According to a study by Feng Chien-san, a professor of journalism at National Cheng Chih University, as in 1993 Taiwan's TV media spent--according to an average of high and low estimates--NT $ 4.8 billion buying foreign programming. If you also count movie tickets and videotape and LD consumption, the deficit for Taiwan in terms of video products reached perhaps NT $ 13.8 billion.
根據政治大學新聞系教授馮建三的研究統計，一九九三年台灣電視媒體花在購買外國節目的金額平均超過四十八億元；如果把電影院票房和錄影帶、影碟的消費金額也算進去，台灣影視產品對外入超金額高達一百三十八億元。