Peace TV to broadcast via YouTube

[webfact]

Peace TV to broadcast via YouTube
THE NATION



BANGKOK: -- THE POLITICALLY ORIENTED Peace TV channel has delayed broadcasting news shows on the Internet to next Monday, news anchor and red-shirt leader Weng Tojirakarn said, adding that the channel will branch out into broadcasting other programmes later.

Broadcasts will initially start on YouTube, he said.

"We will try to start with news shows and see the reaction [of the authorities] who will be monitoring the programmes. After that, we will adjust the structure of our programmes and try to expand the scope" from broadcasting normal news to other forms of programme, Weng said.

He added that Peace TV would continue working with four news anchors, and if there are no problems, the channel will bring back other red-shirt leaders.

On April 27, the NBTC cancelled Peace TV's broadcasting licence for allegedly airing content that breached an agreement with the regulator and orders issued by the military's ruling National Council for Peace and Order.

Weng added that the TV station will also post weekly journals via other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

Today four news anchors from Peace TV will go to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to seek a response on the petition they filed with the NBTC last week.

The petition calls for an explanation from the broadcasting regulator on issues deemed as affecting security as decided by the NBTC.

Last Sunday, Weng and the news anchors also submitted an open letter to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap), in which they called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to ensure that the government respects an international treaty on rights and media freedom.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Peace-TV-to-broadcast-via-YouTube-30259388.html


-- The Nation 2015-05-06

[smedly]

what part of "ban" don't you understand

[AleG]

Someone should remind them that Youtube also has policy guidelines, for example against instigating harassment, threats, incitement to violence, etc, etc..., that can result in a channel being suspended.

Edited May 6, 2015 by AleG

[Thaddeus]

I'm sure all the farmers will be glued to their smart phones.

[dru2]

Good to see that the self-appointed representatives of the Isaan farmers aren't all pale-skinned, Sino-Thai, Bangkok Hi-so girls....

[Thaddeus]

Good to see that the self-appointed representatives of the Isaan farmers aren't all pale-skinned, Sino-Thai, Bangkok Hi-so girls....

Dear old Arthur would walk to all of the miners gatherings.

Well, he would park his Jag, and then walk round the corner.

[scorecard]

"Today four news anchors from Peace TV will go to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to seek a response on the petition they filed with the NBTC last week."

Surely the owner / sponsor or the management should be talking to the NBTC, not the 4 news anchors.

Why the numerous photo ops featuring the 4 news anchors? An attempt at diversion away from jatuporn's, natwut's, and weng's faces?

Why the earlier comment that if put off the air it would be unfair because the 4 news anchors and 100 others would lose their jobs. Ethics be damned.

I wouldn't trust this outfit with a one Baht coin.

[Srikcir]

what part of "ban" don't you understand

What part of freedom of speech don't you understand?

You ASSUME tha ban had merit because it involved a PTP affiliated station.

The ban was made based on the lack of any specificity other than the broadcasts might disturb the Junta. The NBTC has refused to detail the reason for the ban.

Even the most aggressive suppression of freedom of speech deserves specific guidelines. Here the NBTC appears to apply the ban merely based on political affiliation and not on CONTENT. By doing so, the NBTC has become politically bias. Note that the Democrats who are also facing a similar ban are making the same complaint against the NBTC that it has not detailed EXACTLY how the Peace TV broadcasts deserve a ban. "We don't like what you're doing" is hardly a sufficient guideline.

For whatever it's worth, the NCPO Interim Charter in Article 4 recognizes "human dignity, rights, liberties and equality of the Thais." An arbitrary-based ban by the NBTC against the Peace TV is a sham and illegal. If Gen. Prayut wants to invoke Article 44 to shutdown broadcast stations, so be it. But the government should otherwise stop pretending that it is using the "customary practices of the democractic government of monarchical of Thailand" (Article 5) to enforce laws.

[scorecard]

<script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script>

what part of "ban" don't you understand

What part of freedom of speech don't you understand?

You ASSUME tha ban had merit because it involved a PTP affiliated station.

The ban was made based on the lack of any specificity other than the broadcasts might disturb the Junta. The NBTC has refused to detail the reason for the ban.

Even the most aggressive suppression of freedom of speech deserves specific guidelines. Here the NBTC appears to apply the ban merely based on political affiliation and not on CONTENT. By doing so, the NBTC has become politically bias. Note that the Democrats who are also facing a similar ban are making the same complaint against the NBTC that it has not detailed EXACTLY how the Peace TV broadcasts deserve a ban. "We don't like what you're doing" is hardly a sufficient guideline.

For whatever it's worth, the NCPO Interim Charter in Article 4 recognizes "human dignity, rights, liberties and equality of the Thais." An arbitrary-based ban by the NBTC against the Peace TV is a sham and illegal. If Gen. Prayut wants to invoke Article 44 to shutdown broadcast stations, so be it. But the government should otherwise stop pretending that it is using the "customary practices of the democractic government of monarchical of Thailand" (Article 5) to enforce laws.

