cable TV operators TBC Taiwan Broadband Communications and Dafeng cable TV recently wrote the "Communication Communication Committee" (NCC), requiring the replacement of 55 TVBS and change it to "mirror TV". If the pass is made, it will affect 1 million cable TV users. Liu Caiwei, a candidate for the Zhongshan Datong constituency of the Kuomintang and former TVBS News Channel, mentioned on Facebook today that TVBS News Channel is 55, and it is unchanged.
Liu Caiwei also mentioned that in the past few years, with the strong intervention of the ruling party, the NCC has not only forced the closure of news stations with a very different position from the ruling party, but also attempted to formulate a "Digital Content Intermediary Law." Not only should we create a chilling effect of in mainstream media , but we should also curb freedom of speech online and reverse democracy.
Liu also mentioned that the NCC is now going to intervene in the mediation of channel dealers’ frequency transfer applications, which is inevitably worrying. The script has been written long ago, and the NCC is only completing the order delivered by the ruling party step by step.
She believes that moving the trusted news channel out of the news station concentration area and adjusting it to the back section of the channel is a bad means for the ruling party to weaken the influence of the news channel. Channel dealers use frequency shift as a means of negotiation of authorization funds, which has even impacted the rights and interests of viewers, which is disappointing.
Liu Caiwei said that the channel dealer who hopes to apply should seriously consider the news viewing rights of viewers. The NCC should show a neutral media supervision profession, rather than continue to become a political mafia in the operation of the ruling party, allowing TVBS to continue to stay 55 units.
island cable TV system, from channel 49 to channel 55 is the centralized area of the news station. In 2020, the Democratic Progressive Party closed the Zhongtian News of Channel 52 and then replaced it with the official media of the Taiwan authorities "Huasi News"; this time, the TVBS News of Channel 55 was removed and replaced with the pro-green "Mirror TV News"; at this point, Taiwan's news channel has been fully greened. (Xue Yang/Edited)