Lu Chih-chu, having formerly worked at TVBS, says that at first Taiwan-based TVBS also wanted to go the route of "the channel of Chinese in East Asia." But the station's interview sources and base are still in Taiwan. So they discovered that the only way they could succeed was to "become more and more Taiwanized."
力霸友聯總經理盧治楚也曾任職 TVBS，他透露，TVBS 開始也想走「東亞華人頻道」的路線，但是採訪觸角、據點都在台灣，發現「愈走愈台灣化」的策略才能成功。