Far East Broadcasting Company#AM/FM stations

FEBC was established on December 20, 1945, months after the end of World War II, using an initial budget of US§1,000 to establish a nonprofit Christian shortwave radio organization. In April 1946, negotiations to start a radio station in Shanghai (before the Communist regime took over three years later) started, but the Nationalists opposed the plan, under the grounds that FEBC was a foreign operation. Once the negotiations in Shanghai failed, at the end of 1946, Robert Bowman, founder of FEBC, moved to Manila at the end of the year for the same purpose: setting up the first FEBC station. The licenses were granted for medium and shortwave stations on September 4, 1946, with construction work starting in October and payments ending on November 30. The first test broadcasts were held in Manila on February 23, 1948, becoming regular a few months later, on June 4 at 6pm. The station used the KZAS callsign.{{cite web |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/History/Sky-Waves-Ledyard-1963.pdf |title=Sky Waves |date=1963 |accessdate=27 July 2023 |format=pdf}}

The company purchased KGEI in 1960, a station founded by GE in 1939. The station went off air in 1994 and had its equipment donated to another Christian missionary group for use in Liberia.{{cite web |last1=Bowman |first1=Jim |title=International Broadcast Station KGEI: 1939-1994 |url=http://www.theradiohistorian.org/kgei/kgei.html |website=The Radio Historian |publisher=John F. Schneider & Associates, LLC |access-date=23 February 2021}}

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The Philippines is where FEBC began its initial broadcasting.{{Cite web|url=http://thecorpusjuris.com/legislative/republic-acts/ra-no-596.php|title=R.A. No. 596: An Act Granting the Far East Broadcasting Co. (Philippines), Inc. a Temporary Permit to Construct, Maintain and Operate Non-Commercial Radio Broadcasting Stations in the Philippines|first=The Corpus|last=Juris|date=March 6, 1951|website=The Corpus Juris}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.congress.gov.ph/legisdocs/basic_16/HB05182.pdf |title=House Bill No. 5182 |access-date=October 26, 2019 |archive-date=October 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003035651/http://www.congress.gov.ph/legisdocs/basic_16/HB05182.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://nrb.org/news-room/articles/nrbt/febc-celebrates-70-years-gospel-broadcasting-philippines/|title=FEBC Celebrates 70 Years of Gospel Broadcasting in the Philippines}} FEBC transferred to Karuhatan Road, Karuhatan in 1948-2011 from Shanghai and finally to 46/F One Corporate Centre.{{Cite web|url=https://www.febc.org/|title=HOME}}

The 2022 FEBC Pioneers' Wall (Bantayog ng Kasaysayan) was unveiled at the former Christian Radio City Manila (CRCM) or FEBC compound in Valenzuela. The First Filipino leaders included Rev. Proceso Marcelo, Rev. Ferico Magbanua and Rev. Maximo Atienza.{{cite web | url=https://febcintl.org/photos/picture.php?/2151 | title=The Pioneer's Wall | FEBC International Archive }}

FEBC operates its shortwave broadcasts on SW 15580 in different languages, transmitting from its facilities in Bocaue, Bulacan and Iba, Zambales.

FEBC Philippines also owns Saved Radio, a Contemporary Christian-formatted music station currently available on internet radio. FEBC took over the ownership of Saved Radio from its original owner Becca Music in 2022, effectively shutting down its previous station Now XD.

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FEBC owns a number of stations in South Korea; the main station being HLKX in Seoul. Its station in Yeongdong (HLDY) was damaged by wildfires in April 2019. The station alone is used to disseminate religious programming to North Korea, where religious broadcasting is strictly forbidden. Only sheet music for hymns survived the blazes.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.cbn.com/news/world/massive-super-station-radio-signal-carrying-message-jesus-christ-blanket-north-korea|title=Massive 'Super Station' Radio Signal Carrying 'Message of Jesus Christ' to Blanket North Korea|date=May 9, 2019|website=CBN}}{{Cite press release|url=http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/8102715290.html|title=Wildfire Cripples FEBC Radio Station in South Korea - Standard Newswire|website=www.standardnewswire.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.febc.org/2019/04/23/wildfire-destroys-febc-station-in-korea/|title=Wildfire Destroys FEBC Station in Korea|date=April 23, 2019}}

