SINGAPORE, 24 NOVEMBER 2009 - The cable TV working committee of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is working on the licence of satellite TV due to its popularity, the National News Bureau of Thailand (NNT) has reported.
The registered licence of satellite TV will also help protect local cable TV from disturbances, says the report.
According to NNT, the reason why the licence of satellite TV needed to be registered at haste is that local TV service providers had filed complaints as they felt that they were at a disadvantage compared to satellite TV operators which operated several channels and could make low cost productions in one transmission.
Dr Pana Thongmeearkom, head of the cable TV working committee of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said the committee had discussed with the entrepreneurs of television broadcasting and the producers of TV programmes to collect information for asking on a temporary satellite TV licence, the report said.
He also said the process on satellite TV licence had already taken one year to gather opinions on licence fees. They will forward their recommendations to NTC to finalise the issue.
New NTC board selected
Today (24 November 2009), the Senate announced the appointment of Suranan Wongwittayakamchorn as new NTC board member, reported the NNT.Suranan Wongwittayakamchorn will replace Athorn Chandravimol, who has resigned from the post.
Suranan won with a landslide vote of 82 against the other nominated candidate General Chuchart Suksa-nguan, an expert at NTC, who received only 42 votes after a heated voting session.
