Red shirts' TV station was off the air again late Friday after soldiers re-occupied the ThaiCom satellite station in Pathum Thani.
The People TV's signal was blocked again, hours after the protesters had stormed the station and forced the authorities to reverse an earlier decision to ban it.
Army spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd on Saturday confirmed the move, saying said security forces had returned to the station late Friday after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had ordered that People Channel be blocked.
"We had retreated on Friday because we did not want any loss of life or to hurt anyone," Sansern said. "But the station is inciting violence and spreading false and provocative information and rumours to the detriment of the country."
On Friday, thousands of protesters had moved to the Thaicom earth station in Pathum Thani's Lat Lum Kaeo district, to force the station to reconnect their satellite-linked channel after the government had unplugged it on Thursday.
A brief clash with the soldiers guarding the area left 15 people, including five officials, slightly injured as they tried to get into the station compound.
However, the red victory lasted only a few hours.
A few minutes after former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra phoned in to the rally, People Channel was off the air again. The government deployed troops at the earth station in Pathum Thani again last night
