Liu Yung's career reached its peak in 1978 when he was honored as the most outstanding television reporter by the Tsung Ho Television Monthly. On the same day, he decided to leave CTS in order to take up an invitation from the Government Information Office and the National History Museum to go on a lecture tour of the U.S. during which he would display his art works.
寫此文時劉墉的電視生涯正快速接近巔峰，民國六十七年，他被一本電視刊物選為「最受歡迎的電視記者」；就在同一天，他毅然辭去電視記者的工作，接受行政院新聞局及國立歷史博物館推介，前往美國開巡迴畫展及講學。