List of American shortwave broadcasters
Encyclopedia
Shortwave broadcasting in the United States is unique in that the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 allows private ownership of commercial and non-commercial shortwave
Shortwave
Shortwave radio refers to the upper MF and all of the HF portion of the radio spectrum, between 1,800–30,000 kHz. Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used...

 stations that are not relays of existing AM/MW or FM radio stations, as are common in Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

, Oceania
Oceania
Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

 and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

. In addition to private broadcasters, the United States also has government broadcasters and relay stations for international public broadcasters. Most privately owned shortwave stations have been religious broadcasters, either wholly owned and programmed by Roman Catholic and evangelical
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...

 Protestant charities or offering brokered programming
Brokered programming
Brokered programming is a form of broadcast content in which the show's producer pays a radio or television station for air time, rather than exchanging programming for pay or the opportunity to play spot commercials...

 consisting primarily of religious broadcasters. To better reach other continents of the world, several stations are located in far-flung US territories. Shortwave stations in the USA are not permitted to operate exclusively for a domestic audience; they are subject to antenna
Antenna (radio)
An antenna is an electrical device which converts electric currents into radio waves, and vice versa. It is usually used with a radio transmitter or radio receiver...

 and power requirements to reach an international audience
International broadcasting
International broadcasting is broadcasting that is deliberately aimed at a foreign, rather than a domestic, audience. It usually is broadcast by means of longwave, mediumwave, or shortwave radio, but in recent years has also used direct satellite broadcasting and the Internet as means of reaching...

.

Non-religious private broadcasters

While most private shortwave broadcasters in the United States are operated by religious groups or carry mostly religious programming, there have also been attempts at starting non-religious shortwave stations.

Two such stations were WRNO
WRNO (shortwave)
WRNO is a commercial shortwave radio station which began international broadcasting on 18 February 1982 and continued broadcasting through the early 1990s from Metairie, Louisiana...

 in New Orleans and KUSW
KUSW
KUSW is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Flora Vista, New Mexico, USA. KUSW is owned by KUTE, Inc., and serves the Four Corners area....

 in Salt Lake City, both of them with a rock and roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

 music format. Both stations were well received by shortwave listeners, but could not make the format successful in the long run. KUSW was eventually sold to the Trinity Broadcasting Network
Trinity Broadcasting Network
The Trinity Broadcasting Network is a major American Christian television network. TBN is based in Costa Mesa, California, with auxiliary studio facilities in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Gadsden, Alabama; Decatur, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Orlando, Florida; and New...

 and converted into religious broadcaster KTBN
KTBN (shortwave)
KTBN was the shortwave radio outlet of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a large religious international broadcaster...

. WRNO kept its rock & roll format going for most of the 1980s but eventually switched formats to selling brokered airtime to political and religious broadcasts, suffered a damaged transmitter, and eventually ceased broadcasting following the death of its owner, Joe Costello. WRNO was acquired by Dr. Robert Mawire and Good News World Outreach in 2001. After installing a new transmitter, the station was within just days of returning to the air when Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, 2005. The new transmitter was spared from flood waters, but the antenna was severely damaged by high winds. WRNO finally returned to broadcasting in 2009, operating 4 hours per day. On March 13, 2010, WRNO began transmitting a weekly religious broadcast in Arabic for a portion of its broadcast schedule.

A notable exception is WBCQ, a non-religious private station operated by Allan Weiner
Allan Weiner
Allan H. Weiner is a long-time pirate radio operator and activist. Weiner is currently the owner/operator of WBCQ, a licensed shortwave station broadcasting from Monticello, Maine, and also owns AM radio station WXME and FM radio station WBCQ-FM in Monticello.- The Falling Star Radio Network...

 in Maine. WBCQ has been a success by brokering much of their airtime to religious programs like Brother Stair
Brother Stair
Ralph Gordon Stair , also known as Brother R. G. Stair, or simply Brother Stair, is an American radio preacher based in Walterboro, South Carolina.-Early life:Stair was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania...

, while also carrying some music and entertainment programs. Allan Weiner Worldwide, which can be heard in most of North America, airs Fridays from 8:00 to 9:00 PM Eastern time and 7:00 to 8:00 PM central time on 7490 kHz.

