How To Broadcast Thai News
Particularly by Southeast Asian standards, ข่าวไทย has a robust media industry. Long-standing extensive control by the government and military of Thailand, particularly over FM and television outlets.
The Thai media, both local and international, has seen growing limitations and censorship, which is subtle sometimes and, overt sometimes, throughout the regimes of Thaksin Shinawatra and the following military-run administration after the coups in 2006 and 2014.
The press of Thailand was classified as not liberal in Freedom House’s 2017 Freedom of the Press assessment. Thailand moved up three points from 2020 to be rated 137th in freedom of the press out of 180 countries in 2021 by Reporters Without Borders.
Attacks on press freedom have persisted in 2020, adding to censorship done by themselves by the mainstream media about the protests in Thailand in 2020–2021 that called for the change of the monarchy of Thai.
Four professional media groups in Thailand released a joint statement in 2015 on World Press Freedom Day urging the government operated by the military to lift the unjust press restrictions and stop interfering in Thailand’s NBTC (National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission).
Radio
In recent years, low-power radio stations belonging to communities have flourished, giving listeners another option to the stations under government control. However, several community-based stations of radio have lately been shut down by the government on the basis that they used louder transmitters than allowed and interfered with frequencies that pre-existed.
The stations of radio which shut down, however, are allegedly the targets of government skeptics who claim that this is because they broadcast ข่าวไทย that was critical to the Prime Minister’s policies.
Several local radio stations were closed in Nakhon Ratchasima Province and other places after receiving repeated warnings from official organizations after it was established that the signals from there were compromising with ATC also overlapping those of other radio stations.
In Thailand, there are reportedly 4,000 “illegal” community radio stations. According to some detractors, there are twice as many “non-licensed” local radio stations than the government estimates. Community radio programs were more focused on addressing political concerns that had arisen following the 2006 coup d’état when Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted from office.
All transmitters, channels, and operators must now comply with the new law’s requirement that they have a license issued from the broadcast regulator, who will be chosen by the ministers.
Juridical Council determined in July 2008 that all rules, judgments, and administrative directives made under the revoked Act of Radio and Television ceased to exist with the passage of the 2008 Broadcasting Act since they were replaced by the new Broadcasting Act.
Juridical Council also determined that TPBS is exempt from the act of broadcasting interim authority while NBC is still in the process of being established. The Juridical Council’s decision has made streaming in Thailand open and unrestricted.
All television channels are either controlled by the government, or the army, or are the subject of concession agreements that de facto give the government ownership of censorship authority.
In 2009 June, the NTC (National Telecommunications Commission) put up a suggestion of the draft “Provisional CR License” and invited public feedback as a temporary regulator and licensee for cable television and community radio.
The rule governing the temporary License went into force on July 2009 25, and the first license may be granted 30 days afterward. The temporary license is valid for 250 plus days, but it may be extended for another equivalent amount of time or till the time the new regulatory body is established.
New legislation that will permanently alter Thailand’s television and radio industry was enacted by the parliament in December 2010. The upcoming NBTC will be established to regulate Thailand’s broadcasting and telecommunications industries.
The primary responsibility of the body is to restructure the spectrum of AV and allot spectrum to various categories of users following the 2008 laws.
In the year 2011, the NBTC is anticipated to take the position of the NTC. The implications of establishing a separate independent regulator of telecom and media are huge. The regulator’s first objective is to privatize the AV sector’s airwaves.
The NBTC’s most difficult objective is to take control of radio and ข่าวไทย away from the government and reallocate and reassign spectrum for commercial, social, and private usage. Radio and television licenses fall into one of three primary types under the Broadcasting Act of 2008: commercial, non-commercial/public, or communal. The three kinds of commercial service licenses are (1) national license, (2) license for a region and (3) local license.
In other words, the two-name list of the first few people was finished and sent to the ministers for being selected as of July 2011, marking the halfway point of the selection process. The Senate will be informed once the two-name lists are joined and will ultimately choose NBTC from the list of two names.
The two-name lists were sent to the senate in August 2011. A committee was formed especially by the Senate to propose the candidates despite accusations of corruption and kickbacks. The NBTC would prefer having 11 members, among which five will serve as the telecom commission and the other five as the broadcast commission. Both commissions are off-limits to the NBTC chairman.
The appointment of the royal order was approved by the monarch in October 2011, creating the regulator. Six of the eleven people on the committee are within the police or the military, while two might belong to civil society groups. Former bureaucrats make up three of the commissioners.
Adopting a minimum of 3 plans as master plans is one of the NBTC’s main responsibilities. These plans are the Master Plans for Telecommunications, Broadcasting, and Spectrum. The 3 primary plans were all released simultaneously by NBTC to be implemented in 2012 within October.
For the new 24 DTTV, NBTC held the largest media auction hold within Thai history in December 2013. DTTV’s first broadcast began in the mid-quarter of the year 2014. Following a military takeover 2014 in May, the Act of NBTC was changed to mandate returns from the revenues from the DTTV sale to the general fund.