BCC Youth Network Launches
中廣青春網開台
Source: Music 543: An Interview with Tao Hsiao-ch’ing about Those Days on Youth Network
From: Underground Nostalgia Blues
Date: September 6, 2016. Author: Ma Shih-fang
The “BCC Youth Network,” which launched in 1988, was Taiwan’s first radio station targeting young listeners with round-the-clock popular music. It gathered a cohort of young DJs who were the most audaciously unruly in the history of Taiwan broadcasting — sounds that, to the ears of veteran announcers, were simply “shaking the very foundations of the state.” Virtually no Youth Network DJ cared about “standard broadcaster Mandarin”; they pioneered breaking the rules and, for the first time, liberated the radio’s “accent.” Before this, anyone who wanted to host a programme on a government-run station had one absolute minimum requirement: standard broadcaster Mandarin. Moreover, the Youth Network was also Taiwan’s first government-run station to open “live call-in” programmes.
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External Links
- Those Days on BCC’s Youth Network: What Is This If Not Happiness? (The News Lens)
- Tao Hsiao-ch’ing (Wikipedia)
- BCC Youth Network (YouTube online listening)