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Radio Corporation of China (中國無線電公司) was the first
radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...
in
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.


History

It was founded in January 1923 by New Zealander Ernest George Hayward Osborn. Miller, Toby (2003). ''Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies''.
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. It was not a radio station run by Chinese citizens, and was shut down by the Northern warlords before 1927.


Influence

Radio stations became a new communication method, and the first Chinese-run radio station was established in
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. It went into operation in October 1926. Privately run stations were established in
Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
in March 1927. The technology became vital to the struggle between the
Communist Party of China The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...
and the Nationalist Party. The first major Chinese radio station established with a legit infrastructure was the Central Broadcasting System in 1928 by the Nationalist Party. The CPC would establish the Yan'an Xinhua Broadcasting Station in 1940.


See also

* History of Radio


References

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