WYFR
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| City of license | Okeechobee, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Branding | Family Radio |
| First air date | October 20, 1973 |
| Frequency | 5,950 and 9,610 (kHz) in North America |
| Format | Christian radio daytime / Radio Taiwan International nighttime |
| Callsign meaning | We're Your Family Radio |
| Owner | Family Stations Inc. |
| Website | www.familyradio.com |
WYFR is a shortwave radio station located in Okeechobee, Florida, USA. 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 12 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".
At night after 5pm/6pm until sometime the next morning Eastern Time (depending on Daylight Savings Time), this station broadcasts Radio Taiwan International in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, and Spanish.
This radio station currently broadcasts on shortwave at 5950 and 9610 kHz in the United States.
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