Adventist World Radio (AWR) Shortwave Schedule

The shortwave schedule of Adventist World Radio (AWR), the international radio of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, on the timelines of your cities: every broadcast with its language, frequencies, target area and transmitter site, shown in your own time zone instead of UTC.

AWR broadcasts in about 35 languages, many of them rarely heard on the radio. Mandarin, Cantonese, Amoy, Korean and Uighur reach East Asia; a group of programs for Myanmar covers Burmese, Karen, Kachin, Shan, Mon, Rakhine, Lisu and Chin; South Asia hears Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese, Kok Borok, Pashto and Sindhi. Indonesian, Javanese and Sundanese go to Indonesia, and in the evening (UTC) a block for Africa runs through Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Nigerian Pidgin.

Most programs are half an hour and leave from AWR’s own station KSDA on Guam, in the western Pacific, with relays in Germany and Madagascar for Africa. Some languages alternate by day of the week. AWR publishes its schedule in UTC and changes frequencies at the end of March and the end of October; this calendar follows the current season of the EiBi shortwave schedule and places each broadcast at its local time in each of your cities.

Select a broadcast to see its frequencies in kHz, the target area, the transmitter and the days it airs, with a link to listen on an online SDR receiver.

Questions and answers

What languages does Adventist World Radio broadcast in?

About 35: Mandarin, Cantonese, Amoy, Korean and Uighur; Burmese, Karen, Kachin, Shan, Mon, Rakhine, Lisu and Chin for Myanmar; Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and other languages of South Asia; Indonesian, Javanese and Sundanese; and Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin and Malagasy for Africa.

Does AWR broadcast in English on shortwave?

Not in the current schedule: AWR uses shortwave for the languages of Asia and Africa, where it reaches listeners that other media do not.

What are the AWR shortwave frequencies?

Mostly between 9.6 and 15.6 MHz, often several at once. Select a broadcast on the timeline to see them in kHz. They change at the end of March and the end of October.

Where does Adventist World Radio transmit from?

Mostly from its own station KSDA at Agat on Guam, with relays at Nauen in Germany and in Madagascar for Africa.

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