Army apologises for TV Channel 5 ‘broadcasting problem’

The Royal Thai Army has apologised to viewers of its TV Channel 5 for “broadcasting problems” on Monday, which occurred during news coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

On Monday, Channel 5 was presenting a report about the war in Ukraine when its signal was abruptly disconnected.

That led to speculation the Top News team, which supplies the news content to the army-owned station, would withdraw from the channel at the end of this month.

The army’s public relations centre on Thursday released a brief statement apologising to the people and viewers of the station for the disruption, attributing it to news information management and technical problems in broadcasting the programme on March 28.

Over past months, the army’s statement management committee had “discussed and formulated a balanced practice that was useful to society on the basis of performing a duty…