What's your next beat up rant, no doubt full of your usual twists and lack of truth?

[Yunla]

Weng added that the TV station will also post weekly journals via other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter actually does seem perfect for them, they could explain their whole political manifesto in one single tweet.

[Baerboxer]

what part of "ban" don't you understand

What part of freedom of speech don't you understand?

You ASSUME tha ban had merit because it involved a PTP affiliated station.

The ban was made based on the lack of any specificity other than the broadcasts might disturb the Junta. The NBTC has refused to detail the reason for the ban.

Even the most aggressive suppression of freedom of speech deserves specific guidelines. Here the NBTC appears to apply the ban merely based on political affiliation and not on CONTENT. By doing so, the NBTC has become politically bias. Note that the Democrats who are also facing a similar ban are making the same complaint against the NBTC that it has not detailed EXACTLY how the Peace TV broadcasts deserve a ban. "We don't like what you're doing" is hardly a sufficient guideline.

For whatever it's worth, the NCPO Interim Charter in Article 4 recognizes "human dignity, rights, liberties and equality of the Thais." An arbitrary-based ban by the NBTC against the Peace TV is a sham and illegal. If Gen. Prayut wants to invoke Article 44 to shutdown broadcast stations, so be it. But the government should otherwise stop pretending that it is using the "customary practices of the democractic government of monarchical of Thailand" (Article 5) to enforce laws.

Seeing as several red shirt leaders, former PTP MP's and junior cabinet ministers, were videoed inciting extreme violence during the 2010 insurgency, for which some are on bail, it is reasonable to think that maybe they are continuing to push things to the limit as usual.

The NBTC is not answerable to you, or the Shins and does not have to explain themselves to you. Nor are you in a position to determine what is illegal.

Have you ever been to Isaan and heard the absolute propaganda and lies these red TV and radio station spout?

[halloween]

"Today four news anchors from Peace TV will go to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to seek a response on the petition they filed with the NBTC last week."

Surely the owner / sponsor or the management should be talking to the NBTC, not the 4 news anchors.

Why the numerous photo ops featuring the 4 news anchors? An attempt at diversion away from jatuporn's, natwut's, and weng's faces?

Why the earlier comment that if put off the air it would be unfair because the 4 news anchors and 100 others would lose their jobs. Ethics be damned.

I wouldn't trust this outfit with a one Baht coin.

The owner is currently out of the country and unlikely to return in the near future due to completed and pending legal embarrassments, and the dismal failure of his paid lackeys to get his amnesty passed.

[smedly]

"Today four news anchors from Peace TV will go to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to seek a response on the petition they filed with the NBTC last week."

Surely the owner / sponsor or the management should be talking to the NBTC, not the 4 news anchors.

Why the numerous photo ops featuring the 4 news anchors? An attempt at diversion away from jatuporn's, natwut's, and weng's faces?

Why the earlier comment that if put off the air it would be unfair because the 4 news anchors and 100 others would lose their jobs. Ethics be damned.

I wouldn't trust this outfit with a one Baht coin.

The owner is currently out of the country and unlikely to return in the near future due to completed and pending legal embarrassments, and the dismal failure of his paid lackeys to get his amnesty passed.

nail on the head, maybe he should come back and sort his own mess out - oh that's right he can't without going to jail

[Linky]

what part of "ban" don't you understand

What part of freedom of speech don't you understand?

You ASSUME tha ban had merit because it involved a PTP affiliated station.

The ban was made based on the lack of any specificity other than the broadcasts might disturb the Junta. The NBTC has refused to detail the reason for the ban.

Even the most aggressive suppression of freedom of speech deserves specific guidelines. Here the NBTC appears to apply the ban merely based on political affiliation and not on CONTENT. By doing so, the NBTC has become politically bias. Note that the Democrats who are also facing a similar ban are making the same complaint against the NBTC that it has not detailed EXACTLY how the Peace TV broadcasts deserve a ban. "We don't like what you're doing" is hardly a sufficient guideline.

For whatever it's worth, the NCPO Interim Charter in Article 4 recognizes "human dignity, rights, liberties and equality of the Thais." An arbitrary-based ban by the NBTC against the Peace TV is a sham and illegal. If Gen. Prayut wants to invoke Article 44 to shutdown broadcast stations, so be it. But the government should otherwise stop pretending that it is using the "customary practices of the democractic government of monarchical of Thailand" (Article 5) to enforce laws.

Seeing as several red shirt leaders, former PTP MP's and junior cabinet ministers, were videoed inciting extreme violence during the 2010 insurgency, for which some are on bail, it is reasonable to think that maybe they are continuing to push things to the limit as usual.

The NBTC is not answerable to you, or the Shins and does not have to explain themselves to you. Nor are you in a position to determine what is illegal.

Have you ever been to Isaan and heard the absolute propaganda and lies these red TV and radio station spout?

So can you inform us of the reason they where banned?