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Taipei, June 15 (CNA) Chinese Television System Inc. (CTS) was fined NT$1 million (US$33,688) Wednesday for running a series of erroneous news tickers, including several stating China had invaded Taiwan, in April, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC).
Taipei, April 28 (CNA) Retired professor Cheng Tzu-leong (鄭自隆) was named Thursday as the new chairman of Chinese Television System (CTS), which has been under fire for running a series of erroneous news tickers on its cable channel last week.
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
The best print media will survive
By Cheng Tzu-leong 鄭自隆
On Monday, the print version of the Taiwanese edition of the Apple Daily flew off the presses for the last time.
The Chinese-language newspaper, owned by Hong Kong-based Next Digital Ltd, began publishing in Taiwan on May 2, 2003. At the time, Taiwan had just been through the SARS epidemic and the nation was still in a state of shock; today the newspaper has pulled the plug on its print edition just as Taiwan is battling a resurgence of COVID-19.
Born out of one coronavirus outbreak and finished off by another, the demise of the print edition of the Apple Daily is a sad event.