Pirate radio

Numerous pirate radio
Pirate radio
Pirate radio is illegal or unregulated radio transmission. The term is most commonly used to describe illegal broadcasting for entertainment or political purposes, but is also sometimes used for illegal two-way radio operation...

 stations have operated sporadically in or just outside the shortwave broadcast bands. Most are operated by hobbyists for the amusement of DX'ers with broadcasts typically only a few hours in length.

Few American pirates are political or controversial in their programming. Pirates have tended to cluster in unofficial "pirate bands" based on the current schedules of licensed shortwave stations and the retuning of amateur radio
Amateur radio
Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...

 transmitters to operate outside the "ham" radio bands.

Most pirate activity takes place on weekends or holidays, Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...

 and April Fool's Day being traditional favorites of pirates. Most broadcasts are only a few minutes to a few hours at a time. One notable exception was Radio Newyork International
Radio Newyork International
Radio Newyork International was the name of a pirate radio station which broadcast from a ship anchored in international waters off Jones Beach, New York, USA in 1987 and 1988...

, a short-lived attempt to establish a permanent broadcasting station operating from international waters
International waters
The terms international waters or trans-boundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems , and wetlands.Oceans,...

.

Some European nations have recently begun allowing privately owned shortwave stations on a far more limited scale.

Preachers/Religious broadcasters

  • Tony Alamo
    Tony Alamo
    Tony Alamo is an American religious leader and convicted child sex offender. He and his late wife Susan are best known as the founders of an organization currently known as Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. The organization is based in and around Fouke and Alma, Arkansas, United States, and has...

  • Kirby Anderson
  • Mother Angelica
    Mother Angelica
    Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA is an American Roman Catholic nun who founded the Eternal Word Television Network. In 1944 she entered the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a Franciscan religious order for women, as a postulant, and a year later she was admitted to the order as a...

  • Harold Camping
    Harold Camping
    Harold Egbert Camping is an American Christian radio broadcaster. He served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that broadcasts to more than 150 markets in the United States, since 1958. In 2011 he retired from active broadcasting following a stroke, but still...

  • E. C. Fulcher
  • Texe Marrs
    Texe Marrs
    Texe W. Marrs is an American conspiracy theorist, who runs a Christian ministry called Living Truth Ministries, based in Austin, Texas.He was previously an officer in the United States Air Force and a faculty member at the University of Texas....

  • Robert Mawire
    Robert Mawire
    Dr. Robert Mawire is a Christian minister, governmental leader, and businessman.-External links:*...

  • Dr. Gene Scott (deceased)
  • Melissa Scott
    Melissa Scott (pastor)
    Melissa Scott is an American pastor. She is the widow of Eugene Scott, an ordained minister and religious broadcaster. Since her husband's death in 2005, she has led the congregations at churches in Los Angeles and Glendale, California as the executive pastor.-Career:In 1998, Dr. Gene Scott...

     (replaced Dr. Gene Scott)
  • Brother Stair
    Brother Stair
    Ralph Gordon Stair , also known as Brother R. G. Stair, or simply Brother Stair, is an American radio preacher based in Walterboro, South Carolina.-Early life:Stair was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania...

  • Peter J. Peters
    LaPorte Church of Christ
    LaPorte Church of Christ is an independent church in Laporte, Colorado, led until 2011 by Pastor Peter J. Peters, who proclaimed that Europeans comprise the ten lost tribes of Israel and that contemporary Jews are satanic impostors and the descendants of the Biblical Esau -- the brother and...


White Supremacists

  • William Luther Pierce
    William Luther Pierce
    William Luther Pierce III was the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and one of the most important ideologists of the white nationalist movement. Pierce originally worked as an assistant professor of physics at Oregon State University, before he became involved in...

     (deceased)
  • Kevin Alfred Strom
    Kevin Alfred Strom
    Kevin Alfred Strom is the former Managing Director of National Vanguard. Strom resigned from National Vanguard in July 2006...

  • Hal Turner
    Hal Turner
    Harold Charles "Hal" Turner is an American white nationalist, Holocaust denier and blogger from North Bergen, New Jersey. In August 2010, he was convicted for making threats against three federal judges with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

     (FBI plant)
  • Ernst Zündel
    Ernst Zündel
    Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...


Commentators

  • Willis Conover
    Willis Conover
    Willis Clark Conover, Jr. was a jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for over forty years. He produced jazz concerts at the White House, the Newport Jazz Festival, and for movies and television. By arranging concerts where people of all races were welcome, he is credited with...

