Underground Radio Stations Proliferate
地下電台數量激增
Source: Taiwan’s Underground Radio Stations
From: Wikipedia
Date: Last revised February 26, 2017. Author: Collaborative authors
Taiwan’s underground radio stations emerged in the 1990s. In a media environment where the Chinese Nationalist Party held an absolute dominant position, the Democratic Progressive Party and other opposition parties established clandestine stations to broadcast their political views and rally voter support during elections. From the 1990s onward, underground radio stations proliferated, with programming largely focused on political commentary. After 2000, the government permitted applications for low-power radio station licences, and some underground stations were thereby legalised. To increase revenue, beyond political commentary programmes, most underground stations also sold products — particularly medicines — but as some products were unverified, this contributed to a proliferation of illegal pharmaceuticals.
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- Why Are Taiwan’s Underground Radio Stations Repeatedly Banned but Never Eliminated? (People’s Daily Online)
- The Modern Significance of Underground Radio — From the Raiding of Ocean Voice (Communication Students Alliance)
- The Crackdown on Underground Radio Is a Political Event (NOWnews)
- Taiwan’s First Radio Station Begins Broadcasting (PTS News Network)
- “Citizens’ Access” or “Anarchy”? Multiple Perspectives on Underground Radio (Foundation for Excellence in Journalism)