CTH Public Company Limited ( CTH ), once known as Cable Thai Holding Public Company Limited, was a Thai pay television operator and Internet broadband services supplier. It was founded by a large group of cable television operators as cable Thai Holding, a holding company established for dealing and parcel its content. It was offering pay television channels on an analogue CATV system which had a largest customer base in Thailand with over 2.5 million households earlier started its own give television clientele as CTH. [ 1 ] CTH holds English Premier League broadcast rights for temper 2013/14 public treasury 2015/16 in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. [ 2 ]

history [edit ]

early history [edit ]

cable television Thai Holding Public Company Limited was set up in August 2009 by over 100 Thailand cable television receiver operators with initial capital of 50 million baht. Its mission was to provide television receiver program licenses, unite distribution channel line up, market for member cable operators to expand their subscriber base. [ 3 ]

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In February 2010, the company, headed by president Kesem Inkaew who was besides president of the united states of Thailand Cable television Association, started its CTH chopine with 26 leading cable channels broadcast via ABS1 satellite for its extremity cable operators to redistribute to their subscribers. [ 4 ]

expansion [edit ]

major change to the company organization happened in April 2012, when Wichai Thongtang, a businessman and former Thaksin Shinawatra lawyer, acquired 25 % of CTH while Thai Rath newspaper kin, headed by Vachara Vacharapol, acquired another 25 % of the caller. CTH besides looked for another partner for 20 % venture while the remaining 30 % was placid held by cable operators. The company capital was besides raised to 1 billion baht. Wichai Thongtang became the company chair. [ 5 ] In August 2012, TrueVisions announced partnership with CTH to allow CTH access to nine channels produced by TrueVisions. [ 6 ] In November 2012, CTH won the broadcast veracious to English Premier League from 2013–14 to 2015–16 seasons with the highest price in Asia and the moment highest in the world valued $ 320 million. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The serve started broadcast via cable-TV providers and on satellite via Vinasat-2 in mid-august 2013, barely weeks before English Premier League started its newly season. In September 2013, CTH filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. and its local caller, Apple South Asia ( Thailand ), accusing of violating cerebral property rights for commercial purposes and counterfeiting or altering a register trademark for ฿100 million after they allow an app call “ Sports Channel ” that allow the user to watch EPL live broadcasts to be sold on Apple ‘s App Store. [ 9 ] In January 2014, CTH collaborated with PSI Holdings to offered English Premier League packages in lower price aiming to expand the subscribers. CTH besides acquired the circulate rights to WWE programmes in a five-year softwood to broadcast on CTH Sport Spirit impart and by and by on dedicated CTH WWE channel. [ 10 ] In February 2014 the caller stated that it would focus more on satellite-TV operators to expand its subscriber base and by June the party reduced its cable partners to about 100 operators from 170. [ 11 ]

In June 2014 CTH Public Company Limited chose Inview Technology and Irdeto to introduce OTT and hybrid versions of its cable services. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In July 2014, CTH announced occupation partnership with GMM Grammy to acquired its pay-TV auxiliary, GMM B who is operating pay-TV business branded Z Pay-TV, including its channels and capacity such as UEFA Euro 2016 in exchange of 10 % venture of CTH. [ 15 ]

precipitation [edit ]

In November 2015, CTH began to revoke its service via over 170 local anesthetic cable television service providers after they turned the focus into satellite television receiver after the amalgamation of GMM B. [ 16 ] In the same calendar month, they lost Premier League bid for the adjacent three seasons to beIN Sports with a lower price than theirs from the last three years. In recently January 2016, CTH cancelled their z Pay-TV packages provided for GMM Z customer following by the cancellation of its channels on PSI and RS Sunbox packages in February 2016. [ 17 ] On 1 August 2016, CTH ceased its KU-band air via Thaicom satellite after they laid off its around 100 employees and announced to cease all of their broadcasting military service on 1 September 2016 after its equal TrueVisions acquired sub-licensing rights to broadcast Premier League from beIN Sport until 2019. CTH said it can no longer withstand the shock of the economic slowdown. It was reported the caller has a losses of about 20 billion baht. [ 18 ] [ 19 ]

controversy [edit ]

WWE file a lawsuit against CTH in August 2015 after they failed to pay the license fee since March 2014 and being warned that the company was in breach of agreement. WWE was awarded $ 23.8 million by the union court. CTH stopped its broadcast of WWE contents on 7 September 2015. [ 20 ] On 14 December 2016, Fox Networks Group Asia has filed legal actions against Bangkok Bank as a guarantor for distribution fees of their contract with CTH and GMM Grammy for $ 71 million. [ 21 ]

Channels [edit ]

Channels produced by CTH [edit ]

Sports

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  • Stadium 1
  • Stadium 2
  • Stadium 3
  • Stadium 4
  • Stadium 5
  • Stadium 6
  • Stadium X

Channels produced by GMM B [edit ]

Sports [edit ]

  • GMM Football Extra
  • GMM Football Plus
  • GMM Football Euro
  • GMM Club Channel
  • GMM Sport Extreme
  • GMM Sport Plus

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