Tenray Chou was director of reporting at the China Times in 1979, when Swun Yun-hsuan was ROC premier, and Taiwan's first television show in which government officials faced the camera to explain government policy was being aired. Chou planned the show jointly with the directors of reporting for the Central Daily News and the United Daily News. Even then Chou had a dim sense that the future lay with electronic media.
一九七九年周天瑞擔任中國時報採訪主任，當時孫運璿任行政院長，台灣第一個讓政府官員面對電視鏡頭說明施政理念的節目就由中時、中央、聯合報三家報社的採訪主任策劃，周天瑞已經隱隱預見未來媒體將進入「電子化」時代。