TVBS

TVBS
Launched	1993-09-28
Owned by	TVB (Hong Kong); TVBS (Taiwan)
Country	Republic of China
Headquarters	Taipei
Sister channel(s)	TVBS Entertainment Channel, TVBS News, TVBS Asia
Website	www.tvbs.com.tw
Availability
Cable
Taiwan CATV	Channel 56

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TVBS Nangang building in Taipei City

TVBS or Television Broadcasts Satellite is a satellite television channel and nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan, Republic of China, launched on September 28, 1993. It was established by TVBI Company Limited (TVBI), a subsidiary of Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) in Hong Kong, and ERA Group of Taiwan, and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Television Broadcasts Limited of Hong Kong in early 2005.

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TVBS operates four channels:

Government Information Office (GIO) Republic of China (commonly known as "Taiwan") head Pasuya Wen-chih Yao claims TVBS violated Republic of China 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.^[1]
Zhou Zheng-bao Video Tape incident (周政保影帶事件): happened on March 26, 2007.^[2]^[3]^[4] On March 30, the NCC fined TVBS a total of two million New Taiwan dollars and required TVBS to replace the general manager.^[5]

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