The television industry in Taiwan is undergone major reforms since 1990s. As the Taiwan TV market was fully opened in 1992, the local TV stations simultaneously imported tremendous foreign TV programs from Japan. The central premise here is to examine exposure to and preference for imported television programs among the youth in Taiwan. The findings demonstrate that, Japanese programs are increasing in and become superior to the US in Taiwan recently. Although young people in Taiwan with hybrid viewing pattern, the audio-visual product from Japan which have greater cultural proximity than US ones will be more able to build a regional or geographical-cultural-language popular culture domain in Taiwan. As for the cultural influence, there are still many areas of doubt that need clarification. It is still needed to examine how the foreign program viewing behavior were propelled by local cultural industries, not government.
中文關鍵詞
全球化,日本節目,美國節目,電視節目,青少年
英文關鍵詞
Japanese programs,foreign programs,audience,television viewing