BBTV Channel 7
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| TV station ( private ) | |
| Program type | Full program |
| reception | Antenna (analog) ( DVB-T ), cable (analog) ( DVB-C ), satellite ( DVB-S ) and IPTV (Internet) |
| Image resolution | ( Entry missing ) |
| Start of transmission | 1958 (Kanal 7) or November 27, 1967 (BBTV) |
| owner | BBTV and Thai Army |
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Kanal 7 ( Thai สถานี โทรทัศน์ สี กองทัพ บก ช่อง 7 , translated: "Color television station of the army channel 7", short ช่อง 7 สี , "color channel 7", English BBTV Channel 7 , short CH7 ) is a terrestrial television station that can be received nationwide in Thailand . The station is owned by the Thai army .
Channel 7 was founded in 1958 by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat due to rivalries between various government agencies. Alongside Kanal 5, it is the second land forces television station. They granted the license to operate the program in 1967 to the private company BBTV Bangkok Broadcasting & Television . The majority of this is owned by the Chinese-born Ratanarak family, who also owned the Bank of Ayudhya and Siam City Cement and are one of the richest families in Thailand. Channel 7 was Thailand's first color television station . The concession to BBTV was extended in 1998 for a further 25 years (until 2023) without a competitor. The fees paid over the years total 4.67 billion baht.
Kanal 7 had an average audience rating of 47% and an advertising market share of 31.9% in the second quarter of 2011. After the introduction of digital television with an increase in the number of free-to-air channels, the audience rating fell to 26.5% in August 2016. The focus of the program is on Lakhon , a format comparable to the soap opera or telenovela. The lakhon produced by Kanal 7 tend to appeal more to the working class and provincial populations. Her style is described as "garishly popular", the plot is often sensational or even unbelievable, the focus is mostly on the "plutocratic" life of fabulously rich families. The acting style is melodramatic, the staging is extremely complex.
Channel 7 has been broadcasting in the digital DVB-T2 standard and in high definition (HD) since 2014 . The analog signal is to be switched off in 2018.
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- ↑ Monwipa Wongrujira: Democratizing Communication. Media Activism and Broadcasting Reform in Thailand. Florida State University, 2008, p. 57.
- ↑ a b Monwipa Wongrujira: Democratizing Communication. Media Activism and Broadcasting Reform in Thailand. Florida State University, 2008, p. 61.
- ^ AB Susanto, Patricia Susanto: The Dragon Network. Inside Stories of the Most Successful Chinese Family Businesses. Wiley, Singapore 2013.
- ↑ Krit Ratanarak's profile in Forbes The World's Billionaires , accessed October 14, 2017.
- ↑ MCOT Analyst Briefing Q2 2011 (PDF; 1.5 MB), August 16, 2011.
- ↑ Watchiranont Thongtep: Total ratings of digital channels tops analog in Aug. In: The Nation (online), October 5, 2016.
- ↑ Brett Farmer: Battling angels and golden orange blossoms. Thai television and / as the popular public sphere. In: Jinna Tay, Graeme Turner: Television Histories in Asia. Routledge, Abingdon (Oxon) / New York 2015, pp. 74–91, on p. 80.