Christian Broadcasting Station in Madagascar to Reach Five Billion

World Christian Broadcasting has begun a new project to build a broadcasting facility on the island of Madagascar. This new radio station will increase the potential audience from three to five billion people, to over two-thirds of the planet who will be able to listen to Christian broadcast signal.

The second shortwave transmitter and antenna in Anchor Point, Alaska of the Short Wave Station KNLS, owned and operated by World Christian Broadcasting doubled the daily transmission time from 10 to a total of 20 hours.

The broadcasts in 4 languages of Mandarin, Chinese, Russian and English are made possible by churches, individual Christians, foundations and businesses using the facilities of Station KNLS, and the new structure is the result of "Double the Dream" - a successful fund-raising campaign.

Andy Baker, Vice-President, directing the campaign said, "The success of the 'Double the Dream Campaign' is the result of the efforts of a dedicated staff of workers and a whole host of generous contributors."

"Without them, we would have had only a faint hope of success, but thanks to God, we have realised our dream. Now, we can broadcast a full ten hours to the Chinese, without interruptions, a full six hours in Russian and four in English. That's twice what we have been doing since 1983!" Baker added.

President of World Christian Broadcasting, Charles Caudill explained about the hard work of staff in Anchor Point, "They had to work in some of the worst weather conditions you can imagine. The toughness and perseverance of Kevin Chambers, Dave Dvorak and Charlie Perry is an outstanding example of dedication and purpose. We are very grateful to them."

In a response, the President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, offered enough land for the World Christian Broadcasting company to build a state-of-the-art, digital broadcasting facility, capable to reach all of Africa, Australia, Europe, the entire Middle East, European Russia, several Scandinavian countries and South-western China.

Arabic programming will be added to the three languages used now.

World Christian Broadcasting, a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to help make it possible to teach God's Word each day to people who are otherwise beyond missionary outreach, says that the land is secure and ground preparation has started. World Christian Broadcasting will now fully focus on building the facilities there.

After completing the first preparations, digging the wells, stringing the power lines and installing the security fences, the combined stations will constitute one of the largest and most powerful digital broadcasters in the world.