Taipei Travel

The 37th International URTI Radio Grand Prix has announced its 2025 finalists, and Taipei Broadcasting Station (TBS) has earned a spot among the top 10 works worldwide. Its entry, SDGs Action Taker!, hosted by DJ Lydia Chen, highlights TBS’s strong international competitiveness in radio program production.

Founded in 1961, URTI (International Radio and Television Union) began holding the International Radio Grand Prix in 1989, offering a different competition theme each year. This year’s ten shortlisted programs come from Argentina, Belgium, Cameroon, France, Germany, Iran, and Taiwan.

The 2025 theme is “Radio and Climate Change.” SDGs Action Taker!, hosted by DJ Lydia Chen, has spent years cultivating sustainability awareness among young audiences. Being selected as one of only ten finalists worldwide marks a milestone that brings global attention to Taipei’s efforts toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

“SDGs Action Taker! has been a regular children’s program at TBS for three years,” said DJ Lydia, noting that the goal is to bring sustainability into children’s everyday lives. “A children’s program should be more than just a children’s program. We hope to accompany SDGs Action Takers of all ages, hear sustainability in daily life, love our planet, and learn English together, connecting with education internationally and inspiring young listeners to care for themselves, others, the environment, and the world.”

This year’s shortlisted episode invited two pairs of siblings from two families. Through their family travel experiences, the program guided listeners to explore different modes of transportation and introduced the concept of carbon footprints from the perspective of “Little SDGs Action Takers.” Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the episode incorporated climate change discussions and explored ways to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

“At TBS, we hope to use radio as a channel that keeps listeners moving forward with sustainability, allowing the SDGs to become part of daily life,” explained station director Shao-chien Hu. “Through this program, we want future adults to encounter sustainability messages outside formal education and, in turn, motivate fellow SDGs Action Takers to take action and contribute to sustainable development.”

SDGs Action Taker! airs every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. on TBS FM 93.1. Listeners can also tune in via the “T Radio” online radio platform (https://tradio.gov.taipei), where a wide range of TBS’s quality programming is available on demand.