Also, on January 7th, the Fair Trade Commission of the Executive Yuan announced that they were fining Eastern TV NT $ 3.2 million because they had not applied for approval before buying four system operators.
行政院公平交易委員會則於元月七日，依公平交易法判決東森因收購四家系統業者應向該會申請結合而未申請，處以新台幣三百二十萬元罰鍰。