The National Communications Commission (NCC) could adopt the criteria used for the approval of Mirror News (鏡電視) to evaluate the performance of cable news channels, NCC Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) said yesterday.
Mirror Media was last month granted approval to establish the news channel after it was reviewed by the commission for two years.
However, NCC commissioners Lin Li-yun (林麗雲) and Wang Wei-ching (王維菁) wrote a letter of dissent regarding the ruling, saying that the commission should not review applications for the establishment of news channels as if they are judging an essay competition.
The commission should review its policies governing the
Lawmakers at the legislature’s Transportation Committee on Thursday passed a resolution to require the National Communications Commission (NCC) to present a draft act to regulate over-the-top (OTT) television service operators before the end of June.
The resolution, proposed by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Ming-wen (陳明文) and seconded by seven other legislators, was passed as the committee reviewed the commission’s budget for this fiscal year. It is to take effect after the resolution is passed by all lawmakers at the plenary session.
Surveys conducted by the NCC showed that 41.5 percent of broadcast media viewers aged 16 or older said that
The National Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday told a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee that it opposed draft amendments on block programming, saying that passing the changes would give cable system operators unlimited power to arrange channel lineups.
The committee reviewed amendments to Articles 29, 34 and 38 of the Cable Radio and Television Act (有線電視廣播法), which were proposed by Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Ou-po (陳歐珀), Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chen Hsueh-shen (陳雪生) and more than a dozen other legislators.
The amendment to Article 29 would require cable system operators to have five to 10 blocks of channels and to
The government has limited means when asking telecoms to lower 5G fees, despite customer complaints, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday.
The nation’s 5G services came under scrutiny at a meeting at the legislature’s Transportation Committee last week, as the technology’s penetration rate remained at about 12 percent since telecoms launched services in June last year.
Lawmakers said that one of the main reasons that people did not upgrade their 4G services to the faster standards was the high rates, urging the NCC to meet with telecom representatives to negotiate their prices within two weeks.
NCC Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) and other
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