The TML
The Taiwan Major League was founded in 1997 by the chairman of TVBS, a popular cable TV channel company, after it lost the nine-year (1997 to 2006) broadcasting rights for CPBL games to Videoland Television Network. TVBS had held the broadcasting rights from 1993 to 1996.
The TML was meant to compete with the CPBL, but after 6 years of financial losses, it merged with the CPBL in 2003.
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