The Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC), the pioneer of the Republic of China’s broadcasting industry, was founded in Nanking in 1928 as the Central Broadcasting System and reorganized under its present name in 1947. In 1949, BCC moved to Taiwan with the government of the Republic of China (ROC).
In 1949, BCC also established a foothold in international radio with its broadcast of the Voice of Free China over short wave channels. Leading the way for Taiwan's radio industry, BCC set up the island's first FM station in 1968. The BCC headquarters were moved from Taipei New Park to Jen-ai Road in 1973. The Voice of Asia was launched in 1979 to offer service to people in Asia. BCC was the first to broadcast in stereo over AM channels in 1987. In 1994, BCC's Music Network employed the most advanced computerized broadcasting system in all of Asia. In 1997 BCC’s international short-wave program was handed over to the state-funded Central Broadcasting System. Since 1998, all BCC programs have been broadcast island-wide via satellite and microwave transmission. In addition to the radio on line broadcast through BCC website, BCC also broadcasts live via satellite to several Chinese community radio stations in North America. BCC’s News and Pop programs are also available for the listeners of the southeast coastal area of Mainland China.
The BCC headquarters were moved to its present location on Song Jiang Road in Taipei in January 2000, and at the same year, BCC established the first digital audio broadcasting (DAB) experimental radio station in Taiwan. From 2001, BCC accomplished the DAB Single Frequency Network (SFN) coverage in the western and northeastern coastal area of Taiwan.
From the year 2005, the BCC "family" of stations is divided into 5 island-wide networks and one local channel. The 3 FM networks are the Pop Network, Music Network and Formosa Network. The 3 AM are the News Network, Country Network and Taipei AM747 Hakka Channel.
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