The National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday it is launching an administrative inspection of the Taipei Broadcasting Station (台北電台) for allegedly simultaneously broadcasting two programs in the same time slot on New Year’s Eve.
The incident came to light when Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Li Keng Kuei-fang (厲耿桂芳) played a recorded tape at a press conference on Monday. It showed that while the Taipei City-funded radio station was scheduled to broadcast a special New Year’s Eve program live on the night of Dec. 31, it also aired a prerecorded program in the same time slot. Audiences listened to a mixture of the two soundtracks for about an hour.
When staff found out and tried to call the station at 11:40pm to correct the mistake, nobody answered the phone.
Huang Chin-yi (黃金益), deputy director of the operational management division at the commission, said the NCC had dispatched officials to the radio station yesterday to better understand its operations and talk with its management.
“So far, the radio station does not seem to have infringed any relevant regulations,” Huang said. “However, this has affected its audience. We must give the radio station a chance to explain itself to determine the real cause of the incident.”
Huang added that there was only one person working at the station that night.
According to NCC, the radio station secured a license renewal last year after it passed an evaluation that is conducted every two years. Despite the license renewal, the NCC told the station that its facilities were old and outdated.
NCC spokesperson Chen Jeng-chang (陳正倉) said the radio station is a national resource. As a media regulator, NCC must find out who should be held responsible for the incident.
“We will see if they show any improvement in the next evaluation,” Chen said.
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