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Launched
  
September 28, 1993

Taiwan CATV
  
Channel 56

Headquarters
  
Taipei, Taiwan

Owned by
  
TVBS Media Inc

Website
  
www.tvbs.com.tw

CEO
  
Harvey Chang (2015–)

Founded
  
1993

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Country
  
Republic of China (Taiwan)

Sister channel(s)
  
TVBS Entertainment Channel, TVBS News, TVBS Asia

TV shows
  
Taste of Love, The Way We Were, Boysitter, Rock N' Road, Love Contract

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TVBS Media Inc. began its broadcast through satellite DTH and local cable systems on September 28, 1993. As the first privately owned broadcaster, it broke the decades-long oligopoly of the three state-owned terrestrial television stations in the Taiwan market. TVBS currently operates five television channels, which are TVBS’ 56 Channel, TVBS News, TVBS Entertainment, TVSB-Asia (overseas), TVB8 (MOD).

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“Innovation and Justice” are the core values of TVBS Media Inc.. It established of Taiwan’s first entertainment variety channel, TVBS-G, and the country’s first 24-hour news channel, TVBS-News.

TVBS Media Inc. was the first network to go full HD, from filming to production to broadcast. It was the first to introduce 4K cameras paired with movie-quality lenses to film and produce its dramas, programs, and news special reports.

TVBS Media Inc. has won several Golden Bell awards. TVBS News’ ratings consistently lead other networks.

TVBS channels

TVBS operates four channels:

  • TVBS
  • TVBS Entertainment Channel
  • TVBS-NEWS
  • TVBS-Asia

    • Controversy

  • Government Information Office (GIO) Taiwan head Pasuya Yao claims TVBS violated Taiwan media ownership laws, requiring that a foreign juristic person should not directly own majority shares of local satellite channels. On November 1, 2005, the announced a fine of NT$1 million against TVBS and ordered that it comply with the ownership rules in a practical timeframe, and afterwards TVBS appealed to Executive Yuan against Yao's decision. TVBS stated that TVB held majority ownership of the company by a local juristic person. Executive Yuan announced that TVBS's ownership models is legal and GIO are required to return the fine.
  • Bitumen duck incident (瀝青鴨事件): happened on December 29, 2006. Although TVBS apologized, the incident had already caused damage to the duck industry.
  • Zhou Zheng-bao Video Tape incident (周政保影帶事件): happened on March 26, 2007. On March 30, the NCC fined TVBS a total of two million New Taiwan dollars and required TVBS to replace the general manager.

    • References

    TVBS Wikipedia
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