[W. Knight]

Along the same lines, today marks the 24th year since the 1999 earthquake in Central Taiwan.

Here's a look at how local TV channels reported on the quake. Since the quake occured at the early hours of the day, there wasn't instant live news coverage - an on-screen roller would be suffice.
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[*]TTV, then still controlled by the government, displayed a roller of text on the side, denoting the earthquake.
[*]CTV, then controlled by KMT, put up a newsflash caption stating the quake's epicenter, the resulted power outage and damages (around 1 minute in).
[*]FTV, the island's first publicly-owned commercial station, simulcast CNN's coverage, despite having their own cable news channel for 2 years (around a minute and half in, in terrible signal).


This is a detailed report from another government broadcaster CTS' Evening News that night:
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And this is TTV's special report, specifically 30 hours after the fact.
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Over in Hong Kong, this was how TVB News reported the earthquake that evening, utilizing footage of their sister cable channel, TVBS-N.
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