     (deceased)
  • William Cooper (deceased)
  • Chuck Harder
    Chuck Harder
    Chuck Harder was a former radio disk jockey turned talk show host in White Springs, Florida, USA. He is originally from Elgin, Illinois. He is no longer on the air.-Early radio career:...

  • Glenn Hauser
    Glenn Hauser
    Glenn Hauser is an internationally-known DXer and radio host from Enid, Oklahoma, United States. He produces and narrates the weekly 30-minute radio show "World Of Radio", heard on various non-commercial AM and FM radio stations throughout the U.S., plus worldwide on shortwave radio.Glenn Hauser...

     – World Of Radio
  • Marie Lamb – DXing With Cumbre
  • Keith Perron
    Keith Perron
    Keith Perron is a Canadian expatriate international broadcaster currently based in Taiwan.Born and raised in Montreal, Perron entered the broadcasting profession at the age of 17 with local station CKUT...

     - The Happy Station Show
  • Alex Jones
    Alex Jones (radio)
    Alexander Emerick "Alex" Jones is an American talk radio host, actor and filmmaker. His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show, based in Austin, Texas, airs via the Genesis Communication Network over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet...

  • Rush Limbaugh
    Rush Limbaugh
    Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in American conservatism. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United...

     – his show was carried on WRNO-Worldwide in the 1990s
  • Dr Stan Monteith
  • Jay Smilkstein
  • Allan Weiner
    Allan Weiner
    Allan H. Weiner is a long-time pirate radio operator and activist. Weiner is currently the owner/operator of WBCQ, a licensed shortwave station broadcasting from Monticello, Maine, and also owns AM radio station WXME and FM radio station WBCQ-FM in Monticello.- The Falling Star Radio Network...

  • Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey Aurandt , better known as Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. His listening audience was estimated, at...

     (deceased) – Paul Harvey News & Commentary/Rest Of The Story was carried on AFRTS Radio
  • Jack Anderson (deceased) – was heard on AFRTS Radio in the 1980s
  • Mort Crim
    Mort Crim
    Mort Crim is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim was born . Crim retired from anchoring TV newscasts at WDIV-TV Detroit in 1996. He also anchored at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WBBM-TV in Chicago. Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News...

  • John Stadtmiller on WWCR
    WWCR
    WWCR is a shortwave radio station located in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. WWCR uses four 100 kW transmitters which broadcast on 14 different frequencies....

     - notorious for setting up Mark Koernke
    Mark Koernke
    Mark Gregory Koernke , known as "Mark from Michigan," is a prominent militia activist and shortwave radio broadcaster. As an early proponent of the black helicopters, he was largely responsible for popularizing it in appearances on Tom Valentine's radio show and in public speeches which were widely...

  • John from Staten Island & Frank from Queens - hosting "The Right Perspective" on WWCR
    WWCR
    WWCR is a shortwave radio station located in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. WWCR uses four 100 kW transmitters which broadcast on 14 different frequencies....


Government broadcasters (USA)

  • Voice of America
    Voice of America
    Voice of America is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors . VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio...

  • WWV/WWVH
    WWVH
    WWVH is the callsign of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's shortwave radio time signal station in Kekaha, on the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii....

  • Armed Forces Radio Network
  • Radio Marti
    Radio Martí
    Radio y Televisión Martí is a radio and television broadcaster based in Miami, Florida, financed by the United States government , which transmits Spanish radio broadcasts to Cuba...


Current privately owned US broadcasters

  • KFBS – Far East Broadcasting Company
    Far East Broadcasting Company
    Far East Broadcasting CompanyFounded:1945 First broadcast:June 4, 1948Daily broadcasts:650+ hoursLanguages:149Webcasts:...

     – Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
  • KHBN – High Adventure Ministries Piti, Guam
    Piti, Guam
    Piti is a village located on the western shore of Guam. It contains the commercial port of Guam at Apra Harbor as well as several of the island’s largest power plants.- Education :Guam Public School System serves the island....

  • KJES – "The Lord's Station" – Vado, New Mexico
    Vado, New Mexico
    Vado is a census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 3,003 at the 2000 census. As of 5 May 2010, its lone ZIP code is 88072, its telephone Area Code is 575, and it is part of the Las Cruces Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Vado is located at ...

