Channel 52 to the World News Channel Global Digital Media: “Business in Business” Considerations | Politics | Newtalk

The National Communications Commission (NCC) convened a committee yesterday (18). The 7 members decided to reject the license change of Zhongtian News, which means that at the end of their license period (11/12), there will be 52 TV channels on 12/12. It will no longer be Zhongtian. The channel agent “Global Digital Media Co., Ltd.” immediately sent a letter to the 12 contracted cable television system operators suggesting that they provide an alternative channel to World News. “Please arrange for your system station to transmit on frequency 52.” However, the company said that this is based on the consideration of “business in business”, because they represent the channels of TVBS, Zhongtian and Huanyu, of course, it should be considered for customers, but in the end it depends on whether the NCC has license or not, and respect for the system station. The right of classification.

Global Digital Media Co., Ltd. is one of Taiwan’s top three system stations, the affiliate company of Zhongjia Group, and 12 cable TV system operators have signed contracts with it. At the end of September this year, the number of clients in Taiwan is almost 1.1 million, with a market share of 22.44%. Considerable influence.

Global digital media noted that sending letters to cable TV system operators is “just a suggestion” and depends on whether the system providers in Taiwan will pay for it and whether they are licensed by NCC. Since they are also channel agents for Universe News, they do it to increase customers. Universe News’s viewership rate has moved from over 100 to 85 channels before. This time the Zhongtian renewal was rejected. Of course, Universe will be the priority consideration.

As for NCC Chairman Chen Yaoxiang, at yesterday’s press conference, publicly appealing to the system operators to give the Gongguang Group a chance. Global digital media said that taking China TV news and information channel, one of the Gongguang Group, as an example, they would like to authorize, necessary or not. The need to pay for the shelves is a condition for the two parties to cooperate. From a “business, business” perspective, it is not an overnight task, not to mention that the signing of the “news station” is more complicated. The contenders are rumored to include “Mirror TV.” The industry believes that it is not easy to obtain a satellite broadcast license from scratch. It takes time and time, and I am afraid it will not meet the time limit of the Zhongtian news station license.

As for if there is no temporary replacement channel, will it be the “black screen” problem 52? Global digital media also explained that it was something that only happened in the age of analog television. It is explained by a “character card”, but is now fully digitized. Just adjust your cable box settings and skip 51 channels. 53 channels are displayed without the “black screen” problem before.

However, in the end, global digital media still emphasized respect for the programming rights of the cable television system station, and must obtain permission from the NCC (unless it is urgently removed from the shelves and simplified the procedure to adopt the method “for reference”), in order to determine the location of Channel 52..

The channel agent “Global Digital Media Co., Ltd.” immediately sent a letter to the 12 contracted cable television system operators suggesting that they provide an alternative channel to World News. “Please arrange for your system station to transmit on frequency 52.”

However, the company said that this is based on the consideration of “business in business”, because they represent the channels of TVBS, Zhongtian and Huanyu, of course, it should be considered for customers, but in the end it still depends on whether the NCC is licensed or not, and respect for the system channels. The right of classification.