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Formosa Television () is a

television station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's s ...

based in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Established on March 27, 1996, FTV began broadcasting on June 11, 1997 as the first

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

television station established without direct relationship to a political party or the Taiwanese government. On May 24, 2004, FTV was among the first free-to-air channels in Taiwan to switch from terrestrial analog signal to

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Programming

Because of the location of its headquarters, which is in an area where

Taiwanese Hokkien Taiwanese Hokkien ( , ), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taigi ( zh, c=臺語, tl=Tâi-gí), Taiwanese Southern Min ( zh, c=臺灣閩南語, tl=Tâi-uân Bân-lâm-gí), Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively ...

speakers are populous, FTV earned the reputation for being the first station in Taiwan to use that tongue in a majority of its programs, especially on its prime time newscasts. FTV is considered to be part of the

Pan-Green Coalition The Pan-Green coalition, Pan-Green force or Pan-Green groups is a nationalist political coalition in Taiwan (Republic of China), consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP), Social Democratic Party ...

and was found to show "obvious political bias" in favor of the

Democratic Progressive Party The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a centre to centre-left Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan. As the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition, one of the two main political camps in Taiwan, the DPP is currently the ...

by a media watchdog in 2010.

Around-the-clock broadcasting

Midnight on January 1, 2018 marked Formosa Television's first day of 24-hour

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ing, as Uni-President Enterprises Corporation celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a

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countdown broadcast.

FTV channels

*FTV HD * FTV News * FTV One (formerly known as Follow Me TV) *FTV Taiwan *FTV Drama (Online-only; aired local drama series, mainly weeknight soaps) *FTV Variety (Online-only; aired local entertainment shows) *FTV Travel (Online-only; aired some Travel and Living shows)

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* 1996 establishments in Taiwan Television stations in Taiwan Television channels and stations established in 1996 Chinese-language television stations Companies based in Taipei Mass media in Taipei Entertainment companies of Taiwan {{Taiwan-tv-stub

Programming

Around-the-clock broadcasting

FTV channels

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