The National Communications Commission (NCC) should revoke the license of the Chinese Television System (CTS) for running news tickers that mistakenly said China had invaded and natural disasters had struck on morning news programs, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers said yesterday.
A group of KMT lawmakers surrounded NCC Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) before a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee, demanding that he “step down,” as he allowed CTS, which aired the erroneous tickers on Wednesday last week, to obtain the channel 52 slot.
Channel 52 was previously occupied by CTi News, but the commission in 2020 rejected an application it submitted
Democracy groups and other advocates staged a protest in Taipei yesterday, calling for an investigation into power outages and an erroneous broadcast of invasion news tickers to determine if the incidents were the result of staff working on behalf of Beijing.
The event at outside the Legislative Yuan was led by the Taiwan Citizen Front and Taiwan Youth Association for Democracy, along with attorney Lai Chung-chiang, convenor of the Economic Democracy Union.
The groups called for probes by the National Security Bureau (NSB) and the Investigation Bureau.
Lo Yi (羅宜) of the Taiwan Citizen Front said that two electricity outages were of the
The National Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday launched an investigation into Chinese Television System (CTS, 華視) for allegedly causing public panic by mistakenly running news tickers about a Chinese invasion and disaster.
The news alerts were created by the New Taipei City Fire Department for disaster drill purposes.
CTS ran the news tickers during its news program at 7am, with messages that read: “New Taipei City hit by Chinese missiles, sea vessels and facilities in Port of Taipei damaged,” “Banciao Railway Station under attack” and “New Taipei City’s Taishan District (泰山) struck by magnitude 7 earthquake.”
As of 2pm, the NCC had
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe National Communications Commission （NCC） yesterday launched an investigation into Chinese Television System （CTS, 華視） for allegedly causing public panic by mistakenly running news tickers about a Chinese invasion and disaster.