Antennae up for Euro 2012
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Attention cable-television subscribers - you'll want to track down your old TV antenna if you care anything about football and want to watch the Uefa European Football Championship.
Soccer fanatics are strongly advised to secure their antenna now because the things will be flying off the shelves as the June 8 kick-off approaches.
Thanks to GMM Grammy, which won the broadcasting rights, Thai viewers will be able to watch Euro 2012 on free-to-air TV but not on cable as in the past.
If you don’t have an analogue TV antenna, all you’ll see is a blank TV screen during the Euro matches.
Of course, there are a few ways around the problem.
If you have a C-band or KU-band satellite dish you can watch if you have a GMM Z box from Grammy.
High-definition viewers can buy a gadget called DTV-HD1 for around Bt4,900 from the DTV satellite-cable operator. And then you can watch the Euro matches in hi-def.
Oak uprooted
Panthongtae “Oak” shinawatra, son of our ousted fugitive PM Thaksin, has learned that posting on the Internet about cheap food can be costly, especially when you recommend a food stall near the Democrat Party’s offices.
“My idea was just to share information on where we can find cheap food, but politics has got in the way fast,” Oak said on Facebook.
This was after he endured a social-media storm that accused him of “not telling the whole truth” when he tried to promote the food stall near the opposition’s headquarters.
The Democrats contend that Oak’s recommendation of the food stall that sells “delicious and cheap” roasted red pork with rice (khao moo daeng) was politically motivated because it’s the Dems who are leading the outcry over the rising cost of living. They blame Oak’s auntie, PM Yingluck, for the price increases.
One Facebook attacker pointed out that Thaksin’s son omitted a crucial fact – that the food stall had put up a sign saying the price for noodles with gravy (kuey tiew rad na) had gone up Bt5.
While the mighty Oak withers under the attack by the angry Democrats, the war of words has benefited one party – the food stall, which has had seen an increase in customers joining the continuous stream of newshounds.
