WYFR

WYFR
City	Okeechobee, Florida
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Branding	Family Radio
First air date	October 15, 1927
Format	Gospel
Language(s)	English
Facility ID	20793
Transmitter coordinates	27º27'30"N, 80º56'W
Callsign meaning	We're Your Family Radio
Former callsigns	W2XAL (October 15, 1927-1929) W1XAL (1929-September 5, 1939) WRUL (September 5, 1939-June 1, 1966) WNYW (June 1, 1966-October 20, 1973)^[1]
Owner	Family Radio (Family Stations, Inc.)
Website	familyradio.com

WYFR was a shortwave radio station located in Okeechobee, Florida, United States. The station was owned by Family Stations, Inc., as part of the Family Radio network, and used to broadcast traditional Christian radio programming to international audiences. WYFR ceased all shortwave transmissions July 1, 2013. In December 2013, another shortwave broadcaster, WRMI of Miami, purchased the WYFR transmmission complex.

History

Main article: WNYW (shortwave)

WYFR was descended from W1XAL, an experimental shortwave station in that was granted its license in 1927 and broadcast from Boston until 1936 when the station moved to Scituate, Massachusetts. In 1939 the call letters were changed to WRUL and initially served as an educational station broadcasting university lectures. During World War II it became a propaganda station and was leased by the US government from 1942 until the end of the war. The station became WNYW in 1966.

In 1973, it was purchased by Family Stations, Inc, and began broadcasting as WYFR on October 20, 1973. The call sign stands for We're Your Family Radio. The station built new transmitters in Okeechobee, Florida in 1977, and closed the Scituate site in 1979. In mid-2013 Family Radio announced it would be permanently closing WYFR on June 30, 2013.^[2] The station did in fact close but was purchased by WRMI and brought back to the air in December 2013.

The interval signal of WYFR was a brass quintet playing the first eight bars of "To God Be the Glory".

Radio Taiwan International

At night after 5 p.m./6 p.m. until sometime the next morning Eastern Time Zone (depending on daylight saving time), WYFR broadcast Radio Taiwan International in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, and Spanish. As Radio Taiwan International leased broadcast time on WYFR from Family Radio, these broadcasts also ended on July 1, 2013.^[3] Family Radio, however, continues to host RTI's audio service to the Chinese community in the New York City area on a digital subchannel of Family Radio's television station, WNYJ-TV.

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Coordinates: 27°27′30″N 80°56′0″W / 27.45833°N 80.93333°W / 27.45833; -80.93333

Family Radio

AM Radio Stations	KARR^† KEAR KECR KFRN KKAA KQKD KYFR WCTF WCUE WFME WFSI WKDN

FM Radio Stations	KDFR KEBR KEFR KFNO KFRB KFRD KFRJ KFRP KFRS KFRW KFRY KHAP KJVH KPFR KPHF KPRA KQFE KTXB KUFR KXFR KYOR WBFR WBMD WEFR WFBF WFCH WFME-FM WFRC WFRH WFRJ WFRP WFRS WJCH WJFR WKDN-FM WMFL WMWK WOFR WOTL WUFR WWFR WYTN

Television stations	KZTN-LD WNYJ-TV

† Affiliate; not licensed to Family Stations, Inc.

Radio stations in the Vero Beach–Ft. Pierce–Stuart market

By AM frequency	1330 1370 1400 1450 1490 1570 1590

By Shortwave frequency	9.955

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 89.9 90.5 91.1 91.5 91.7 91.9 92.7 93.7 94.7 95.5 95.9 97.1 98.7 99.7 100.5 101.3 101.7 102.3* 103.7 104.5 106.3 107.9

By callsign	W203BE W300BQ WAVW WAYF WCNO WCZR WEFL WFLM WGYL WHLG WIRA WJFP WJKD WJNX WKGR WLDI WMBX WOSN WOKC WPHR-FM WPSL WQCS WQOL WREH WRMB WRMI WROK-FM WSCF-FM WSTU WTTB WUUB WWFR WZTA

Defunct radio stations	WYFR

Florida radio markets Daytona Beach Fort Myers–Naples–Marco Island Ft. Pierce–Stuart–Vero Beach Ft. Walton Beach Gainesville–Ocala Jacksonville Lakeland-Winter Haven Melbourne–Titusville–Cocoa Miami–Ft. Lauderdale Orlando Panama City Pensacola Sarasota–Bradenton Tallahassee Tampa–St.Petersburg–Clearwater West Palm Beach–Boca Raton Other Florida radio regions Florida Keys Lake City Sebring See also List of radio stations in Florida *WMBX is aimed for the West Palm Beach market, but broadcasts from Jensen Beach

Radio stations broadcasting in the Chinese language

Chinese-language radio in Canada

The following channels offer at least some programming in Chinese

Calgary	CHKF

Edmonton	CKER

Montreal	CFMB CINQ

Toronto	CHIN CHKT CIRV

Vancouver	CHKG CHMB CJVB

Radio in China

National	China Radio International China National Radio

Regional	Radio Beijing Corporation Fujian Radio Radio Guangdong Hubei Radio Hunan Broadcasting System Inner Mongolia Radio Heilongjiang Radio Lanzhou Radio Nanjing Radio Shaanxi Radio Shanghai Media Group Shenzhen Media Group Tianjin Radio Tibet Radio Urumqi Radio Xinjiang Radio Zhejiang Radio

Hong Kong	Radio Television Hong Kong Commercial Radio Hong Kong Metro Broadcast Corporation Limited

Macau	Teledifusão de Macau Radio Vilaverde Lda

China Radio Markets Beijing Fujian Guangdong Heilongjiang Shanghai Sichuan Tianjin Xinjiang Zhejiang See also List of radio stations in China

Chinese-language radio in Malaysia

RTM	Ai FM

Media Prima	One FM

Astro Radio	Melody FM My FM

KTS Group	TEA FM

Star Radio Group	988 FM

Chinese-language radio in Singapore

MediaCorp Radio	Y.E.S. 93.3FM Capital 95.8FM Love 97.2FM

Others	883JiaFM UFM 1003

Radio stations in Taiwan

Government	Radio Taiwan International National Education Radio Taipei Broadcasting Station Voice of Han Fuxing Radio Police Radio Station

Private	Broadcasting Corporation of China Hit FM ICRT KISS Radio PCJ Radio UFO Radio

Chinese-language radio in the United States

The following channels offer at least some programming in Chinese

Boston	WILD WROL

Florida	WYFR (Okeechobee)

Honolulu	KHCM

Houston	KCHN

Los Angeles	KAZN KWRM KMRB

New York	Chinese Radio New York Chung Wah Chinese Broadcasting Company WGBB WKDM WZRC Chinese American Voice

Philadelphia	WNWR

San Francisco	KEST KVTO KSQQ KSFN

Overseas	Radio Free Asia Voice of America

Shortwave radio stations located in the United States

Government stations	American Forces Network Radio Free Asia Radio Martí Voice of America WWV WWVH

Private stations	KIMF¹ KJES KNLS KSDA KTMI¹ KTWR KVOH WBCQ WEWN WHRI WINB WJHR WMLK WRMI WRNO WTWW WWCR WWRB

Defunct stations	KAIJ KFBS KGEI KYOI/KHBI KIMF KRHO KSAI KTBN KUSW KWHR WBOH WCSN WHRA WGTG WJIE WNRI WNYW WSHB WTJC WWBS WWFV WYFR

See also Shortwave broadcasting in the United States ¹ = CP granted, not yet on air

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