  • KNLS
    KNLS
    KNLS is an international shortwave radio station in Anchor Point, Alaska. The station is operated by World Christian Broadcasting, a non-profit company based in the United States of America...

     – Anchor Point, Alaska
    Anchor Point, Alaska
    Anchor Point is a census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2000 census the population was 1,845. Anchor Point is the westernmost point in the North American highway system.-History:...

  • KSDA
    KSDA
    KSDA-FM is the call sign for the radio station JOY FM broadcast at 91.9 FM from Agana Heights, Guam.KSDA began as "Adventist World Radio-Asia" in 1987 and continues to broadcast in shortwave from Agat, Guam to various countries in Asia. In 1990, AWR launched a local FM station at 91.9 MHz...

     – Adventist World Radio
    Seventh-day Adventist Church
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

     – Agat, Guam
    Agat, Guam
    Agat is a village on the island of Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located south of Apra Harbor on the island's western shore. The village's population has decreased since the island's 2000 census....

  • KTWR – Trans World Radio
    Trans World Radio
    Trans World Radio is a multinational Christian evangelistic broadcaster. TWR broadcasts from 14 countries using mediumwave or high-powered AM transmitters, shortwave as well as through local radio stations, cable, satellite, and the Internet to reach millions of people in 160 nations in their own...

     – Agana, Guam
  • KVOH
    KVOH
    KVOH is a shortwave radio station broadcasting from Rancho Simi, California, United States. KVOH is a Christian radio station that sells airtime to businesses and organizations. According to its station record from the Federal Communications Commission, KVOH's broadcast target zones are the...

     – "Voice of Hope" – Rancho Simi, California
  • KWHR – "World Harvest Radio" – Naalehu, Hawaii
  • WBCQ – "The Planet" – Monticello, Maine
    Monticello, Maine
    Monticello is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States on the northern branch of the Meduxnekeag River. The population was 790 at the 2000 census...

  • WBOH – Fundamental Broadcasting Network – Newport, North Carolina
    Newport, North Carolina
    Newport is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,349 at the 2000 census.-History:Newport was officially chartered in 1866. Although the crossroads community on the Newport River was known by that name decades earlier, the area was also known as Bell's Corner...

  • WEWN
    WEWN
    WEWN is the shortwave radio outlet of the Eternal Word Television Network, a large Catholic international broadcaster. The station broadcasts from the city of Irondale, Alabama, on the outskirts of Birmingham with a high transmitter power of 500 kilowatts...

     – "Eternal Word Network" – Irondale, Alabama
    Irondale, Alabama
    Irondale is a city adjacent to Birmingham, Alabama, United States northeast from Homewood and Mountain Brook. At the 2010 census the population was 12,349. The book Fried Green Tomatoes, by Irondale native Fannie Flagg, is loosely based around the town and the landmark Irondale Cafe, known as The...

  • WHRA – "World Harvest Radio" – Greenbush, Maine
    Greenbush, Maine
    Greenbush is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States on the Penobscot River. The population was 1,421 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

  • WHRI – "World Harvest Radio" – Furman, South Carolina
    Furman, South Carolina
    Furman is a town in Hampton County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 286 at the 2000 census. Not to be confused with Furman University, from which it is quite distant.-Geography:Furman is located at ....

  • WINB – "World International Broadcasting" – Red Lion, Pennsylvania
  • WJIE – Evangel World Prayer Center – Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

  • WMLK
    WMLK
    WMLK is a radio station in Bethel, Pennsylvania owned by the Assemblies of Yahweh. WMLK takes its name from MLK, representing three of the four consonants of the Hebrew word "malakh" meaning a “messenger” or angel.-History:...

     – Assemblies of Yahweh
    Assemblies of Yahweh
    The Assemblies of Yahweh is a nonprofit religious organization with its international headquarters in Bethel, Pennsylvania. The organization developed independently out of a radio ministry begun by Elder Jacob O. Meyer in 1966...

     – Bethel, Pennsylvania
    Bethel, Berks County, Pennsylvania
    Bethel is an unincorporated community in Bethel Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. With a zip code of 19507, it is located at the junction of Interstate 78/U.S. Route 22 and Pennsylvania Route 501. It is in the Susquehanna watershed and drained southward into the Little Swatara...

  • WRMI
    WRMI
    WRMI is a shortwave radio station broadcasting from Miami, Florida, United States. WRMI is a commercial radio station that sells airtime to businesses and organizations. According to its station record from the Federal Communications Commission, WRMI's broadcast target zones are the Caribbean,...

