This year for the first time the ceremony was broadcast island-wide on television, immeasurably increasing the audience beyond the thousand dignitaries and well-wishers who crowded into Taipei's Armed Forces Cultural Center to watch the proceedings.
主辦單位新聞局出版處有鑑於此，決定從今年開始把典禮擴大舉行，並由中華電視台負責轉播，希望能藉著隆重的典禮以提高金鼎獎的知名度與權威性，喚起社會大眾對文化出版事業的重視。