Big Tree Radio: A Brief Broadcasting Experiment
大樹下電台短暫的廣播實驗
Source: ET@T News — Under the Big Tree
From: ET@T News
Date: 1998/4/2 · Author: ET@T
In February 1998, FM 90.5 in Taipei suddenly began broadcasting Taiwan’s first radio station dedicated to rock, alternative, and experimental music. Conceived by Crystal Records founder Jen Chiang-ta, the station’s staff and presenters included Lu Chun-ping, Hsiao-shu, Ma Shih-fang, Ying Wei-min, and Hu Tzu-ping. By May of that year the station had abandoned this format and converted into what was essentially a home-shopping infomercial channel.
Among the station’s programmes, Ying Wei-min — frontman of the band Jia Tzu, known as “Hsiao Ying” — hosted “Hsiao Ying’s Psychological Destruction Hour,” a free-ranging show mixing wildly diverse music. He often developed programme ideas with his close friend Tsai Hai-en (a founding member of Bloody Pigs), exploring every sonic and talk-radio possibility imaginable. It stands as arguably the boldest experiment in Taiwanese broadcast history.