This study used statistics and archived information to reconstruct the native language–centric periodization of television history in Taiwan. Three characteristics of the party-state cultural governance in post-war Taiwan were analyzed: the power of marketization and the political economy of communication under an authoritarian regime; the self-fulfilling prophecy of language regulation due to the unusual silence of the dictators; and Chiang Ching-kuo’s Taiwanization policies—co-operating with Taiwanese political elites while strictly controlling the mass usage of the native language in everyday, for example, in television programs.