{"id":9703,"date":"2014-05-22T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2014-05-22T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:37:02","slug":"thailand-military-suspends-tv-and-radio-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/thailand-military-suspends-tv-and-radio-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand military suspends TV and radio programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9705\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg_.jpg\" alt=\"Original Image by Zuanzuanfuwa via WikiMedia Commons\" width=\"650\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg_.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg_-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg_-100x46.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thailand&#8217;s army chief, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, <a title=\"read via VOA News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/crisis-talks-continue-in-thailand\/1919959.html\" target=\"_blank\">declared a coup today<\/a> (Thursday, May 22), and detained key party leaders while suspending the constitution in &#8220;a bid to restore order&#8221; after nearly six months of\u00a0ant-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>General Prayuth Chan-ocha has also <a title=\"Read this in an ABC report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-05-22\/thailand-coup-as-army-takes-control-of-government\/5471734\" target=\"_blank\">ordered all domestic TV and radio outlets to halt normal broadcasting<\/a> and only include content the military provides until further notice. <a title=\"Bangkok Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/lite\/topstories\/411044\/banned-tv-operators-cry-foul\" target=\"_blank\">Only yesterday<\/a>,\u00a0a group of Thai media bodies accused the\u00a0<em>Peace and Order Maintaining Command<\/em> (POMC) of violating the constitution when the POMC banned 14 satellite TV outlets. Now that the constitution is suspended, I suppose it is no longer an obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious if <em>Radio Thailand<\/em> will be on the air today&#8211;if so, I assume broadcasts will contain military sanctioned content. I would encourage you to tune to <em>Radio Thailand<\/em> and, if possible, even record a broadcast to archive if they are indeed on the air.<\/p>\n<p>The following is <em>Radio Thailand<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0English broadcast schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwave.am\/\" target=\"_blank\">per Shortwave.am<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9390 kHz,\u00a01230-1300 UTC, Target:\u00a0Oceania<\/li>\n<li>9390\u00a0kHz,\u00a01400-1430\u00a0UTC,\u00a0Target:\u00a0Oceania<\/li>\n<li>9390\u00a0kHz,\u00a01900-2000 UTC,\u00a0Target:\u00a0Europe<\/li>\n<li>9390\u00a0kHz,\u00a02030-2045 UTC,\u00a0Target:\u00a0Europe<\/li>\n<li>15590\u00a0kHz,\u00a00000-0030 UTC,\u00a0Target:\u00a0Eastern North America<\/li>\n<li>15590\u00a0kHz,\u00a00030-0100 UTC,\u00a0Target:\u00a0Western North America<\/li>\n<li>15590\u00a0kHz,\u00a00200-0230 UTC,\u00a0Target:\u00a0Eastern North America<\/li>\n<li>17640\u00a0kHz,\u00a00530-0600 UTC,\u00a0Target:\u00a0Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thailand is no stranger to full-blown military coups; this is their<em> twelfth<\/em> since 1932. I&#8217;ll be following this story closely as events unfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand&#8217;s army chief, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, declared a coup today (Thursday, May 22), and detained key party leaders while suspending the constitution in &#8220;a bid to restore order&#8221; after nearly six months of\u00a0ant-government protests. General Prayuth Chan-ocha has also ordered all domestic TV and radio outlets to halt normal broadcasting and only include content the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,81,960,3,43,1167],"tags":[1136,2916,2616,2147,2915,84],"class_list":["post-9703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-free-press","tag-general-prayuth-chan-ocha","tag-press-freedom","tag-radio-thailand","tag-thailand-coup","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2wv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9715,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/radio-thailand-no-mention-of-military-coup\/","url_meta":{"origin":9703,"position":0},"title":"Radio Thailand: no mention of military coup","author":"Thomas","date":"May 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, I was able to catch the first thirteen minutes of\u00a0Radio Thailand's English language service on 9,390 kHz\u00a0shortwave. I was curious if RT would mention the Thailand military coup or at least broadcast a\u00a0sanctioned message from the military authorities. Yet\u00a0I heard no mention of the coup whatsoever. And why\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RadioThailand_Logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RadioThailand_Logo-300x205.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9708,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/bbc-thailand-tv-and-radio-remains-blacked-out-under-military-control\/","url_meta":{"origin":9703,"position":1},"title":"BBC: Thailand TV and radio remains blacked out under military control","author":"Thomas","date":"May 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Andy who shares\u00a0this article from BBC News. Here's a clip: \"The day after the military takeover in Thailand, television and radio remains blacked out and under military control. Instead, viewers and listeners are being fed a diet of traditional music interspersed with orders and announcements from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"1000px-Thailand_(orthographic_projection).svg-001","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg-001-229x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9743,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/thailand-coup-bbc-world-service-increases-shortwave-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":9703,"position":2},"title":"Thailand Coup: BBC World Service increases shortwave broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"May 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Richard Cuff, for forwarding this press release from the BBC World Service Group Communications: \u00a0BBC World Service increases broadcasts to Thailand 26 May 2014. As authorities in Thailand take key national and international channels off air in the country, BBC World Service has increased\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Original Image by Zuanzuanfuwa via WikiMedia Commons","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1000px-Thailand_orthographic_projection.svg_.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48970,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nhk-world-celebrates-80-years-of-radio-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":9703,"position":3},"title":"NHK World celebrates 80 years of radio service","author":"Thomas","date":"May 21, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: NHK Radio Japan via Rich Cuff) Radio service for overseas marks 80 years. A ceremony has been held to mark 80 years since the start of radio service at Japan's only station broadcasting programs overseas on shortwave bands. 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