The establishment of Taiwan television is documenting firmly upon the great influence of American commercial broadcasting on its postwar nation-building. This research is questioning the above saying by one rediscovered upon the debate for educational TV (ETV) from 1956 to 1962.
Based on the recent unearthed documents, one revisited this topic is significant. According to the biographical study on certain figures led the Ministry of Education, to introduce the concept of ETV and its policy is gone through a contradictory process between U.S. democracy introduction and its backlash from taking back control by authoritarian state. The short success of educational TV service in 1962 is overshadowed immediately by Chiang Kai-shek’s will to overthrown the liberal democracy channeled by U.S. aid. However, the transition to monopoly media and state in sixties documented by this criticism is shed the light on the study of emergent TV in Taiwan.