中央廣播電臺鹿港分臺

February 28th, 2024

Lukang Broadcasting Station (中央廣播電臺鹿港分臺) is located on the western side of urban Lukang is coastal Changhua. Completed in 1969, it was the largest and most powerful of the Central Broadcasting System’s branch stations, with a sprawling compound occupying approximately 7.3 hectares surrounded by guard posts and a moat. The southern half of the complex features transmission towers, a power plant, and the office of the broadcasting station itself. Immediately to the north is a gated dormitory area (鹿港央廣宿舍區) that once provided housing for 50 station staff and their families.

Gazing across the open lawn at the center of the dormitory area.

One of many old staff residences in the dormitory area. A radio transmitter is visible in the background.

Red doors are very characteristic of institutional housing in the KMT authoritarian era.

Late afternoon light filtering through the trees in the dormitory area.

During the Cold War it broadcast propaganda to mainland China around the clock. It was originally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Defense and the entire site was guarded by military police and off limits to the general public. In 2018, the station and its surrounding broadcasting facilities were officially registered as a cultural landscape, with portions now accessible to curious visitors.