Chinese Television System
Taiwanese television broadcast company
The Chinese Television System Inc. (Chinese: 中華電視公司; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Diànshì Gōngsī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiong-hôa-tiān-sī-kong-si; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄓㄨㄥ ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄙ) is a terrestrial television station in Taiwan and was founded in 1971. Recent milestones of the network are in sports events, including having the distinction to offer exclusive coverage of the 2017 Universiade, which was held in Taipei. This included airing the opening and closing ceremonies, plus major games, and it enabled its YouTube channel with several options to watch the rest of the games. Due to recent interest in soccer in Taiwan triggered by the success of its national team, it also bought the rights to broadcast on its free-to-air waves the 2018 FIFA World Cup for all matches from the round of 16 to the end of the tournament, thereby becoming the only channel which offered an event often reserved to cable TV channels.
History
In early 1968, Lieutenant General Wang Sheng, deputy director of the General Political Operations Department of the Ministry of National Defense (now the Political Operations Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense), proposed the establishment of a third TV station. The Ministry of National Defense negotiated with the Ministry of Education to obtain a willingness to cooperate. On December 6, 1968, Minister of Defense Chiang Ching-kuo and Minister of Education Yan Zhenxing agreed to cooperate to expand the Educational Television Broadcasting Station (Network of Educational Television) into China Television based on the following needs:
National education in the Republic of China has been extended to nine years. Due to the limited capacity of schools above high school, the problem of out-of-school youth has become increasingly serious. The Ministry of Education believes that by expanding a third TV station and establishing a television network, it can operate an air school to educate out-of-school youth and achieve "the ideal of reading without being separated from production" has achieved universal results with a very small number of teachers.
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