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During its 7am news show on April 20, Chinese Television System (CTS) — part of Taiwan Broadcasting System (TBS) — ran news tickers that said: “New Taipei City hit by Chinese People’s Liberation Army missiles,” “War on the brink of erupting” and “Vessel explodes in Taipei Harbor; facilities and ships destroyed.” More false tickers followed on that day, reading: “Oil field discovered in the Bashi Channel,” and “Fist-sized hailstones fall on Taipei at midnight, downtown traffic a mess.” Four days later, the CTS midday news program misidentified Premier Su Tseng-chang (�...

Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te (李永得) yesterday denied rumors that the government has identified candidates to replace Taiwan Broadcasting System (TBS) chairwoman Tchen Yu-chiou (陳郁秀) following her resignation last week over significant errors committed by two television stations operated by the publicly funded service. Lee, who oversees TBS, was asked to attend a meeting of the legislature’s Education and Culture Committee to answer questions from lawmakers regarding mistakes committed by the Public Television Service (PTS) and Chinese Television System (CTS), along with Tchen a...

<strong>Face it and fix it</strong> I found it ironic that, immediately after chairing an online program for the Public Relations Society of America’s Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (PRSA BEPS), I should log on to the Taipei Times’ Web site to read “Seven CTS staff punished over invasion news ticker” (April 22, page 3). Kudos first to former China Television Service (CTS) acting general manager Chen Ya-ling (陳雅琳) for taking a proactive, public stance and not trying to “hide” the episode. The public needs to know what happened and what is being done to ...

Taiwan Broadcasting System (TBS) chairwoman Tchen Yu-chiou (陳郁秀) and Chinese Television System (CTS) acting general manager Chen Ya-ling (陳雅琳) have resigned over the erroneous airing of news tickers announcing a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, CTS said yesterday. Tchen also resigned as chairwoman of CTS, which is part of the government-funded public broadcasting group TBS, a CTS statement said. The channel said it is conducting an investigation to determine the causes and circumstances leading to the erroneous news tickers, some of which said that China was attacking off the northern c...

Seven Chinese Television System (CTS) employees were disciplined for erroneously running news tickers announcing a Chinese invasion off the coast of northern Taiwan during its morning news program on Wednesday, the network said yesterday. The news alerts were created by the New Taipei City Fire Department for disaster drill purposes. CTS apologized for the error in a statement on Wednesday, saying that the mistake occurred due to the oversight of a program director who was tasked to shoot a disaster drill video for the New Taipei City Fire Department. The employee failed to restore the text f...