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• On January 13, 2014, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) officially

announced the result of the auction for the national commercial digital television license for broadcasting
in standard definition (SD) variety channel. Mono Broadcast Co., Ltd. won the auction as the sixth highest
bidder at the bid price of 2,250 million Baht.


• On February 28, 2014, Mono TV Co., Ltd. has changed its registration name to Mono Sport
Entertainment Co., Ltd. which currently operates to organize sports tournament and other related activities
including team management and sports club establishment.


• On February 19, 2014, the Meeting of the Board of Directors No. 2/2014 passed a resolution
approving to propose to the Companys Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to consider and ratify the

participation in the auction for and subsequent acquisition of the license to use allocated frequencies for
national commercial digital television services for broadcasting in standard definition (SD) variety channel
from the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) and other necessary and
relevant actions, including the compliance with preconditions for the issuance of the License, which has
a total value of 3,186.56 million Baht.


• On March 6, 2014, MThai Top Talk-About 2014 was held to present awards to the most talked-about
actors/actresses, artists, and personalities from various fields on the Internet.


• On April 29, 2014, MONO29 channel started trial broadcast under the concept of Free TV with the
most number of great movies and popular TV series and provided a variety of premium contents, namely

Thai and international movies, sitcom and series.

• In May 2014, Mono Publishing launched a new monthly magazine, Bioscope, which presents all

movement of movie industry. Mono Publishing has acquired the production and distribution rights of this
magazine from Bioscope Plus Co., Ltd.


• In May 2014, the press conference of 2014 Thailand Basketball League (TBL) was organized by
Basketball Sport Association of Thailand (BSAT). The 2014 TBL was scheduled to take place during May
31 - August 23, 2014 and broadcast via MONO29, the sponsor acquiring broadcast rights of this league.
In addition, Mono Group introduced Mono Vampire, the companys basketball team, to compete in this

basketball tournament.

• In July 2014, Mono Technology PCL. was awarded the Best mai-Listed Company in 2014 in

MONEY & BANKING AWARDS 2014 Ceremony, held by Money & Banking Magazine. This honourable
award is presented to the company that has achieved the best outstanding performance among mai-listed
companies in that particular year.


• In July 2014, Mono Music founded three new music labels that are classified for each specific target
group. Mono Fugo focuses on T-Pop dance music, Fellow Music dedicates its works to easy listening music,
and Garan Records is the genuine rock label.



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