Wang Wei Ching News Today

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

The National Communications Commission (NCC) is considering lawsuits against three Chinese-language news firms — the China Times, Taiwan People’s News and Storm Media — over their accusations about commission officials, who they said were acting unethically when reviewing a broadcasting license application from Mirror News, NCC Deputy Chairman and spokesman Wong Po-tsung (翁柏宗) said. The motion to sue the three media outlets was proposed during a weekly commissioners’ meeting on May...

Mirror News’ ability to raise its registered capital and start broadcasting on cable systems by the middle of May would be the focus of the National Communications Commission’s (NCC) review of the channel’s proposed management change, NCC Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) told lawmakers at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday. The channel on Jan. 19 obtained a satellite broadcasting license after a two-year review by the commission. However, the commissio...

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 t...

Mirror Media’s two-year drive to secure a broadcasting license and a coveted spot in the cable news block ended last month, but critics say its arduous path revealed issues in the National Communications Commission’s (NCC) review process. Unlike other networks in the channel 49 to channel 58 cable news block, Mirror News would not air political talk shows during prime-time viewing hours, its management told the NCC. Instead, it said it would use the coveted time slots to broadcast self-produ...