GIO Orders Three TV Networks to Play One-Third Patriotic Songs

Source: 1974 Entry
From: Taiwan Popular Music Wiki
Date: July 22, 2015Author: Chiang Chia-jung

In July 1974, the GIO director stated in the annual policy report that in the first six months of that year, the GIO had banned over 530,000 publications — a historic high. That same year, the GIO also established the “Executive Yuan GIO Broadcasting and Television Song Guidance Group.” The GIO began organizing competitions to select high-quality songs and expanded its search for new patriotic compositions, commissioning the country’s three largest record companies — Haishan, Liko, and Koling — to produce and release them, with all contracted recording artists required to cooperate in performing patriotic songs. This wave of music-cleansing campaigns led by the GIO, particularly its policy of controlling television media, came at a time when Taiwan’s three television stations were already well established as the primary source of public entertainment. The GIO then established a “Television Industry Improvement Research Group” and formally required the three television stations to ensure that one-third of the songs performed on programs were “patriotic songs,” “art songs,” or “competition-selected songs.”

 

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External Links

• Notes on Banned Songs During Taiwan’s Martial Law Era (Homeland Moon)
• Broadcasting and Television Song Guidance Group (Wikipedia)
• A Complete Review: The History of Song Banning and Cleansing in Taiwan (Hsu Jui-kai — excerpted from Zao Yin Fan Tu)
• Patriotic Songs (YouTube Playlist)