Faced with unsustainable losses, Global TV's owners began to wonder about Chao Yi's ability to run the company. They also brought in new capital from the Democratic Progressive Party-oriented Chuan-min Communications. Chao Yi and Tenray Chou didn't concur with their new partner's ideology, but were in no position to object, so they had to leave.
在不堪賠累的壓力下，環球股東質疑趙怡的經營能力，引進以民進黨籍立委為主的「全民電通公司」資金，趙怡和周天瑞覺得理念不合，又無法抗拒，只好出走。