As time went on, however, simply improving reception was not enough. Operators jumped the legislative gun and started showing movie videos (without, of course, buying the rights to them). And so, carrying programming not on the three over-the-air stations, cable systems began to get the name, "the fourth station."
但時間一久，單純的改善收視，無法滿足需求，於是有業者開始偷跑，加映未取得版權的錄影帶，這有別於三家電視頻道藉由線纜播送的節目，就被簡稱為「第四台」。