# 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 | 9MCOT HD (30) | One 31 (31) | Thairath TV (32) | Channel 3 HD (33) | Amarin TV (34) | Channel 7 HD (35) | PPTV (36) |