Far East Broadcasting Company

"FEBC" redirects here. For the Christian organization, see The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada.

Far East Broadcasting Company

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Company type	non-profit
Industry	Broadcast
Founded	December 20, 1945
Founder	John C. Broger Robert H. Bowman William J. Roberts
Headquarters	La Mirada, California, United States
Website	FEBC International FEBC USA FEBA UK FEBC Australia FEBC New Zealand FEBC Canada FEBC Hong Kong FEBC Taiwan FEBC Cambodia FEBC YASKI Indonesia FEBC Heartline FM FEBC Korea FEBC Japan FEBC Russia FEBA South Africa FEBC Radio Teos FEBC Thailand FEBC Philippines

Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) is an international Christian radio network. From 1960 to 1994, FEBC owned and operated shortwave radio station KGEI in San Francisco, California.

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Karuhatan Pioneer's Wall (Bantayog ng Kasaysayan)

History

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.

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.

Philippines

Far East Broadcasting Company, Philippines (FEBC Philippines)

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Industry	Broadcast
Founded	July 27, 1948
Headquarters	Pasig, Philippines
Key people	Luis Miguel Castillo (President)

The Philippines is where FEBC began its initial broadcasting. FEBC transferred to Karuhatan Road, Karuhatan in 1948-2011 from Shanghai and finally to 46/F One Corporate Centre.

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.

AM/FM stations

Branding	Callsign	Frequency	Power	Location
702 DZAS	DZAS	702 kHz	50 kW	Metro Manila
98.7 DZFE	DZFE	98.7 MHz	20 kW
1143 DZMR Missions Radio	DZMR	1143 kHz	10 kW	Santiago
DZRK 106.3 Radyo Kapitbisig	DZRK	106.3 MHz	5 kW	Quezon, Palawan
Care 104.3 The Way FM	DWAY	104.3 MHz		Legazpi
1233 DYVS	DYVS	1233 kHz	10 kW	Bacolod
UP 987	DYFR	98.7 MHz		Cebu City
97.5 DYFE	DYFE	97.5 MHz	5 kW	Tacloban
1116 DXAS	DXAS	1116 kHz		Zamboanga City
103.3 The New J	DXJL	103.3 MHz	2.5 kW	Cagayan de Oro
1197 DXFE	DXFE	1197 kHz	10 kW	Davao City
1062 DXKI	DXKI	1062 kHz	5 kW	Koronadal
DXGR 106.9 Radyo Gandingan	DXGR	106.9 MHz		Cotabato City

Shortwave

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

Digital media

From 2022 to 2024, FEBC Philippines owned Saved Radio, a Contemporary Christian-formatted music station. FEBC took over the ownership of Saved Radio from its original owner Becca Music in 2022, effectively shutting down its previous station Now XD. Saved Radio's internet streaming shut down in 2024, citing financial difficulties as an after-effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. The brand was eventually transferred to Christ's Heritage Church in October 2024, and was converted into a Baptist-oriented podcast and digital media platform.

South Korea

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FEBC Mapo District

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.

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. 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.

Branding	Frequency	Power	Location
Seoul FEBC (HLKX)	1188 kHz	D100 kW	Seoul
	106.9 MHz	5 kW
Gangwon FEBC (HLDY)	90.1 MHz	3 kW	Gangwon
	102.9 MHz	100W
	100.9 MHz	500W
	104.3 MHz	300W
Daejeon FEBC (HLAD)	93.3 MHz	Daejeon 5 kW	Daejeon
		Gongju 500W
Jeonbuk FEBC (HLEN)	91.1 MHz	1 kW	Jeonbuk
Gwangju FEBC (HLED)	93.1 MHz		Gwangju
Mokpo FEBC (HLKW)	100.5 MHz		Mokpo
Jeonmandongbu FEBC (HLEI)	97.5 MHz		Jeonnam
	92.9 MHz	100W
Taegu FEBC (HLKK)	91.9 MHz	1 kW	Daegu
	105.9 MHz	200W
Pohang FEBC (HLDZ)	90.3 MHz	3 kW	Pohang
Busan FEBC (HLQQ)	93.3 MHz	1 kW	Busan
	96.7 MHz	20W
Ulsan FEBC (HLQR)	107.3 MHz	3 kW	Ulsan
Changwon FEBC (HLDD)	98.1 MHz	5 kW	Changwon
	92.5 MHz	500W
Jeju FEBC (HLAZ)	1566 kHz	D250 kW	Jeju
	104.7 MHz	3 kW
	101.1 MHz	90W

Indonesia

YASKI is the name for FEBC in Indonesia. It runs a number of stations under the Heartline FM brand.

Logo	Branding	Callsign	Frequency	Power	Location
	Heartline FM Tangerang	PM3FSD	100.6 MHz	5 kW	Karawaci
	Heartline FM Samarinda		94.4 MHz	5 kW	Samarinda
	Heartline FM Lampung	PM8FFY	91.7 MHz	5 kW	Lampung
	Heartline FM Bali		92.2 MHz	5 kW	Bali

Russia

FEBC Russia runs a number of stations under the Radio Teos brand.

Branding	Frequency	Power	Location
Radio Teos St. Petersburg	1089 kHz	50 kW	Saint Petersburg
Radio Teos Moscow	1134 kHz	20 kW	Moscow

United Kingdom

Main article: Feba Radio

FEBA Radio was established in 1959 in the United Kingdom.

Northern Mariana Islands

The FEBC international broadcast station on Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands was established about 1981 and closed in 2011. The local radio station, KSAI 936 AM, was on air for 24 years until shutting down on April 30, 2002. KSAI was initially established in Saipan by the United States Office of War Information (OWI) in June 1945.

Ryukyu Islands (Japan)

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.

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