By Chung Li-hua and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerA new government policy dubbed the “Taiwan Artificial Intelligence （AI） Action Plan 2.0” aims to increase the value of the nation’s AI industry to more than NT$250 billion （US$8.16 billion）, the Executive Yuan’s Office of Science and Technology Policy said yesterday.
Mirror News this month fulfilled its pledges by broadcasting on the multimedia-on-demand (MOD) system and raising its registered capital to NT$2 billion (US$67.74 million), the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday.
The commission will continue to oversee the news channel’s operations based on its business plan and conditional clauses that in January it pledged to follow to secure the broadcasting license, NCC Deputy Chairman and spokesman Wong Po-tsung (翁柏宗) said.
Of the more than 40 conditional clauses, 14 would result in revocation of the broadcasting license were they to be missed. They include failure to broadcast on platforms that can be viewed
EBC News was fined NT$1.2 million (US$41,987) for airing two false reports related to COVID-19 in its prime-time political talk show, the National Communications Commission said yesterday.
A guest on the channel’s Crucial Time (關鍵時刻) show on May 19 last year said that two university professors had contracted the virus when visiting tea houses in Taipei’s Wanhua District (萬華), the commission said.
However, it was informed that the professors had not visited the teahouses, the commission said, adding that the channel was fined NT$400,000 for failing to verify the information before airing it, citing Article 27 of the Satellite Broadcasting Act
Mirror News must file an application to change its business plan in accordance with the Satellite Broadcasting Act (衛星廣播電視法), because it elected new board members last week, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday.
The news channel’s shareholders on Friday elected five new board members: former Chunghwa Telecom chairman Cheng Yu (鄭優), former Kbro general manager Huang Chun-yen (黃俊彥), OneAD founder and chairman Hilo Chen (陳宏宇), attorney Kuo Hui-lan (郭蕙蘭) and Mirror News anchorwoman Liang Fang-chieh (廖芳潔). Deloitte Taiwan accountant Wang Ching-shan (王金山) was elected board supervisor.
The channel said in a statement following the shareholders’ meeting that the comprehensive reshuffling