24 February

THE Ministry of Information and  the  Yangon  Region  Gov-ernment  held  a  meeting  to  launch a broadcast media City Channel yesterday afternoon.

The  meeting  held  at  the  office of Myanmar Radio and Television  was  attended  by  Union  Minister  Dr  Pe  Myint  and  Yangon  Region  Govern-ment  Chief  Minister  U  Phyo  Min Thein. 

Union Minister Dr Pe My-int explained quality upgrade of MRTV, working with Forev-er Group and Shwe Than Lwin media and five content provid-ers Mizzima, DVB, Channel K, YTV and Fortune TV. 

He also remarked the City Channel would become an effective  TV  channel  with  very  interesting  news  of  Yangon  city.

Yangon   Region   Chief   Minister  U  Phyo  Min  Thein  presented  broadcasting  and  publishing  City  FM  and  City  Newspaper  under  the  man-agement  of  Yangon  City  De-velopment  Committee,  and  preparations for transforming the  latter  into  online  digital  version  and  launching  a  TV  channel which can support for public  education  in  coopera-tion with MRTV.

Deputy Mayor of YCDC U Soe Lwin briefed on the objec-tives of City Channel.

Permanent  Secretary  U  Myo  Myint  Maung  held  talks  on possible plans for broadcast of  Yangon  City  Channel  and  other TV channels and content providers.

The  meeting  also  dis-cussed assistance of Ministry of  Information  and  coordina-tion  of  the  ministry  and  the  Yangon government to launch the new channel.

After the meeting, Union Minister  Dr  Pe  Myint,  Chief  Minister  U  Phyo  Min  Thein  and  officials  looked  around  Studio  1  and  newsroom.—MNA(Translated by Aung Khin)