WHRI Shortwave Transmission Station, South Carolina

WHRI, World Harvest International, operates a large broadcasting facility near Furman, South Carolina, sending Christian programming in English via shortwave to Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, using two 500,000 watt transmitters, among others. It has also operated transmitters in Greenbush, Maine; Hawaii; and Palau, Indonesia, all of which have been closed, concentrating its shortwave power in South Carolina. It is owned by the Family Broadcasting Corporation, a Christian television network, headquartered in South Bend, Indiana. There are less than a dozen large shortwave radio stations broadcasting internationally from the continental USA. Most of them are transmitting Christian programming to some of the estimated 250 million people in remote parts of the world that still listen to shortwave radios.