Thai authorities are going after pro-Thaksin broadcast stations.
Police raided three radio stations and a TV station, seizing
equipment and arresting personnel, media reports said.

The "Bangkok Post" also reported that the Internal Security
Operations Command (ISOC) ordered all community radio stations to
refrain from broadcasting messages that might cause political
unrest on pain of facing closure.

Police raided a radio station in Chiang Mai province operated by
the group Rak Chiang Mai 51, known for supporting former prime
minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Transmission equipment were seized
even as some 200 Red Shirts gathered outside the radio station to
protest.

In the northeastern province of Udon Thani, police also confiscated
transmission equipment of a radio station run by Kwanchai Praipana,
leader of the pro-Thaksin group Khon Rak Udon.

Wachira Khamsueb, a radio host of the station, was arrested and
charged with broadcasting without a license. He was later released
on bail.

Meanwhile, a hundred members of the Khon Rak Udon protested in
front of the police station.

Another radio station sympathetic to the Red Shirts, this time in
Lampang province, was also raided.

On 16 April, some 30 policemen entered the premises of DStation at
the Imperial Department Store in Lad Phrao, Bangkok. The police
found none of the TV station's staff. The seized several
broadcasting devices.

The Red Shirts used DStation to broadcast Thaksin's speeches and
also provided news coverage of the Red Shirt demonstrations.

Troops on 13 April seized control of the Thaicom satellite station
in Lat Lum Kaew, Pathum Thani province, which is used by DStation.