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Workpoint TV
Workpoint TV is a digital television station in Thailand, operated by Workpoint Entertainment Public Company Limited.

History
Workpoint began to experiment with satellite television broadcasting on September 26, 2011, and the official program schedule was set from October 3, the same year. Workpoint was originally scheduled to end the trial broadcasting period and officially start broadcasting on January 1, 2012, but Workpoint's operating building in Pathum Thani province suffered a major flood, the said schedule was postponed to February 20 of the same year. Subsequently, on December 26, 2013, Workpoint Public Company Limited assigned Thai Broadcasting Company Limited, a subsidiary to participate in the auction of the program channel with the Broadcasting Committee television business and the National Telecommunications Commission or NBTC for digital terrestrial television broadcasting. In the general program category, high definition television and normal definition television, the result showed that Thai Broadcasting Co., Ltd. won the auction in the normal definition television category, channel number 23, and started to test terrestrial broadcasting on April 1, 2014.

News
Workpoint channel started to have news programs via satellite in 2012 by hiring Matichon to produce the program. It started broadcasting started on August 6, 2012. Later, news stories were added at various times and hourly news was added at the end of 2015. Workpoint channel wanted to build its own news team. Therefore, the time of the news program, which belonged to the original Matichon TV, was restored to produce all by itself. by setting up a news team "Workpoint News" to produce news programs from 2016 to the present. Later on November 18, 2019, a new program was launched. "Workpoint Today", an online news program of the Workpoint News team. Before the format of Workpoint News was transformed into a full-fledged online news agency under the name "Workpoint Today" in 2020 and separate the presentation area from the television news team originally renamed it. Workpoint 23 News, but still working together by Workpoint 23 News team, with the slogan "Truth comes first", which was introduced on March 3, 2020.

Awards

 * The Golden Television Award is organized by the Television Promotion Club and the Chamnong Rangsikul Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture.

- Year 2019, the 34th time in the category of outstanding cultural award for "Khun Phra Chuay" program

- Year 2019, 34th time, Outstanding Youth Program Award for "Super 10" Program


 * Awards for Social Benefit Agency for the year 2020 organized by Ministry of Social Development and Human Security with the Association for the Mentally Impaired of Thailand

- Type of organization that makes contributions to society for the program "Panya Pansuk" And "Mi Thong Kum" program.


 * Outstanding Media Award Disaster and Environment for the year 2020 organized by the Disaster Communication Development Center, Thai PBS Television Station

- Media Awards For Tsunami Disaster, Outstanding Awards on Disaster News Coverage 2020 (Members of News Media), Best Online Media category for WorkpointToday.


 * Siamrath Online Award 2020, organized by Siamrath Co., Ltd. and Saen Ru Co., Ltd.

- Popular TV program award category for program "10 Fight 10"


 * Thailand Zocial Awards organized by Vicesite (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

- Year 2020, Best Entertainment on Social Media award category for "The Rapper" program


 * Maya Awards hosted by Maya Channel

- Year 2020 in the category of Outstanding Promotion and Encouragement Program Award for "Panya Pansuk" Program

- Year 2019, award category of the most popular digital television station, No. 1 for Workpoint Channel


 * Prachabodee Award, organized by the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security

- In 2019, the Honor Award for Creative Media for the 3rd year in a row for "Mi Thong Kum" Program


 * Best Digital News Award organized by Online News Producers Association

- Year 2019, Outstanding Award Category Online news from top social media issues for Workpoint Online.

- Year 2019, consolation prize category Online news category promotes technology, science and innovation of Thailand to Workpoint Online


 * Asian Academy Creative Awards

- Year 2019, Winner-Best Sports Program award category for program "10 Fight 10"


 * Asian Television Awards

- Year 2019, Award for Best Program in Asia, Winner-Best General Entertainment Program for "The Rapper"


 * Subcommittee on Moral and Ethics in the Committee on Religion, Morality, Ethics, Arts and Culture, the Senate Awards

- Year 2021 Good People Organization Shield that produces media to promote morality and ethics

Programming
Workpoint provides the 18 hours 15 minutes regular broadcasting schedule every week. The programming is divided into three sections which are a weekday (Monday-Thursday), special weekday (Friday), and weekend (Saturday-Sunday). The prime time of the television show is after 8.00 pm so the latest episode of all the shows will be broadcast during this time. On weekday afternoons the rerun, old episode, or low-rating program will be provided for someone who wants to watch the show again. During the weekend the show will be different by focusing on a family program or comedy show for the family to watch on a family day.

Sub-company
Workpoint Entertainment has lots of sub-company in many branches such as broadcasting companies, music companies, and playhouse companies.

Broadcasting company

 * Thogloam Company Limited
 * Thai Broadcasting Company Limited
 * Flagship Entertainment Company Limited

Music company

 * Ground Company Limited

Playhouse company

 * Siam Ganesha Company Limited

Exhibition company

 * Bangkok Exhibition Company Limited

Movie making company

 * Workpoint Picture Company Limited

Sales company

 * Nanonesia Company Limited