According to statistics in the Radio & TV Yearbook, radio ownership in Taiwan increased seven-fold in the twenty years to 1988, from 1.42 million to some 10 million sets--an average of one radio for every two people.
依廣播電視年鑑中的記載，民國五十七年至七十七年底，廿年間國內收音機數量成長了七倍，由一百四十二萬餘架，到突破一千萬架。平均每兩人就有一架。