After the Broadcasting
Stations were established in Taipei and Tainan, the Taichung
Broadcasting Station was inaugurated on May 11, 1935 and
subsequently become the third important historic broadcasting
station building. Following the policies of Report Education
and Entertainment, these three Broadcasting Stations made
public broadcast. After Taiwan's restoration in 1945, the
Taichung Broadcasting Station was taken over by Kuomintang
Government Since then, it has become the most important
Broadcasting Station in central Taiwan until the Taichung BCC
moved away in 1998.
The Taichung Broadcasting Station is a modern architecture with
functional-guided design. The rooms with similar function were
centralized, and connected with central corridor. In terms of the
style of architecture, the Taichung Broadcasting Station is the
transition symbol of Taiwan's architecture from traditional to
modernism. It combines the functional spatial arrangement commonly
seen in modernist architecture with decorative featured as facade
ornamentation after Romanesque and Gothic architecture.
The Taichung Broadcasting
Station was reproduced as a historical architecture by
Taichung City Cultural Affairs Bureau on July 1, 2002. The
cost of restoration and reconstruction was supported by the
Council for Cultural Affairs of the Executive Yuan. now, The
Taichung Broadcasting Station has the only address name in the
whole Taiwan, "DianTai St. No.1", "DianTai" meaning
broadcasting station, You can visit this beautiful building
have historical significance and there are some old broadcast
apparatus for displayed inside.
Open Hours : Tuesdays to Sundays 10:00 ~ 18:00