The National Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday approved ELTA TV’s applications to launch three temporary channels to air the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in September, along with two other new sports channels.
The network broadcasts mainly on Chunghwa Telecom’s multimedia-on-demand system and already has three sports channels: ELTA Sports 1, ELTA Sports 2 and ELTA Sports 3.
NCC vice chairman and spokesman Wong Po-tsung (翁柏宗) said that the network is establishing three offshore channels to broadcast Asian Games events, with the licenses for the three channels to be returned by the end of the year.
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The network’s application for two more fixed channels has also been approved, Wong said.
ELTA Sports 4 would be dedicated to coverage of sports events involving athletes at all school levels, he said.
The channel would feature stories about athletes, coaches, referees and sports event staff, he said.
Another new channel, Inultra would air leisure and sports programs in 4K resolution, Wong said.
Separately, the NCC approved applications from 12 cable systems owned by Kbro Co and five owned by Taiwan Mobile Broadband to move SET iNews from channel 89 to channel 48.
The approval would enable the news channel to reach 2.71 million households with a penetration rate of nearly 60 percent, NCC data showed.
Commissioners were mostly concerned about how SET iNews would differentiate itself from SET News on channel 54, as they have many programs in common, Wong said.
“We were told that SET iNews would stop airing a political talk show during prime time and instead air two financial news programs,” he said.
“It also pledged to recruit workers once it has moved to the new channel,” he added.
SET iNews would move to channel 48 in two or three weeks, the NCC said, adding that the cable systems are required to run a ticker for five days describing the channel change.
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