After taking on the three new departments, the GIO began new tasks. On the one hand it drafted the "Radio and Television Law," providing the first legal foundations for the long-extant radio and TV industries. Also, it created the ROC Film Development Fund, and established a film archive, thus saving many old films and the great effort their makers had put into them.
新聞局接掌三處後，一方面開始研擬「廣播電視法」，讓已有數十年歷史的廣播事業和十數年歷史的電視有法可據；另一方面，創設了中華民國電影事業發展基金會，籌設電影圖書館，就是今天電影資料館的前身，救下不少老電影。