Digital TV licence owners of the Association of Digital TV Operators are contrite about bidding so high at the 2014 auction, and have been begging for relief and taxpayer-funded subsidies for a year. (File photo)The national media reform committee is backing a recent government move to help digital TV operators handle their multi-billion-baht debts in its reform proposals. Mr Takorn earlier admitted ad budgets were limited to about 100 million baht while there are too many digital TV channels. The appropriate number of digital TV channels should be reduced to between 15 and 16 in Thailand, he said. There is only an idea to reform the state-owned TV channel, National Broadcasting Services of Thailand (NBT), suggested by the now-defunct National Reform Steering Assembly, he insisted.

Source: Bangkok Post January 03, 2018 21:45 UTC