{"id":9708,"date":"2014-05-23T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2014-05-23T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T12:22:16","slug":"bbc-thailand-tv-and-radio-remains-blacked-out-under-military-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/bbc-thailand-tv-and-radio-remains-blacked-out-under-military-control\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Thailand TV and radio remains blacked out under military control"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1000px-Thailand_(orthographic_projection).svg-001\"<\/a>Many thanks to Andy who shares\u00a0this article from BBC News<\/a>. Here’s a clip:<\/p>\n

“The day after the military takeover in Thailand, television and radio remains blacked out and under military control.<\/p>\n

Instead, viewers and listeners are being fed a diet of traditional music interspersed with orders and announcements from the country’s new military rulers.<\/p>\n

Each of the announcements – around 20 so far on the first day of military rule – is read out several times over both television and radio.<\/p>\n

Other forms of communication, such as print media, the internet, landline and mobile phones have not been affected so far, although all media have been requested to refrain from criticism of the military authorities. [Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reports from shortwave radio listeners<\/a>\u00a0are similar: many heard announcements in Thai along with patriotic music on Radio Thailand<\/em>. I attempted to listen the the RT<\/em> broadcast targeting eastern North America at 00:00 UTC on 15,590 kHz, but the signal was simply too weak. I could only hear a faint woman’s voice in the static.<\/p>\n

If you are able to hear Radio Thailand<\/em> where you live, consider recording a broadcast for the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>\u00a0Click here to view for a comprehensive\u00a0Radio Thailand<\/em>\u00a0schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 country’s new military rulers. Each […]<\/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":[56,81,960,3,1167],"tags":[1136,2916,2616,2147,2915,84],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","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-2wA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9743,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/thailand-coup-bbc-world-service-increases-shortwave-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":9708,"position":0},"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. 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