News1 (Thai TV channel)

Beginning at the end of the year 2003 when Col. Ruamnakhon Tubtimthongchai's BTV RNT done a television license with NBT Channel 11/1 which doing television news programs with income from advertising. Broadcast through Satellite and Cable, UBC is exploiting a loophole in the law to make a new television channel. using the original license and circumvents the original requirement that Channel 11 cannot have ads.

Col. Ruamnakhon and Channel 11 executives persuaded Sondhi Limthongkul to be hired to produce programs for Channel 11/1 under the name 11News1 as satellite television. and broadcast on UBC Channel 8, but later on Channel 11 News1 was removed from UBC In September 2004, due to internal problems of UBC complained and criticized about hidden advertising

When the signal cannot be transmitted through the signal of UBC and only broadcasting via satellite, Sondhi Limthongkul has changed the format to satellite television. Aiming at targeting Thai people abroad in Asia, Europe and the United States and changed its name to Asia Satellite TV or ASTV, with the main channel being the selling point, which is the News1 channel, which is from 11News1 is the same as before. News presentation of News1 channel via ASTV tends to focus mainly on political, social and economic news, especially in politics.

This is due to liquidity problems, according to other businesses in the Manager Group which bears debts of more than 6,000 million baht and has accumulated losses for many years, ASTV is currently raising funds from both Thai and foreign retail investors. By selling ASTV shares at a price of 1,000 baht per share, which has already sold tens of thousands of shares

In 2008, ASTV broadcast live broadcasts of the People's Alliance for Democracy rally for 24 hours on News1 channel, including channels under ASTV.

All ASTV business, assets, liabilities, obligations, employees, frequency spectrum, copyright from CAT and TV station News1 of Pol. Col. Ruamnakorn were officially transferred to ASTV News1 channel in 2005.

Later on October 17, 2011 at 5:30 PM, the TV station ASTV had to be turned off. Since there is no rental fee for the satellite in the amount of 9 million baht, but still broadcasting via the Internet and the manager's website is still open for operation. Which is currently able to watch ASTV as usual on all channels.[1]

Until on May 20, 2014, Martial Law was declared throughout the kingdom and orders for satellite television stations temporarily suspended broadcasting, one of them is ASTV. After that, when the coup took place two days later, The junta has announced satellite television stations as announced when martial law was declared. Continuously suspended broadcasting until it is opened to those television station operators Came to apply for a license with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to continue broadcasting With the condition that news is not reported in a manner that incites and creates divisions. and to change the name of the channel, so the station changed its name back to News1 as when it first aired. Previously, its news programs such as Rob Wan Than Hedkarn, News Hour and a brand new program Kui Mun Than Khao started to broadcast live through YouTube channel of ASTV Manager by broadcasting via satellite for the first time on August 29, 2014 at 6:00 AM.

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