Peace TV's broadcasting licence suspended for 30 days

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The broadcasting licence of Peace TV, a satellite-based station run by red-shirt leaders, was suspended on Wednesday for 30 days.

The decision was made by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).

 

NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tantasith said the suspension was ordered because two programmes aired by Peace TV on July 4 and July 9, had content “deemed intent to overthrow the constitutional monarchy regime and affect national security, public order and good public morals.”

 

Peace TV’s failure to suspend the programmes voluntarily violated Article 37 of the Broadcasting and Television Businesses Act, Takorn said. It also broke conditions earlier agreed with the NBTC, he added.

 

The NBTC order will be enforced as soon as it is handed to the TV station, Takorn said.

 

The regulating agency is empowered to suspend Peace TV’s licence but has no authority to revoke it, as the TV station has been temporarily protected by an Administrative Court injunction order issued last year.

 

In April 2015, the NBTC ordered revocation of Peace TV’s operating licence, causing the station to seek court protection. 

 

The injunction was granted after the court found that NBTC did not allow Peace TV to explain itself sufficiently prior to the order that would affect its operation.

 

Earlier that month, Peace TV’s licence was also suspended for seven days by NBTC, due to broadcasts of content deemed unlawful.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30323393

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-10

One less source of soap drama for the populace.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Earlier that month, Peace TV’s licence was also suspended for seven days by NBTC, due to broadcasts of content deemed unlawful.

Did they report a correct weather forecast before the deluge?

Peace TV suspension nothing to do with politics, says Prayut

By The Nation

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has denied ordering that Peace TV, a satellite-based station run by red-shirt leaders, be pulled off the air for 30 days.
 

The suspension of the red-shirt channel has been seen as an attempt to choke off support for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra ahead of the August 25 announcement of the Supreme Court’s verdict in her case. 

 

Yingluck is accused of negligence for allegedly failing to prevent corruption in her government’s rice price-pledging scheme.

 

Prayut said on Thursday that if the suspension order against Peace TV had anything to do with the August 25 verdict reading, then “all media” should have been ordered closed. 

 

Then “the reporters would all lose their jobs and there would be no one asking me questions,” he said. 

 

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) ordered the station’s suspension on Wednesday, saying two programmes it aired on July 4 and July 9 featured content “deemed intended to overthrow the constitutional-monarchy regime and affect national security, public order and good public morals”. 

 

Prayut said the channel had violated NBTC regulations and the suspension had nothing to do with politics. 

 

“Do I have to instruct them on everything? They [the NBTC] did their job. If they don’t, they will be negligent in their duty,” he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30323404

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-10

            I'm wondering just how many other news outlets deemed to be 'pro red' will be shut down before Yingluck's verdict is delivered.

Great! Can we now suspend the man-child's Friday evening show for 30 days? 

I was under the impression he did not like being questioned by reporters. Yet in this report he states differently. As for not being a political directive I beg to differ. He is getting a trifle worried over the Yingluck case.

When will dumb totalitarian regimes come to understand that opposition is for their better sake, because the role of opposition to point out what the government is not doing it the right way.

Poor PM Prayut. Such a sad insecure man who is to be pitied.  

 

"Prayut said on Thursday that if the suspension order against Peace TV had anything to do with the August 25 verdict reading, then “all media” should have been ordered closed."

 How stupid does he think people are? If you have a group of angry unarmed people in front of you, you only need to shoot one to get their attention. "Anybody else want some of this?" 

When will the simple-minded armchair politicians posting here understand that because of cultural differences and other circumstances not all countries are suitable for a (so called) democracy. In most western countries it is nothing but a pipe-dream where democracy is a figurehead for cleverly disguised monocracy; Although their mass communication industry will propagate otherwise - there is a word for it.

44 minutes ago, SouthernDelight said:

When will the simple-minded armchair politicians posting here understand that because of cultural differences and other circumstances not all countries are suitable for a (so called) democracy. In most western countries it is nothing but a pipe-dream where democracy is a figurehead for cleverly disguised monocracy; Although their mass communication industry will propagate otherwise - there is a word for it.

And you have the audacity to call others here "simple-minded armchair politicians"?  So if someone happens to disagree with you're simplistic view of the situation, they are "simple-minded? 

4 minutes ago, stephen tracy said:

And you have the audacity to call others here "simple-minded armchair politicians"?  So if someone happens to disagree with you're simplistic view of the situation, they are "simple-minded? 

"And you have the audacity to call others here "simple-minded armchair politicians"?"

A conservative remark to a comment stated here: "...dumb totalitarian regimes..."

"So if someone happens to disagree with you're simplistic view of the situation, they are "simple-minded?"

I might formulate a suitable response to the subject matter at issue.