Production Statistics |
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Production statistics are unavailable for local television productions or hours produced annually, due to no governing body. Thai Television stations are non-English speaking, free-to-air and broadcast mainly news, entertainment and games shows mixed with nightly drama. It includes sports coverag e but mainly soccer, golf and Muay Thai Boxing. There are reportedly 111 Broadcasters and 15,190,000 receivers. It would be impossible to estimate viewing population of Thailand however the average family is around 5 thus this alone would take the numbers past the total population. There are lim ited cable and satellite broadcasters with new fibreoptic broadcasters due online Q1-Q2 2009 with some 400 channels online. The following tables are a breakdown of free-to-air, pay and cable channels and information specific to the broadcasters. |
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Broadcast Channels |
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Channel 3 |
(BEC-Bangkok Entertainment Company, under license from MCOT) |
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Channel 5 |
(Royal Thai Army Radio and Television) |
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Channel 7 |
(Bangkok Broadcasting & Television Company Limited under license from Royal Thai Army.) |
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Channel 9 |
(Modern Nine TV - MCOT) |
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National Broadcasting Services of Thailand |
(formerly Television of Thailand) (National public television, the Government Public Relations Department) |
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| Thai Public Broadcasting Service | (Formerly (iTV (Thailand), operated by Shin Corp. under license from the Prime Minister's Office; transferred to Department of Public Relations in 2007 and renamed TITV, became TPBS in 2008.) | ||||
Cable & Satellite Channels |
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ABtv 1 (Nation Channel) |
MV TV 2 |
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ABtv 2 (Variety Channel) |
Manager Bizz Channel |
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ABtv 3 (Financial Channel) |
NewsLine TV |
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ABtv 4 (Thai Buddhist Channel) |
NRI |
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Air Force Channel (Royal Thai Air Force) |
Parliament TV |
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AOT TV |
Pop Channel |
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BBTV Channel 7 |
Rak Thai TV |
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Body & Mind |
Smile Movies 1 |
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Distance Learning TV (10 Channels) |
Smile Movies 2 |
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Earth One |
Sportsline |
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EDN Edutainment |
T Channel - Freedom of Culture |
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ETV (Educational TV Station) |
TTV 1 (Nation Channel) |
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Faikham Internet TV |
TTV 2 (Variety Channel) |
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Filmagix Asia |
TTV 3 (Movies Channel) |
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HSTV Thai TV Color Ch3 |
TVT Channel 11 |
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ILearn |
TVT Channel 11 News 1 |
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Joy TV |
Thai Global Network |
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ME TV - Music & Entertainment |
Thailand Outlook Channel (TOC) |
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MV TV |
TITV |
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TrueVisions channels |
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True Academy Fantasia |
True X-Zyte |
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True Channel 10 |
True Zoccer |
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True Film Asia |
True Explore1 |
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True Inside |
True Explore2 |
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True News |
True Explore3 |
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True Series |
True Movie Hits |
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True Spark |
True Music |
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True Sport Plus |
NEWS 24 |
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In addition TrueVisions provides other channels summarized below: |
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Animal Pla net |
HBO Asia |
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AXN Asia |
MajungTV |
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BBC World |
Money Channel |
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Cartoon Network |
Star TV (Satellite Television for Asian Region Thailand) * |
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CCTV-4 |
Supersport |
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Chic Channel |
Supersport Action |
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Cinemax |
TA-TV (Thailand's Tourist Channel) |
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CNN International |
TV5 |
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CNBC Asia |
MTV Thailand |
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Discovery Channel |
VH1 Thailand |
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Hallmark Channel |
Nickelodeon |
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*Under Star TV there are the following: |
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| Channel [V] Thailand | |||||
| ESPN Thailand | |||||
| Fox News Channel | |||||
| Nat Geo Adventure Thailand | |||||
| National Geographic Channel Thailand | |||||
