Formosa Television (FTV) chose to establish its head office in Kaohsiung in 1997 in order to symbolize north-south parity. Nevertheless, as Chen Shen-ching, director of the FTV Southern Taiwan Center, explains: "We had to set up our main broadcasting studio in Taipei, otherwise we would have had to spend big money getting people down to Kaohsiung to appear on our news programs, variety shows, and whatnot."
為了象徵南北平衡，而把總公司設在高雄的民視，南部中心主任陳申青就表示「總棚還是得在台北，否則發通告沒人來，也不敷成本！」