Radioactive Taiwan - Chapter 3 - The Quick and the Talented

In 1983, Craig Quick was hired as general manager, and he brought a vision of a full-on thriving American radio station to Taiwan, that changed its local listeners' lives. Every employee bought in to Craig's radical radio vision. For a student, listening to ICRT was a must-do thing. ICRT allowed students to have a different favorite song from their parents and to start showing and sharing their own tastes.

The result is thousands of Taiwanese were able to immigrate to English-speaking countries because ICRT gave them functional, useful, English.

Working at ICRT was a beautiful cross-cultural experience for the non-Taiwanese employees, too, who hailed from all over the world. We share the “Five No's” for Taiwanese consumers, that ICRT helped Western businesses overcome. One by one, ICRT played a role in breaking down these “No's”, and Taiwan became a huge consumer of American goods.

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An audio story of how International Community Radio Taipei covered sensitive political topics at a time when Taiwan was still under martial law. ICRT gave a voice to the opposition party and Dangwai movement, ideas that were banned or poorly covered by most of the pro-government media at the time.

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