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| Star World | |||||
Cable And Satellite TV |
Other TV Stations |
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Thai Sky TV |
RTA Non-colour TV Channel 7 |
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IBC (Thailand) |
TTV Channel 4 |
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UTV (Thailand) |
M.C.O.T. Channel 9 |
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UBC (Thailand) |
ITV (Thailand) |
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TITV |
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National TV Network |
Smile TV Network |
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Moviemania |
Television of Thailand (Government Public Relations Dept) |
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Popper |
Rakthai TV |
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Panorama 07 |
World Fashion Thailand |
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Average budgets for local Feature Film productions, including Above and Below Line costs, are between Baht 10-12 million (USD285-343,000) but do not take into account such one off productions as Tom Yum Goong cost Baht 200M (USD5.5M), Suryiothai (reputedly Baht 600M – USD17.2M) or Naresuan (budget undisclosed) which would bump up costs artificially. You will note in the table below there are no figures on Suryiothai on world release despite being the third largest grossing movie in Thai Box Office. Box office statistics remain speculative as neither IMdb.com nor The Numbers.com track Thai films unless released internationally in core markets. The majority of Thai movies are Thai language only without subtitle and only released locally. A poor film can gross around Baht 40M (USD1.15M) at local Box Office and top films around Baht 600M (USD17.2M). The following table is indicative results but without access to budgets, not complete. |
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Released |
Thai Movie Names |
1st Weekend |
US Gross |
World Gross |
Budget |
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19-Oct-2001 |
Bangkok Dangerous (not Nic Cage) |
3,026 |
23,300 |
- |
- |
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21-Jan-2005 |
Beautiful Boxer |
8,713 |
133,920 |
- |
- |
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11-Feb-2005 |
Ong-Bak |
1,334,869 |
4,560,061 |
24,059,859 |
- |
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24-Jun-2005 |
Tropical Malady |
270 |
46,750 |
- |
- |
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7-Oct-2005 |
The Overture |
825 |
2,254 |
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- |
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8-Sep-2006 |
Tom Yum Goong |
5,034,180 |
12,044,087 |
43,044,087 |
5,700,000 |
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12-Jan-2007 |
Fah Talai Jone |
7,954 |
75,234 |
- |
- |
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15-Feb-2007 |
King Naresuan 2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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9-Mar-2007 |
Bodyguard Na Liam 2 |
- |
- |
1,429,816 |
- |
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30-Mar-2007 |
Faet |
- |
- |
6,301,481 |
- |
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11-Apr-2007 |
Mail Narok Muay Yok Lor |
- |
- |
967,845 |
- |
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18-Apr-2007 |
Sang Sattawat |
5,518 |
16,340 |
- |
- |
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31-May-2007 |
Teng Nong Khon Maha-Hia |
- |
- |
1,759,123 |
- |
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6-Jul-2007 |
Khon Fai Bin |
1,082 |
5,229 |
- |
- |
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20-Jul-2007 |
Kung Fu Tootsie |
- |
- |
1,682,173 |
- |
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27-Jul-2007 |
Isam Samawang |
- |
- |
419,094 |
- |
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7-Sep-2007 |
The House |
- |
- |
736,528 |
- |
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20-Mar-2008 |
Pidtermyai huajai wawoon |
- |
- |
1,200,000 |
- |
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20-Jun-2008 |
Rak Sam Sao |
- |
- |
659,482 |
- |
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18-Jul-2008 |
Wonderful Town |
1,154 |
3,239 |
- |
- |
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26-Sep-2008 |
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela |
2,700 |
5,364 |
- |
- |
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3-Oct-2008 |
Luang Pee Teng 2 |
- |
- |
1,277,605 |
- |
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6-Feb-2009 |
Chocolate |
11,180 |
14,845 |
- |
- |
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Totals |
16,930,856 |
83,863,801 |
5,700,000 |
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Averages |
1,410,905 |
6,988,650 |
5,700,000 |
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Production volume will continue to rise with production costs averaging 54% below US and 46% below Australia, no tax on Below Line crew and 10% tax on Above Line. Europe is more than double Thai cost of productions with time and dollar cost averaging for local crews making filming in Thailand extremely attractive for features. Thailand is a ‘right-to-work' country and as such no interference from Unions. The freelance industry is only just starting to develop as international filmmakers begin relocating into Thailand and forming companies to facilitate production thus obtaining non-immigration business status and work permits. Company formation in Thailand is inexpensive and as the business evolves many more are certain to being their skills into Thailand thus ensuring knowledge transfer, raising the levels of training and understanding between Thai crews and Western expectations. |
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