The Taiwan Broadcasting Company

Taiwan's first radio broadcasts started in 1925, when the Government General of Taiwan celebrated its 30 year anniversary by broadcasting onsite for 10 days. Radio broadcasting started its testing phase when the Communications Bureau established the Broadcast Department in 1928. 660,000 Yuan was allotted to build the Taipei Broadcasting Bureau, which was completed at the end of 1930. The station officially went on the air in January of the following year, with the Communications Bureau continuing to establish broadcast departments and bureaus across the island. At the beginning, radio programs mainly catered to the Japanese, and the Taipei Broadcasting Bureau raised revenue by collecting fees from radio owners. The broadcasts covered basic content such as weather, news, and daily commodity prices, but also featured programs on education and entertainment. Broadcast were divided into three times: from 8am to 11am, 2pm to 5pm, and 6pm-11pm. When the war in the Pacific broke out, broadcasts were added in Hokkien, English, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese and Vietnamese, extending to China and Southeast Asia.

After the war, the Nationalist Party's Central Broadcasting Office changed the station's name to the Taiwan Broadcasting Company, which assumed control of all radio stations across the island. The station's broadcast content was fairly diverse, and included programs aimed at helping the Taiwanese learn Mandarin Chinese while providing an important conduit for officials to make government decrees. The station played an important role for both the government and Taiwanese, who both used the radio to disseminate information on the 2-28 Incident.