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The birth of the third TV network
Before the creation of the third TV channel in the country, there are only two TV companies, government-owned MBS, and city-owned KBC (now part of TBGI).

Austin Lee Yizung traveled to Gonghei in 1984 to contact ABS to build a new TV station to against the MBC-KBC duopoly on the country television services. So, he has joined the bidding of the third television service since then.

Since then, the groups of the bidding of the third television service are:
 * Macrocosm Broadcasting Company (by founding its television division, later founded its cable channel Entervision)
 * Yizung Broadcasting Network by Mark Lee, ABS, Golden Harvest, and its local investors.
 * Independent Broadcasting Malit (by creating regionwide companies, included FM Kamsheng)
 * Malitian Independent Network (MIN) by Hutchison Whampoa (later then-owner of Star TV), and the local investors.
 * City Television Network by the unknown investors.

As a result, IBM, MIN, and CTN's bids failed on the auction for the quality grounds, and YBN won on the bid. On February 4, 1986, YBN began its broadcasts at 16:30 with more local programming than KBC, in addition to not having the same "federal law" as that network. YBN was one of the founders of the Federation of Independent Broadcasting.

Since the launch of YBN, In 1990s, KBC, One of its longtime duopolies, was privatized and sold to TBG International. However, KBC aired the programs from TBG since the 1970s.

The drastically transformation: Division of public TV and the launch second regional channel
In 1993, When the FIB was created after boycotts against YBN for not creating a network of provincial stations, until then, KBC had a monopoly to operate a decentralized network. The government decided to drastically change the television industry, making a law to create the second channel of MBS, moving all cultural and educational programming from the main channel, and a private decentralized TV network with coverage in each province. 2 licenses were tendered, one for Kamsheng and one for Kwanbok, initially as independent channels with no specific affiliation. In late 1994, the “independent network” project, inspired by the indepedent stations of Hokusei, collapsed and the Hoi Yeung TV project began to bear fruit, inspired by the Gonghei Independent Television (GITV), ITS of Hokusei, and ITV of Anglosaw. On April 1, 1995, HTV began broadcasting simultaneously with tvG in Kwanbok. On Saturday at 6 a.m., the first program was broadcasted on the network, the launching ceremony was extended until the end of the broadcasting, being interrupted only to broadcast the first news, series and dramas.