Being a puritan Christian radio network gives the connotation that FEBC in South Korea has right-wing conservative tendencies. For example, in the Special Current Affairs Symposium broadcast on September 10, 2001, professor Kim Dong-gil and others took part and aired content critical of Kim Dae-jung's government of the time.{{cite news |title=극동방송, 시국좌담 '쇼' -"햇볕 정책 한마디로 쇼" |url=https://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/view/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0000053171 |work=Ohmynews |language=ko}} Also, former president Chun Doo-hwan, who led a dictatorship in the 1980s, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding in Korea, at a speech given on May 20, 2006. This also coincided with the anniversary of events on May 18, 1980; even after the event was held, posts appeared on FEBC Korea who demanded the removal of sponsorship contracts with the network.{{cite news |title=전두환씨 축사 강행에 후원중단 등 비판 거세 |url=https://www.kidok.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=26546 |work=kidok.com |language=ko}}

YASKI is the name for FEBC in Indonesia. It runs a number of stations under the Heartline FM brand.{{Cite web|url=https://www.h-c-r.org/heartline-fm|title=Heartline FM|website=Health Communication Resources}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.febc.org/febc-radio-available-on-80-stations-in-indonesia|title=FEBC Radio Available on 80 Stations in Indonesia - FEBC|date=October 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026035301/http://www.febc.org/febc-radio-available-on-80-stations-in-indonesia |archive-date=October 26, 2019 }}{{Cite web|url=https://cherish.id/cherish-indonesia-hadir-setiap-rabu-di-heartline-fm/|title=Cherish Indonesia Hadir Setiap Rabu di Heartline FM | Cherish Indonesia|first=Deny|last=Hen}}

FEBC Russia runs a number of stations under the Radio Teos brand.{{Cite web|url=https://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/Radio_Teos_Russian_radio_with_a_vision/32950/p1/|title=Radio Teos: Russian radio with a vision|website=www.crossrhythms.co.uk}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.eternitynews.com.au/world/from-russia-with-love/,%20https://www.eternitynews.com.au/world/from-russia-with-love/|title=From Russia with love - Eternity News|first=John|last=Sandeman |date=May 2, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.missionoftears.ca/radio-teos|title=Radio TEOS | Mission of Tears|website=www.missionoftears.ca}}

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FEBA Radio was established in 1959 in the United Kingdom.{{Cite web|url=https://www.christiantoday.com/article/give.a.radio.this.christmas/27202.htm|title=Give a radio this Christmas|date=December 7, 2010|website=www.christiantoday.com}}

The FEBC international broadcast station on Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands was established about 1981 and closed in 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.febc.org/give-to-missionary/bob-and-jan-springer/|title=Bob and Jan Springer}} The local radio station, KSAI 936 AM, was on air for 24 years until shutting down on April 30, 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/98a5b816-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e/|title=KSAI Radio bids Saipan goodbye|date=April 18, 2002|website=Saipan Tribune}} KSAI was initially established in Saipan by the United States Office of War Information (OWI) in June 1945.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100426215747/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol46no3/html/v46i3a07p.htm The Information War in the Pacific, 1945]{{Cite web|url=https://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/2011/11/voice-of-america-shipboard-relay_25.html|title=Shortwave Central: The Voice of America: Shipboard Relay Stations - Radio Ship Phoenix|date=November 25, 2011}}

There was an FEBC station in Okinawa starting in 1958. After the reversion agreement, the station became a commercial operation (Kyokuto Hoso Radio) as religious broadcasters were forbidden under the Law on Special Measures for the Reversion of Okinawa. Per a decision taken by the Diet of Japan in 1983, the station shut down in 1984."Broadcast" "Monthly Advertising" Vol. 28, No. 11, Dentsu, October 25, 1983, p.72, NDLJP: [https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2262018/38 2262018/38].

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