Thai PBS
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| TV station ( public service ) | |
| 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 | January 15, 2008 |
| owner | TPBS (Thai Public Broadcasting Service) |
| List of TV channels | |
The television station Thai Public Broadcasting Service ( Thai ไทย พี บี เอ ส ) sends the sixth nationwide terrestrial receivable full program in Thailand . The range is still limited, however, as the antenna only transmits in the UHF range. The picture quality, however, is better and less interference than the other national TV programs in Thailand. The owner is the state-owned TPBS ( Thai Public Broadcasting Service , Thai องค์การ กระจายเสียง และ แพร่ ภาพ สาธารณะ แห่ง ประเทศไทย ; ส ส ท for short ).
The station emerged from ITV (broadcast started on May 9, 1995). ITV (Independent TV) was the only nationwide full program that was not operated by the government, the army or the state-owned MCOT. It was founded after the mass protests against the military-backed government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon and its bloody crackdown in " Black May " in 1992, as well as public outrage over censorship and biased reporting in the state media. The station was owned by the Prime Minister's Office, which granted iTV's private operating company a thirty-year license for a fee of 230 million baht per year and a share of 6.5% of revenues. ITV was required to broadcast 70% news and 30% entertainment. The program was known for critical reports and documentation. His news was produced by the publisher of the daily newspaper The Nation . In particular, the station was very critical of the entrepreneur and politician Thaksin Shinawatra .
When ITV was in financial trouble in 2000, Thaksins Shin Corporation bought the station shortly before the election campaign that led to his election as prime minister. The cooperation with the Nation Group and the Watchdog Group was ended and with it the negative attitude towards Thaksin. Journalists who refused to share the positive line towards Thaksin were fired. In contrast, ITV's economic performance improved significantly. After the takeover by Thaksin, ITV took legal action against the high license fee and the 70:30 ratio for news programs. An arbitration tribunal granted ITV a lower fee and a 50:50 ratio in 2004. In 2006 Thaksin sold a large part of the shares in his Shin Corp. to Temasek Holdings from Singapore. This sparked violent protests, among other things because control of a Thai television station abroad fell.
After the military coup against Thaksin in September 2006 , the new government of Surayud Chulanont brought an action against the change in license terms made in 2004 in favor of ITV. The Supreme Administrative Court ruled the Prime Minister right and ordered ITV to restore the old distribution of program shares and to pay back fees of 76 billion baht. That was unsustainable for ITV and led to the station's bankruptcy. The government then withdrew the license and instead started the government's own program TITV (broadcast on March 7, 2007), the programming of which it entrusted its public relations department. They then commissioned a task force to work out a possibility study to create a non-commercial, exclusively publicly funded and content-independent program from the former iTV. In January 2008 the Thai Public Broadcasting Service was created by law. It went on air on February 1, 2008. The station was geared towards documentaries and children's programs and is free of advertising. Thai PBS had an average audience rating of 4.9% in the second quarter of 2011.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Glen Lewis: Thai media and the "Thaksin Ork pai" (get out!) Movement. In: Political Regimes and the Media in Asia. Routledge, 2008, pp. 123-123.
- ↑ Monwipa Wongrujira: Democratizing Communication. Media Activism and Broadcasting Reform in Thailand. Florida State University, 2008, p. 61.
- ^ Duncan McCargo , Ukrist Pathmanand: The Thaksinization of Thailand. NIAS Press, Copenhagen 2005, pp. 47-48.
- ^ Peter Leyland: The emergence of administrative justice in Thailand under the 1997 constitution. In: Administrative Law and Governance in Asia: Comparative perspectives. Routledge, 2009, pp. 244-245.
- ↑ MCOT Analyst Briefing Q2 2011 (PDF; 1.5 MB), August 16, 2011.