Digital terrestrial television in Thailand

The digital terrestrial television system was launched in Thailand in 2014. it employs DVB-T2 as its digital encoding standard.

The Broadcast Commission (BC) under the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) announced in the last quarter of 2013 that it plans to give DTTV license through open auction within December 2013. The prospectus has been priced at 1 million baht and many of the incumbent content owners providers as well as studios bought the prospectus. If all goes well, the auction will result in 4 categories of licenses: High Definition TV, Standard Definition TV, Children TV and Digital News TV. The number of provider who will survive the auction is still unknown.

Prior to the auction announcement, BC quietly granted a bottleneck "network" license to existing government incumbent which means that all the new DTTV providers have to send DTTV signal to these governmental MUX providers at the price fixed by the providers themselves. In response to claim of uncertainty and in order to lessen financial risk to potential bidders might face after the granting of license, BC came out to state that it encouraged the "potential" bidders to "negotiate" MUX price/charge before going into the bidding room.

List of channels on multiplexes

24 Commercial broadcasting

Owner	Variety HD	Variety SD	News
The One Enterprise	One 31	GMM 25	No
Bangkok Media	PPTV	No	No
BBTV	7HD	No	No
Triple V	Thairath TV	No	No
Amarin	Amarin TV	No	No
RS Vision	No	Channel 8	No
Workpoint	No	Workpoint TV	No
Nation	No	No	Nation TV
True	No	true4U	TNN16
Mono Next	No	MONO29	No
JKN Global Group (former: DN Broadcasting)	No	No	JKN18
BEC Multimedia	Channel 3 HD	No	No

24 public broadcasting (Local 12 public broadcasting)

Name	Owner	Type	Channel Number
NBT	The Government Public Relations Department	Public TV HD	2
Thai PBS	Thai Public Broadcasting Service	Public TV HD	3
Active Learning Television (ALTV)	Thai Public Broadcasting Service	Educational TV SD	4
Channel 5	Royal Thai Army	Public TV HD	5
T Sports	Ministry of Tourism and Sports	Sports channels SD	7
TPTV	The Secretariat of The House of Representatives	Parliament SD	10
NBT Regional TV	The Government Public Relations Department	Public and Regional TV HD	11
Channel 9 MCOT HD	MCOT PLC	Public Commercial TV HD	30

Multiplexes (MUX)

Digital television network operators in Thailand consists of Royal Thai Army (2 Multiplexes), MCOT, The Government Public Relations Department (PRD) and Thai Public Broadcasting Service (ThaiPBS)

PRD

TV5 MUX2

MCOT

TPBS

TV5 MUX5

Public Television	NBT HD (2)	Thai PBS HD (3)	ALTV (4)	Channel 5 HD (5)	T Sports (7)	TPTV (10)	NBT Regional TV (11)
News	TNN (16)	JKN18 (18)	Nation TV (22)
SD	Workpoint TV(23)	True4U (24)	GMM 25 (25)	Channel 8 (27)	MONO29 (29)
HD	MCOT HD (30)	One 31 (31)	Thairath TV (32)	Channel 3 HD (33)	Amarin TV (34)	Channel 7 HD (35)	PPTV (36)

See also

• Television in Thailand
• Digital television transition