| WYFR | |
| City of license | Okeechobee, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Branding | Family Radio |
| First air date | October 20, 1973 |
| Format | Christian radio daytime/ Radio Taiwan International nighttime |
| Callsign meaning | We're Your Family Radio |
| Owner | Family Stations Inc. Harold Camping, President |
| Website | http://www.familyradio.com/ |
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.
It began broadcasting on October 20, 1973, after Family Stations acquired shortwave station WNYW located in Scituate, Massachusetts, and changed its call letters to WYFR, which stand for We're Your Family Radio. The station built new transmitters in Okeechobee in 1977, and closed the Scituate site in 1979.
Before Family Radio's acquisition, the former station WNYW, which stood for Radio New York Worldwide, broadcast American news programs to Europe and Africa; however, there were rumors that the station was being partially controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency to broadcast anti-communist propaganda. The current Fox TV station WNYW took these call letters over twelve years later, and has no affiliation with the shortwave station.
The interval signal of WYFR is a brass quintet playing the first eight bars of "To God Be the Glory".
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Radio Taiwan International
At night after 5 p.m./6 p.m. until sometime the next morning Eastern Time (depending on daylight saving time), this station broadcasts Radio Taiwan International in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, and Spanish.
Frequencies
This radio station broadcasts on the following frequencies to North America in English.
Eastern North America
- 0000-0045 on 6085 kHz (Winter), and 6985 kHz (Summer)
- 0000-0200 on 5950 kHz
- 0000-0445 on 9505 kHz
- 0100-0445 on 7455 kHz (Winter)
- 0400-0600 on 6915 kHz
- 0400-0700 on 9680 kHz
- 0700-1100 on 6915 kHz
- 0700-1245 on 5985 kHz (Summer)
- 0700-1345 on 7455 kHz (Winter)
- 1000-1245 on 5950 kHz (Summer), and 6890 kHz (Winter)
- 1300-1600 on 11855 kHz (Winter), and 11915 kHz (Summer)
- 1400-1500 on 13695 kHz
- 1400-1600 on 11830 kHz (Summer)
- 1400-1645 on 11565 kHz (Winter)
- 1600-1700 on 13695 kHz
- 1700-2000 on 13690 kHz (Summer), and 13695 kHz (Winter)
- 1800-2145 on 13615 kHz (Summer), and 17535 kHz (Winter)
- 2100-2145 on 13690 kHz (Summer)
- 2100-2200 on 5950 kHz (Winter)
- 2200-2400 on 5950 kHz
Western North America
- 0000-0200 on 15440 kHz
- 0200-0245 on 11835 kHz (Summer)
- 0200-0300 on 9525 kHz (Winter)
- 0400-0600 on 5950 kHz
- 0700-0800 on 9715 kHz
- 0800-0845 on 5950 kHz
- 0845-1145 on 5950 kHz (Winter)
- 0900-1145 on 9755 kHz (Summer)
- 1200-1345 on 11970 kHz (Winter)
- 1200-2145 on 17795 kHz (Summer)
- 1400-1645 on 17760 kHz (Winter)
- 1700-2145 on 17555 kHz (Winter)
- 2200-2400 on 15440 kHz
References
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Coordinates: 27°27′30″N 80°56′0″W / 27.45833°N 80.933333°W
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