Digital television in Thailand
Digital television was launched for public in Thailand in 2014. The system for Digital television in Thailand is DVB-T2.
The Broadcast Commission (BC) under the National Broadcast & Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) announced in the last quarter of 2013 that it plans to give DTTV license through open auction within December 2013. The prospectus has been priced at 1 million baht and many of the incumbent content owners providers as well as studios bought the prospectus. If all goes well, the auction will result in 4 categories of licenses: High Definition TV, Standard Definition TV, Children TV and Digital News TV. The number of provider who will survive the auction is still unknown.
Prior to the auction announcement, BC quietly granted a bottleneck "network" license to existing government incumbent which means that all the new DTTV providers have to send DTTV signal to these governmental MUX providers at the price fixed by the providers themselves. In response to claim of uncertainty and in order to lessen financial risk to potential bidders might face after the granting of license, BC came out to state that it encouraged the "potential" bidders to "negotiate" MUX price/charge before going into the bidding room.
List of channels on multiplexes
Public 24 commercial
| Name |
Variety HD |
Variety SD |
News |
Kids |
| GMM |
One HD |
GMM Channel |
No |
No |
| Bangkok Media |
PPTV HD |
No |
No |
No |
| BBTV CH7 |
CH7 HD |
No |
No |
No |
| Thairath |
Thairath TV HD |
No |
No |
No |
| Amarin |
Amarin TV HD |
No |
No |
No |
| RS |
No |
CH8 |
No |
No |
| Workpoint |
No |
Workpoint TV |
No |
No |
| Nation |
No |
NOW26 |
NationTV |
No |
| True |
No |
true4U |
TNN 24 |
No |
| MONO |
No |
Mono29 |
No |
No |
| Voice TV |
No |
No |
Voice TV |
No |
| Daily News |
No |
No |
new)tv |
No |
| Bright TV |
No |
No |
Bright TV |
No |
| Spring News |
No |
No |
Spring News |
No |
| MCOT |
Channel 9 MCOT HD |
No |
No |
MCOT Family |
| BEC Multimedia |
3 HD |
3 SD |
No |
3 Family |
|
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Multiplexes (MUX)
Digital television network operators in Thailand consists of Royal Thai Army (2 Multiplexes), MCOT, the Public Relation Department (PRD) and Thai Public Broadcasting Service (ThaiPBS)
| PRD | TV5 MUX2 | MCOT | TPBS | TV5 MUX5 |
| Public Television |
TV5 HD (1) |
NBT HD (2) |
Thai PBS HD (3) |
TPTV (10) |
| Kids & Family |
3 Family (13) |
MCOT Kids (14) |
| News |
TNN24 (16) |
new)tv (18) |
Spring News (19) |
Bright TV (20) |
Voice TV (21) |
Nation TV (22) |
| SD |
Workpoint (23) |
True4U (24) |
GMM 25 (25) |
NOW (26) |
CH8 (27) |
3 SD (28) |
MONO29 (29) |
| HD |
MCOT HD (30) |
ONE HD (31) |
Thairath TV (32) |
3 HD (33) |
Amarin TV HD (34) |
CH7 HD (35) |
PPTV HD (36) |
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See also
References
