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WYFR
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.
WYFR was descended from W1XAL, an experimental shortwave station in that was granted its license in 1927 and broadcast from
Vietnamese, Spanish, German, French and Russian.
As of July 1, 2013, RTI terminated its shortwave broadcasts to North and South America due to budget cuts caused by the closure of WYFR, a Christian religious shortwave station which RTI leased airtime from and whose Florida transmitter RTI used to broadcast to the Americas. RTI programming was broadcast on WYFR at 5.95 MHz and 9.61 MHz between 5 p.m./6 p.m. Eastern until 3 a.m./4 a.m. After that point, Family Radio continued to host RTI's audio service to the Chinese