
An Empty Chair for PTS
Taiwan’s public broadcaster is caught in a political double bind: its sitting board chair has been expelled from parliament, and the opposition is blocking a replacement.

Convergence Media Group (匯流傳媒集團), also known as CMG, is a Taipei-based digital media and data analytics group founded in 2016 by Wu Shih-chang (吳世昌), who serves as chair. Its core outlet is CNEWS (匯流新聞網), a digital news portal covering politics, technology, healthcare, finance, and cross-strait affairs. According to the group’s corporate profile, CMG integrates news production, public opinion polling, big data analytics, video production, and integrated marketing under a single structure, describing itself as one of the few Taiwan-based digital media groups to combine these functions. Subsidiaries include Trend Opinion Poll (趨勢民意調查), Taiwan Survey Network (臺灣調查網), Lowi AI Big Data (Lowi AI 大數據輿情平台), and Milestones International (脈動國際). The group claims to operate Taiwan’s largest telephone survey call center, with 170 workstations across facilities in Taipei and Taichung. In January 2025, Wu gave an exclusive interview to the China Review News Agency (中國評論通訊社), or CRNTT, a Hong Kong-based news agency that, according to its own about page, was established in 1997 under the personal guidance of Wang Daohan (汪道涵), then-chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (海峽兩岸關係協會), or ARATS, the PRC-backed quasi-governmental body that serves as Beijing’s designated counterpart to Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation (海峽兩岸關係基金會), or SEF, in cross-strait functional dealings.
