Sin Trend Video might have difficulties securing approval for its application to establish a national news channel from the National Communications Commission (NCC), after some commissioners questioned the need to set up an additional news channel in Taiwan’s saturated market.
The broadcast authority began reviewing the application from the Taichung-based media firm, which it received in January last year.
Sin Trend’s news channel, which would be called Taiwan Daily Network (台灣生活新聞), has begun broadcasting on YouTube. Securing a broadcasting license from the NCC would allow it to air on cable or Chunghwa Telecom’s multimedia-on-demand system.
Taiwan Daily Network chairwoman Liao Tzu-chen (廖紫岑) and