The National Communications Commission has come to the decision that PTS and other networks can continue to broadcast, in spite of the NCC not currently having a quorum to make decisions on whether to renew broadcast licenses...
The KMT has sought to use similar tactics for Taiwan’s NCC, as it has aimed to do with the Constitutional Court. That is, the KMT has tried to freeze the NCC by mandating that the NCC cannot function without a minimum quorum of members then blocking any appointments that the Lai administration seeks to make to the NCC...
A proposal by the KMT to allow the government, political parties, and the military to indirectly invest in up to 10% of broadcast media proves an unusual proposal. This proves particularly ironic at a time when the KMT has frequently attacked successive DPP presidential administrations over the claim that the DPP clamps down on media through the regulatory body of the National Communications Commission...
Bluebird Movement demonstrations have continued to take place outside of the legislature. Even if demonstrations are not as large as in May and June, in July, this has occurred on several occasions...
The KMT and TPP likely plan to use their newly acquired legislative powers going forward to go after political opponents, with an investigative committee set up to investigate the approval of Mirror TV for broadcast. In particular, the pan-Blue camp has long accused the National Communications Commission of exercising undue influence in allowing Mirror TV to obtain a broadcast license. Mirror TV is the first television network approved for broadcast in a decade and it is generally seen as more pan-Green in its political leanings...
The KMT and TPP have dug their heels into criticizing the Tsai administration’s appointments for the National Communications Commission, Taiwan’s media regulatory body...
A controversy involving illegal investments by SET News in March is likely to be leveraged on by the pan-Blue camp to attack the DPP. In particular, SET News has come under fire for violating promises to the National Communications Commission and investing in Homeplus Digital. The exchange took place in 2018, with SET TV co-founder Chang Rong-hua investing in shareholders of Homeplus Digital...
Mirror Media's efforts to establish a television network have faced continual issues in the past months. Mirror Media currently hopes to establish a television network called Mirror News...
The National Communications Commission overruled efforts by CtiTV earlier this week to change the broadcast license of one of its news networks to be allowed to broadcast political and news programs on the Cti Variety channel...
