 The Chinese Professional Baseball League absorbed the TML in 2003.Throughout TML's history, all four teams were directly owned and managed by the Naluwan Corporation, a subsidiary of the TVBS media group both of which were then chaired by Chiu Fu-sheng.TVBS held the broadcasting right of CPBL games from 1993 to 1996 during CPBL's heyday, but lost it in August 1995 to Videoland Television Network, a subsidiary of the Koos Group whose baseball team Koos Group Whales later joined CPBL in 1997.