Two pro-red shirt satellite television stations, PEACE TV and TV24, have been suspended on the direction of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).
Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), said the services of PEACE TV were suspended from Friday, April 10 to Thursday, April 16. TV24's broadcasts are off air Saturday, April 11 to Friday, April 17.
The broadcasting committee of the NBTC ordered their services suspended because three programmes on each station were considered to instigate confusion, conflict and division in the country, which violated the orders of the NCPO on seeking cooperation on public information.
Both satellite stations serve the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) which backs former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. They are located at Imperial World Ladprao shopping centre on Lat Phrao Road in Bangkok.
TV24 is the new name of the Asia Update channel and PEACE TV is formerly known as the DNN station. Their services under the old names were stopped on May 20 last year when martial law started to take effect just before the May 22 coup.
Both stations, together with other politically related satellite TV channels, resumed their broadcasting under new names in September upon receiving permission from the NCPO.