WRMI Shortwave Transmission Station, Florida

WRMI, Radio Miami International, is currently the largest commercial shortwave station in the in the USA. Like many of the others, it is a brokered station, meaning it sells time for whoever pays for it. This includes a fair amount of religious programs, but WRMI tries to focus on international news and business programs, selling airtime for as little as $1 per minute, as well as local cultural programs in Spanish and English. It also serves as a relay, boosting the signal for international shortwave broadcasts from the Ukraine, Italy, Japan, and several other nations in Europe and Eastern Europe. In 2013, the station purchased the former WYFR facility in Okeechobee, Florida, and now has 12 100,000-watt transmitters, and antennas pointed at many parts of the world. 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.