All-Malay broadcasts in the South
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The National Broadcasting Services of Thailand (NBT) will next year entirely switch to broadcasting in the Malay dialect on its TV and radio stations in the South, Prime Minister's Office Minister Nivatthamrong Boonsongpaisal said yesterday.
Currently, NBT’s deep South stations broadcast in the Malay dialect for only a few hours a day.
Nivatthamrong, whose office operates the NBT under the government’s Public Relations Department, said he would instruct the stations to broadcast in the Malay dialect round-the-clock from January.
Most residents of the Muslim-majority border provinces speak the Malay dialect.
The Malay programming on Channel 11 in the South would include documentaries and entertainment from other TV stations, Nivatthamrong said, adding that the Malay programmes would help listeners and viewers in the South by providing information from the government as well as work opportunities.
