MCOT HD (in Thailand called Channel 9 MCOT HD th, ช่อง 9 เอ็มคอตเอชดี) is a Thai
free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...
television network launched on 24 June 1955 and owned by
MCOT.
History
The channel was originally launched as Channel 4 Bang Khun Phrom (ช่อง 4 บางขุนพรหม) with test transmissions beginning on 6 September 1954 and beginning formal broadcasts on 24 June 1955. The then new channel operated under the management of the Thai Television Company (founded 1952). The channel began to broadcast daily in 1957.
In 1974, the channel migrated from broadcasting in black-and-white at 525-lines on VHF channel 4 to a colour using a 625-line system on VHF channel 9 (the second in Southeast Asia). On 3 February 1977, the Thai Television Company was dissolved and channel 9 was put under direct State administration.
On 28 June 1981,
Princess Sirindhorn and King
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bhumibol Adulyadej ( th, ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช; ; ; ( Sanskrit: ''bhūmi·bala atulya·teja'' - "might of the land, unparalleled brilliance"); 5 December 192713 October 2016), conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Grea ...
officially inaugurated the new
MCOT buildings on a 57-meters-square terrain with a television transmission, the largest in the country at the time, at 9:25 am. On 16 July 1987, Channels
3 and 9 signed a broadcasting expansion agreement. In 1992,
Sangchai Sunthornwat became the director of MCOT.
On 6 November 2002, the channel was rebranded as
Modernine TV. During the
2006 Thai coup d'état
The 2006 Thai ''coup d'état'' took place on 19 September 2006, when the Royal Thai Army staged a '' coup d'état'' against the elected caretaker government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The ''coup d'état'', which was Thailand's f ...
, the network was forced to stop broadcasting.
Logo
File:Ch4 Logo.png, 1955 – 1974
File:MCOT Logo (1974-1977).png, 1974 – 1977
File:MCOT Logo (1977-2002).jpg, 1977–2002
File:MCOT-Modernnine TV EN 2002.svg, 2002 and 2013–2015 (English)
File:MCOT-Modernnine TV TH 2002.svg, 2003–2012 (Thai)
File:Channel 9 MCOT HD 2017.png, 2015-2018
File:MCOT Ch9 Logo.png, 2018-present
See also
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Media of Thailand
References
External links
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{{ASEAN TV
24-hour television news channels
Television stations in Thailand
Television channels and stations established in 1955
1955 establishments in Thailand