On January 30, 1997, ownership switched from Yu Pun-hoi (于品海), the current chairman of Nan Hai Corporation Limited (南海控股有限公司), to the Koos Group.

[citation needed] Hsiang Shan merged CTN with CTV Satellite to form Power TV (Chinese: 勁道數位電視).

[citation needed] In April 2019, The Nikkei reported that CTi-TV parent company received millions in subsidies from the Chinese government.

[1] In November 2019, Wang Liqiang, a self-proclaimed PRC spy who defected to Australia, claimed that CTi TV had received Chinese funding in return for airing stories unfavorable of the Taiwanese government.

[9] In the 2012 Anti-Media Monopoly campaign, National Yang-Ming University's post graduate Lin Ting An invited Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Noam Chomsky, an American linguist, philosopher and activist, to hold a placard with the campaign slogan in Chinese, loosely translated as Against media monopoly, refusing Chinese manipulation, protecting free press, I am in _ _ protecting Taiwan.

[11] CTi TV subsequently released the interview leaving out the translation of "I'm against media monopoly and I'm in favor of free press" and not providing any subtitles.

[12] After the public did a translation of Chomsky's interview and publicised the mistranslation and lack of subtitles, more than 200 complaints were filed against CTi TV with the NCC.