlightened future.

Thailand, as it is, is at its most serene. I don't know many Thais that think otherwise.

[webfact]

Redshirt TV Channel Ordered Off the Air

By Khaosod English

Core Redshirt Nattawut Saikua on Peace TV in 28 Jan 2015.

BANGKOK A Redshirt-run television station has been permanently canceled after Thai authorities decided its news coverage was politically divisive and could "incite unrest."

The decision was announced by Natee Sukonrat, deputy chairperson of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC), on his official Twitter account today.

The station, called Peace TV, was previously suspended for a week in April after the NBTC said its news coverage violated the ruling junta's Order No. 97, which forbids media from fomenting violence or causing "divisions in the Kingdom."

The station, which is operated by the largely anti-coup Redshirt movement, often featured core Redshirt leaders like Jatuporn Prompan and Nattawut Saikua.

NBTC member Natee said today that the channel violated its agreement not to air politically divisive content.

"The NBTC has carefully deliberated on the action and concluded that it is a repeated offense," Natee wrote on Twitter.

However, another member of the NBTC also took to Twitter to voice her opposition to the board's decision to revoke Peace TV's license. Supinya Klangnarong said she was the lone member to vote against the measure.

In series of Twitter posts, Supinya explained that the NBTC can choose from a variety of punishments, such as suspending the offending talk shows. Yet, the NBTC "skipped" all other possible measures and shut down Peace TV for good, an punishment she called "disproportionate."

"I agree that, by principle, the NBTC should increase its effort to regulate TV channels to prevent the problem of reproducing hatred and incitement, but it should be proportionate," Supinya wrote. "We should not just jump from not using power to using power in the highest way."

Source: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1430133659&typecate=06&section=

-- Khaosod English 2015-04-28

[NongKhaiKid]

You have to love all the names chosen such as Peace TV run by redshirts, the Thai Love Thai Party and Thai Researchers for Community Happiness.

Who was it that said ' what's in a name ' ?

[MaiChai]

They did the right thing. I don't want to see Thais divided and these people spend all their time trying to do it.

[chooka]

Allowing only one side of politics a voice and denying people a choice is what is causing a division. What did Prayuth say, "The People must choose, not Politicians" He floods the airways with his speeches and propoganda rubbish and it forced onto the people but if the other side speaks out they are shut down. Where are the choices that the leader speaks of apart from him and him.

Edited April 27, 2015 by chooka

[halloween]

Allowing only one side of politics a voice and denying people a choice is what is causing a division. What did Prayuth say, "The People must choose, not Politicians" He floods the airways with his speeches and propoganda rubbish and it forced onto the people but if the other side speaks out they are shut down. Where are the choices that the leader speaks of apart from him and him.

Nobody is forced to watch Prayuth's talks, every set has an OFF button. I haven't looked at Peace TV, but if the content is anything like these mercenary hate-mongers were delivering in 2010, then licence cancellation is pretty tame. I'm still asking why they aren't in court yet to face terrorism charges.

BTW remember how the Allied democracies treated Lord Haw-Haw.

[JAG]

Can't comment.

Self censorship and all that, but carry on all those who think Thailand is headed for a free and enlightened future.

Well we're told they are happy.

[Thaddeus]

You have to love all the names chosen such as Peace TV run by redshirts, the Thai Love Thai Party and Thai Researchers for Community Happiness.

Who was it that said ' what's in a name ' ?

It highlights the lie, which has never made any sense to me at all.

You know that when a country has Democratic in its name, it is anything but, same thing when the word Peace is used.

The Peoples Peaceful Democratic Republic of Thailand?

Edited April 28, 2015 by Thaddeus

[lovetotravel]

If Peace TV is considered to be provocative - what about the Internet? Or some of the international channels on True? Something missing here. Or is it just brain cells?

TV, in almost every nation around the world, is highly regulated. The internet is obviously not.

These guys have been reporting on the draft constitution, and in a negative light. It's one sided and biased reporting. Other media outlets have toned down, this station has not.

