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The National Communications Commission (NCC) should reduce regulations for cable channels and streamline license renewal applications, media experts told a hearing at the Legislative Yuan’s Transportation Committee on Wednesday.
The committee held the hearing after the commission’s criteria of issuing or renewing broadcast licenses came under scrutiny in the wake of controversy related to several management reshuffles at Mirror TV.
The new television news channel has changed its chairman four times since obtaining its broadcast license on Jan. 19. The channel’s board on Tuesday elected former Chunghwa Telecom chairman Cheng Yu (鄭優) as its new chairman.
The management changes were reportedly a result
MOTC mulls harsher traffic penalties
‘DETERRENT NEEDED’: Incidents in which people drove on highway exit ramps in the wrong direction to evade traffic checkpoints led to severe accidents, the ministry said
By Cheng Wei-chi and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) yesterday said it would introduce a draft bill to raise fines for traffic violations, including reckless driving and double parking.
The ministry said that its draft amendments to the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act (道路交通管理處罰條例), as well as several amendments to the act introduced by lawmakers, would be discussed at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Transportation Committee on Thursday.