     – "Radio Miami International" – Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida
    Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...

  • WRNO
    WRNO (shortwave)
    WRNO is a commercial shortwave radio station which began international broadcasting on 18 February 1982 and continued broadcasting through the early 1990s from Metairie, Louisiana...

     – "WRNOradio.com" – New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans, Louisiana
    New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...

  • WTJC – Fundamental Broadcasting Network – Newport, North Carolina
    Newport, North Carolina
    Newport is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,349 at the 2000 census.-History:Newport was officially chartered in 1866. Although the crossroads community on the Newport River was known by that name decades earlier, the area was also known as Bell's Corner...

  • WTWW
    WTWW
    WTWW is a shortwave station licensed to Lebanon, Tennessee.WTWW, according to their website, stands for "We Transmit World Wide".WTWW, according to the FCC, was originally licensed a construction permit as WBWW on June 30, 2009. Testing began in January 2010 and ending mid-February 2010...

     - "We Transmit World Wide" - Lebanon, Tennessee
    Lebanon, Tennessee
    Lebanon is a city in Wilson County, Tennessee, in the United States. The population was 20,235 at the 2000 census. It serves as the county seat of Wilson County. Lebanon is located in middle Tennessee, approximately 25 miles east of downtown Nashville. Local residents have also called it...

  • WWCR
    WWCR
    WWCR is a shortwave radio station located in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. WWCR uses four 100 kW transmitters which broadcast on 14 different frequencies....

     – "Worldwide Christian Radio" – Nashville, Tennessee
    Nashville, Tennessee
    Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

  • WWRB
    WWRB
    WWRB is a shortwave international broadcasting station known as both "World Wide Religious Broadcasting" and "World Wide Radio Broadcasting" broadcasting from Morrison, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Airline Transport Communications Incorporated. The station features primarily Christian...

     – Manchester, Tennessee
    Manchester, Tennessee
    Manchester is a city in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 10,102 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Coffee County...

     (successor to WGTG and WWFV)
  • WYFR
    WYFR
    WYFR is a shortwave radio station located in Okeechobee, Florida, United States. The station is owned by Family Stations, Inc., as part of the Family Radio network, and broadcasts traditional Christian radio programming to international audiences....

     – "Family Radio
    Family Radio
    Family Radio, also known by its licensee name Family Stations Inc., is a Christian radio network based in Oakland, California, USA, founded by Lloyd Lindquist, Richard H. Palmquist and Harold Camping...

    " – Okeechobee, Florida
    Okeechobee, Florida
    Okeechobee is a city in Okeechobee County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,376 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 5,784. It is the county seat of Okeechobee County. The Speckled Perch Festival is held annually in honor of the most...


Defunct broadcasters

  • KGEI – San Francisco, California (studios and transmitter in Redwood City, California
    Redwood City, California
    Redwood City is a California charter city located on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California, approximately 27 miles south of San Francisco, and 24 miles north of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans from its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people, to its tradition as a port for...

    )
  • KHBN – Palau
    Palau
    Palau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines and south of Tokyo. In 1978, after three decades as being part of the United Nations trusteeship, Palau chose independence instead of becoming part of the Federated States of Micronesia, a...

     (now T8BZ)
  • KIMF – Pinon, New Mexico
    Piñon, New Mexico
    Piñon is an unincorporated ranching community in Otero County in southern New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. The town is in the pinon-juniper shrublands habitat with an altitude of 6,060 feet. It is located at the intersection of NM Route 24 and NM Route 506. The postoffice in Piñon...

     (licensed, but never built)
  • KTBN
    KTBN (shortwave)
    KTBN was the shortwave radio outlet of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a large religious international broadcaster...

     – Trinity Broadcasting Network
    Trinity Broadcasting Network
    The Trinity Broadcasting Network is a major American Christian television network. TBN is based in Costa Mesa, California, with auxiliary studio facilities in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Gadsden, Alabama; Decatur, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Orlando, Florida; and New...

     – Salt Lake City, Utah
    Salt Lake City, Utah
    Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

  • KUSW
    KUSW
    KUSW is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Flora Vista, New Mexico, USA. KUSW is owned by KUTE, Inc., and serves the Four Corners area....

