１９９８年初，中共海口市委、市政府顺应时代潮流，加大新闻改革的力度，率先在全国地市级城市台中实行了广播电视的合并：撤消了原海口电视台、海口人民广播电台，并将原海口电视台的有线电视频道、筹建中的广播交通音乐频道、广播电视报和原两台下属的经济实体合并为一体， In early 1998, CPC Haikou municipal party committee and municipal government conform to the trend of the times and stepped up efforts to reform the news. They took the lead in implementing the merger of radio and television in Taichung, a prefecture-level city in China. They canceled the original Haikou TV Station and Haikou People’s Broadcasting Station, The cable television channels of TV stations, radio and music channels in preparation for construction, radio and television newspapers and the economic entities under the original two are merged into one,