State-funded English-language streaming service TaiwanPlus is to start broadcasting on terrestrial television and through Chunghwa Telecom’s multimedia-on-demand service on Oct. 10 after its broadcast application was yesterday approved by the National Communications Commission (NCC).
The NCC assigned TaiwanPlus to use the frequency block between 542 megahertz (MHz) and 548MHz designated for use by the Public Television Service’s (PTS) Channel 26.
NCC Department of Broadcasting and Content Affairs Director Huang Wen-che (黃文哲) said the PTS is negotiating with cable service operators about airing TaiwanPlus on cable.
The Ministry of Culture-funded streaming service was run by the Central News Agency before the PTS in
ADS REMAINED ONLINE: A Taipei city councilor misrepresented the NCC’s authoritiy when she accused it of enabling the schemes, the agency saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The National Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday said it had communicated with Meta Platforms about a rising number of scam messages on Facebook.
The commission made the remarks after Taipei City Councilor Angela Ying (應曉薇) on Tuesday accused the NCC of allowing Meta to spread fraudulent job advertisements created by trafficking rings seeking to lure Taiwanese jobseekers to Cambodia, where they would face abusive working conditions.
Ying said the ads remained online even though police have notified Meta about them.
The NCC has the authority to ask Facebook to take them down, but it apparently chose to do nothing, making it a coconspirator
The National Communications Commission (NCC) is to meet with the Public Television Service (PTS) today to address issues with its information security system, after the network on Tuesday said that a contractor might have deleted nearly 80,000 news clips from its digital archive.
The error affected about 424,000 news clips produced between 2016 and last year, the network said, adding that about 340,000 clips were recovered by Friday last week, but about 80,000 were yet to be recovered.
PTS said that it is seeking restitution from the contractor.
NCC Vice Chairman and spokesman Wong Po-tsung (翁柏宗) said the network is categorized as key