History
In 1969, in response to local public opinion that a local cultural broadcasting station should be established, the May 16 Scholarship Association took the lead and established Chungcheong Broadcasting Co., Ltd. on 8 October 1970, and opened on 23 October the same year (radio station HLAX). In October 1971, the name was changed to Cheongju Munhwa Broadcasting. Until the 1980 Framework Act on Media, the station was entirely private. In 2010, Kim Jae-cheol, who was the president of Cheongju MBC, was appointed the president of the parent station in Seoul. On 24 August 2016, it was announced that the Cheongju and Chungju branches would merge to form a larger regional branch, MBC Chungbuk, effective 1 October. The merger was formally approved by the regulatory body. New facilities in Cheongju opened on 30 September 2016, ahead of the start of the new branch. MBC Chungbuk announced the termination of its AM radio station in Cheongju (1332 kHz) on 1 April 2020, with the date set for 19 November 2021. ==References==