One manager at a TV station analyzes the reason for Sanlih's success with viewers in southern Taiwan. Its variety shows, characterized by audience singing contests and by rapid patter between hosts and guest performers, "are very grass-roots in terms of the tastes of the audience in central and southern Taiwan."
一位在電視台工作的主管分析三立受南部觀眾歡迎的原因時表示，觀眾唱歌比賽和藝人表演脫口短劇的餐廳秀，「節目屬性對了中南部觀眾的胃口，非常草根性。」