The rules are different now and they have to abide by them. They obviously didn't. The red shirts have some great concepts, unfortunately their leaders are after something else all together.

Censorship of the media is not good, but it's reality now.

[smedly]

And the Nation newspaper, why are they still allowed to operate ? They should show consistency, and close down the Nation newspaper as well.

why is that exactly

Nation is a news channel - as already mentioned above several times - the "think of a name that will make us look nice channel" or so called "peace tv" was the propaganda mouth of an organisation that spewed out their vomit hate speeches and threats from what amounts to nothing less than a terrorist organisation, in any country in the west they would have been banned and arrested a long time ago.

and Supinya Klangnarong should be fired for opening her unofficial mouth, she voted and was outnumbered, her outburst and criticism is nothing less than a politically biased opinion voiced as a member of a National Agency which had already made its decision using the correct procedure, if she disagrees with it then resign and go work in a salon

Edited April 28, 2015 by smedly

[ExPratt]

They don't like the truth or criticism of their manufactured truth.

Closing down TV stations because they challenge the Governments version of events is not a good sign for the future and the people of this country

Edited April 28, 2015 by ExPratt

[lovetotravel]

Allowing only one side of politics a voice and denying people a choice is what is causing a division. What did Prayuth say, "The People must choose, not Politicians" He floods the airways with his speeches and propoganda rubbish and it forced onto the people but if the other side speaks out they are shut down. Where are the choices that the leader speaks of apart from him and him.

You are right. And that's exactly what got us here in the first place. One political faction denying the other side a voice. Along with very divisive messages broadcast by the red media. It was extremely one sided. And at times, not true.

Remember when the previous government allowed Taksin, a convicted criminal on the run, to be broadcast nationally?

If you go back more than a decade, the ruling government did the same thing. Controlled the media. Tit for tat???

[waitforusalso]

How many here have the language ability to understand what is being said on these channels. I spent years honing my listening comprehension skills listening to Thai parliament. I then spent equal amounts of time listening to red, yellow & government TV. I can confidently say that they all distort the truth & have their own agenda. Problem here is that only 1 is being dealt with. This is simply a continuation of the one-sided justice being dealt out to red activists, PTP members, Bonanza...

As Daniel Russel said. “When an elected leader is deposed, impeached by the authorities that implemented the coup, and then targeted with criminal charges while basic democratic processes and institutions are interrupted, the international community is left with the impression that these steps could be politically driven.” Japan Times

[rametindallas]

You have to love all the names chosen such as Peace TV run by redshirts, the Thai Love Thai Party and Thai Researchers for Community Happiness.

Who was it that said ' what's in a name ' ?

You make an excellent point.

Here's and example of one of the peaceful folks who have programs on Peace TV:

Redshirt Ordered to Burn Bangkok (Nattawut Saikua) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbUVCopKec

The name of the UDD when they wouldn't know democracy if it bit them on the ass.

[sweatalot]

Pedace TV?

Do they mean the kind of peace they demonstrated during their peaceful upheaval in 2010

when they tried to kick away a democratic government

to bring back a criminal to power while inviting their peaceful thugs to burn down Bangkok?

[ExPratt]

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Pedace TV?

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Do they mean the kind of peace they demonstrated during their peaceful upheaval in 2010

when they tried to kick away a democratic government

to bring back a criminal to power while inviting their peaceful thugs to burn down Bangkok?

Was the Democratic party not a Democratically elected Government

[aripengu]

Yeah better stick with Doctor Prayuth's teletubbies, invoke some fairy tales from the 1950's and think everything will go back to where it was in the golden days. Don't think for a second society has changed, noooo!

Thailand will be divided and see conflict as long as there is no attempt to start a serious dialogue, without taboos, examining the underlying conditions that have led to the present situation.

But too much saving face, so they prefer to fight, instead of admitting their own mistakes.

They all say they love Thailand, but what do they love exactly? The telephone poles?