The National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday it will soon release a report on the shortcomings of last month’s television coverage of the Beijing Olympics. The report follows numerous complaints from viewers unhappy about the quality of broadcasts on the sports extravaganza.
After the Olympics, the commission entrusted an independent panel to review the performances of four television stations that had the rights to broadcast the Games: Taiwan Television (TTV,台視), China Television (CTV, 中視), Chinese Television System (CTS, 華視) and Formosa Television (FTV, 民視).
The panel has found that CTS was the only station that followed time limits for ad breaks.
FTV, on the other hand, was found to have inappropriately interrupted broadcasts with ads on three occasions, while CTV was reported to have canceled the coverage of a basketball game without prior notice and rerun the Games opening ceremony in its place.
More details of the investigation are expected in the next few weeks.
For the 2010 Soccer World Cup and 2012 London Olympics, the commission recommended that coverage not be restricted to the four channels.
Rather, cable television stations that could provide a digital service should be given the opportunity to cover the events as well.
The first of 10 new high-capacity trains purchased from South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem arrived at the Port of Taipei yesterday to meet the demands of an expanding metro network, Taipei Rapid Transit Corp (TRTC) said yesterday. The train completed a three-day, 1,200km voyage from the Port of Masan in South Korea, the company said. Costing NT$590 million (US$18.79 million) each, the new six-carriage trains feature a redesigned interior based on "human-centric" transportation concepts, TRTC said. The design utilizes continuous longitudinal seating to widen the aisles and optimize passenger flow, while also upgrading passenger information displays and driving control systems for a more comfortable
Instead of focusing solely on the threat of a full-scale military invasion, the US and its allies must prepare for a potential Chinese “quarantine” of Taiwan enforced through customs inspections, Stanford University Hoover fellow Eyck Freymann said in a Foreign Affairs article published on Wednesday. China could use various “gray zone” tactics in “reconfiguring the regional and ultimately the global economic order without a war,” said Freymann, who is also a nonresident research fellow at the US Naval War College. China might seize control of Taiwan’s links to the outside world by requiring all flights and ships entering or leaving Taiwan
Taiwan's first indigenous defense submarine, the SS-711 Hai Kun (海鯤, or Narwhal), departed for its 13th sea trial at 7am today, marking its seventh submerged test, with delivery to the navy scheduled for July. The outing also marked its first sea deployment since President William Lai (賴清德) boarded the submarine for an inspection on March 19, drawing a crowd of military enthusiasts who gathered to show support. The submarine this morning departed port accompanied by CSBC Corp’s Endeavor Manta (奮進魔鬼魚號) uncrewed surface vessel and a navy M109 assault boat. Amid public interest in key milestones such as torpedo-launching operations and overnight submerged trials,
Quarantine awareness posters at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport have gone viral for their use of wordplay. Issued by the airport branch of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency, the posters feature sniffer dogs making a range of facial expressions, paired with advisory messages built around homophones. “We update the messages for holidays and campaign needs, periodically refreshing materials to attract people’s attention,” quarantine officials said. “The aim is to use the dogs’ appeal to draw focus to quarantine regulations.” A Japanese traveler visiting Taiwan has posted a photo on X of a poster showing a quarantine dog with a
RSS