Illegal community radio stations will not be allowed to resume broadcast: Winthai

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Illegal community radio stations will not be allowed to resume broadcast: Winthai
May 25, 2014

Community radio stations that have not been permitted to operate legally will not be allowed to resume their broadcast, Army deputy spokesman Col Winthai Suwaree said Sunday.

He said the stations must get license from the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission before they will be allowed by the National Council for Peace and Order to resume broadcast.

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[Rural Surin]

This article and related subject matter is all quite mute, as a greater percentage of suppose local community radio stations have been challenged and forced to discontinue by the Thai authorities.....

We remember, several years ago when the upstart idea of independent radio programming came about - it took off everywhere.....there were dozens scattered across the country, promoting local and general alternative content.

As to be expected, the paranoid Thai establishment found all this to their disdain and closed many operating systems under the cloak of any such excuse.

All directives taking place under those successive "democratic" governments.

There is truly no difference whether Thailand is under the false pretense of a free and open democratic or the in-your-face [and occupying] military regime - it still remains one and the same.

There are those out there whom might insist [dreamy state] that a difference.
Not much, there isn't.