Trans World Radio

Trans World Radio ( TWR ) is a world -working radio ministry. It was founded by American missionaries and beamed his first radio broadcast on February 24, 1954 under the name Voice of Tangier towards Europe.

History

Founder of the radio emission was the American missionary Paul Freed. The aim of this work was originally Protestant missionary evangelization of Spain. TWR should this support in the form of Christian radio broadcasts, which were first broadcast on shortwave in English and Spanish. Since that time the foreigners resident in Spain has never been granted for a long time, was the site of Tangier in Morocco. Missionaries from Germany supported this work and so in 1956 German -language broadcasts were first aired from Tangier.

The collected experiences in Tangier in 1959 led to the foundation of gospel broadcasting, was founded as a German-language branch of TWR. Seat of this transmitter is today Wetzlar. The ERF branches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are now independent partner within TWR.

In the era of decolonization, you had to leave the transmitter site in Tangier. The Mission built a shortwave broadcast station in the Principality of Monaco, which went into operation in 1960. Together with Radio Monte Carlo is now divided into the Trans World Radio renamed Mission medium and short wave transmitters in Monaco.

Some years later the missionary work built its own transmission facilities to overseas locations. So TWR first opened a medium-wave and short- wave end system in the Netherlands Antilles to power in Latin America. Transmission facilities in Cyprus, Guam, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, South Africa and Armenia were followed in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

The demise of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe resulted in significant changes for TWR. So it was possible to rent station capacity in Eastern Europe and broadcast programs on local radio stations on site. In 1992 TWR first shipments through the powerful towers of Radio Tirana in Albania - the first officially atheistic country in the world.

Trans World Radio today

Today TWR sends with its national partners around 1,800 hours per week over 13 major stations on medium and short wave. In addition, it radiates programs via satellite for Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. In more than 160 countries today programs of the radio emission can be received in more than 190 different languages ​​and dialects.

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