     – "Superpower" – Salt Lake City, Utah
    Salt Lake City, Utah
    Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

     (station sold, and became KTBN
    KTBN (shortwave)
    KTBN was the shortwave radio outlet of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a large religious international broadcaster...

    )
  • KYOI – Saipan
    Saipan
    Saipan is the largest island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , a chain of 15 tropical islands belonging to the Marianas archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean with a total area of . The 2000 census population was 62,392...

     (1982-1989)
  • WGTG – McCaysville, Georgia
    McCaysville, Georgia
    McCaysville is a city in Fannin County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,071 at the 2000 census.-Geography:McCaysville is located at...

  • WNRI
    WNRI
    WNRI is a radio station located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The station has a news & talk radio format and has been owned by Bouchard Broadcasting Inc. since 2004...

    : Bound Brook, New Jersey
    Bound Brook, New Jersey
    Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. At the United States 2010 Census, the population was 10,402.Bound Brook was originally incorporated as a town by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 24, 1869, within portions of Bridgewater Township...

     owned by NBC
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

  • WNYW
    WNYW (shortwave)
    WNYW was a shortwave radio station that broadcasted from Scituate, Massachusetts, in the United States. On October 20, 1973, Family Stations, Inc., acquired the station to be part of its Family Radio network and changed the call letters to WYFR. Family Stations eventually progressively moved the...

     – "Radio New York Worldwide" – Scituate, Massachusetts
    Scituate, Massachusetts
    Scituate is a seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on the South Shore, midway between Boston and Plymouth. The population was 18,133 at the 2010 census....

  • WSHB – Furman, South Carolina
    Furman, South Carolina
    Furman is a town in Hampton County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 286 at the 2000 census. Not to be confused with Furman University, from which it is quite distant.-Geography:Furman is located at ....

  • WWBS – Macon, Georgia
    Macon, Georgia
    Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...

  • Radio Newyork International
    Radio Newyork International
    Radio Newyork International was the name of a pirate radio station which broadcast from a ship anchored in international waters off Jones Beach, New York, USA in 1987 and 1988...

     – Pirate radio
    Pirate radio
    Pirate radio is illegal or unregulated radio transmission. The term is most commonly used to describe illegal broadcasting for entertainment or political purposes, but is also sometimes used for illegal two-way radio operation...

     station operating from international waters
    International waters
    The terms international waters or trans-boundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems , and wetlands.Oceans,...

  • KAIJ Dallas, Texas

New stations

  • WTWW
    WTWW
    WTWW is a shortwave station licensed to Lebanon, Tennessee.WTWW, according to their website, stands for "We Transmit World Wide".WTWW, according to the FCC, was originally licensed a construction permit as WBWW on June 30, 2009. Testing began in January 2010 and ending mid-February 2010...

     – Lebanon, Tennessee
    Lebanon, Tennessee
    Lebanon is a city in Wilson County, Tennessee, in the United States. The population was 20,235 at the 2000 census. It serves as the county seat of Wilson County. Lebanon is located in middle Tennessee, approximately 25 miles east of downtown Nashville. Local residents have also called it...

     – licensed June 30, 2009, transmitter testing occurred in January 2010
  • KTMI – Lebanon, Oregon
    Lebanon, Oregon
    Lebanon is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States. Lebanon is located in northwest Oregon, southeast of Salem. The population was 12,950 at the 2000 census and the 2008 census data shows the population at 15,397.-Geography:...

     – not yet on the air, construction permit

External links

  • Official listing of active stations at the FCC.gov
    Federal Communications Commission
    The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

     website. CAUTION: This FCC information is often out of date, and does not include domestic IBB relay stations.
  • shortwavesites - The Shortwave Transmitter Site Archive – The shortwave transmitter site archive of current and historical shortwave transmitter site information, includes data on North American shortwave broadcasters' transmitter sites both past and present
  • NASWA WWW Shortwave Listening Guide
  • Glenn Hauser
    Glenn Hauser
    Glenn Hauser is an internationally-known DXer and radio host from Enid, Oklahoma, United States. He produces and narrates the weekly 30-minute radio show "World Of Radio", heard on various non-commercial AM and FM radio stations throughout the U.S., plus worldwide on shortwave radio.Glenn Hauser...

    's World of Radio website
  • SWDXER ¨The SWDXER¨ – with general SWL information and radio antenna tips
  • Radio World special report on American shortwave stations
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