Radio: 14 AM, 11 FM, and 1 shortwave stations in 1998.

By the 1970s, the station was one of the most powerful and most readily received shortwave stations.

On November 1, 1942, the United States government assumed control of all privately owned American shortwave stations for the war effort.

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

Before WWII all American shortwave stations were in private hands.

Feba was challenged to expand into a second large shortwave station in Sierra Leone but instead decided to focus on improving programming.

It is New Zealand's only shortwave station, broadcasting to the Island nations of the Pacific.

But hobbyists needed access to the latest news, and Arne felt the best place for them to find out was on a shortwave station.

In 2007, 86 FM and 3 shortwave stations existed.

Until recently, it took a fair amount of skill and patience to tune in a shortwave station.