Recent milestones of the network are in sports events, including having the distinction to offer exclusive coverage of the 2017 Universiade, which was held in Taipei.

Due to recent interest in soccer in Taiwan triggered by the success of its national team, it also bought the rights to broadcast on its free-to-air waves the 2018 FIFA World Cup for all matches from the round of 16 to the end of the tournament, thereby becoming the only channel which offered an event often reserved to cable TV channels.

In early 1968, Lieutenant General Wang Sheng, deputy director of the General Political Operations Department of the Ministry of National Defense (now the Political Operations Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense), proposed the establishment of a third TV station.

Afterwards, it was allowed to continue to generate income through traditional advertisements and maintain its 60-40 ratio of entertainment to news programming.

[citation needed] It was shown in 80 countries in more than 40 languages (including Tagalog on ABC-5 now known as TV5 aired as "Judge Bao" in the neighboring Philippines) and was the longest TV series ever produced by the CTS network.

Love (愛), the first Chinese series on CTS, shown in both Mandarin and Taiwanese (Hokkien), aired 68 episodes.

Doraemon (哆啦A夢), the Japanese animated series from the TV Asahi network, was shown in the Mandarin-dubbed version on CTS.

The Four Brothers of Peking (京城四少), the 53-part TV drama from the CTS network was set in the latter part of the Qing Dynasty.