英美與台灣學界已將傳播政治經濟學等同於「批判的傳播政治經 濟學」（critical political economy of communication, CPEC)。本文從歷 史變遷、社會整體、道德哲學及實踐等四個特徵，對比CPEC與新古典 經濟學之差異。其次，通過對《新聞學研究》等刊物的考察，作者察 覺並説明，CPEC較大規模地進入臺灣，是1992年以後的事。CPEC在 台灣主要用以分析並結合了廣播電視的改革活動（如地下電台、黨政 軍三退、公視建台與公集團電視運動），但也擴展到了其他許多的領域 與課題（如著作權，電影，媒體工作者的權利及勞動過程等）。最後， 作者以電視爲綱，每十年爲一區間，檢視電視在台灣發展四十年來的 四個問題：1960年代台灣電視的誕生因素，1970年代電視競爭的性 質，1980年代公視興起的意義，以及1990年代至今，全球化與帝國主 義的爭論在電視論述上的展現。

This essay elaborates four key features that underlie differences between a critical political economy (of communication, CPEC) and neo-classical economics. It then proceeds to examine leading journals and publications in this field and points out that CPEC has exerted its impact only after 1992 when major media reform activities took place in Taiwan, including mainly the free radio movement and campaigning for public television group etc. Additional issues related to copyright, film industry’s media workers, and labour processes among other diverse subjects have also received valid analyses from a CPEC perspective. The author concludes by suggesting that four topics be further diagnosed. Namely, they are the factors in the 1960s that determined TV’s character; second, how should the early intensive competition among the three TV stations in the early 1970s be interpreted; third, an assessment on the significance of efforts in setting up public service television since the 1980s; finally, clashes from globalization and cultural imperialism discourses as applied to TV since the 1990s.