The most popular type of television program, moreover, is news. In a survey conducted by the Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, 84 % of respondents said they watch news and weather forecasts every day. That's 5 % more than five years earlier.
中研院民族所八十四年的研究也顯示，百分之八十四的受訪民眾每天都會收看電視新聞及氣象預報；和五年前同樣的調查相比，數字上升了百分之五。