KFBS Saipan closed down April 30

There have been questions in the past couple of weeks about the current status of religious broadcaster FEBC’s shortwave station KFBS on Saipan. Now we have the answer: Oleg Cherny, FEBC Russia’s chief engineer, has confirmed in a letter that KFBS ended transmissions on 30 April.
(Source: Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine via Alokesh Gupta on Twitter/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Andy Sennitt adds: This decision appears to have been taken at short notice. The FEBC Russian Ministries website now says “With stations in Moscow, St Petersburg, Khabarovsk and Ussuriysk, as well as satellite and internet service…” The first edition of Update for 2011 makes no mention of the closure. However, Saipan has been removed from the list of sites in the online schedule. The current HFCC schedule for FEBC stations is at http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A11&broadc=FEC
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

KFBS Saipan - A08 Multilingual schedule

Effective: 30 March - 26 October 2008
Time(UTC) Freq Language and day - Su M Tu W Th F Sa

0900-1330 11650 Russian
1330-1345 11650 Udmurt(Su,Tu),Tatar(M),Mari(W),Uzbek(Th),Kazakh(F,Sa)
1345-1400 11650 Udmurt(Su),Tatar(M,Tu),Chuvash(W),Ossetic(Th),Kyrghiz(F,Sa)
1400-1530 9465 Russian
1530-1545 9465 Russian(Su,M,W,Th,F,Sa),Ukrainian(Tu,)
1545-1600 9465 Russian(Su,W, Th,Sa),Ukrainian(M,Tu,F,)
0800-1415 11580 Mandarin(Chinese)
1000-1030 15580 Sasak
1030-1130 15580 Indonesian
1230-1300 11850 Gorontalo(Th, F, Sa, Su)
1230-1300 11850 Madura(M,Tu, W)
1300-1400 9920 Vietnamese
2230-2300 12090 Vietnamese

Note: Saipan local time is 10 hours ahead of Universal Time Co-ordinate (UTC).
The Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC)operates one station on Saipan.
KFBS, an international shortwave station, broadcasts in 16 languages to areas including South East Asia,Indo-China,China and the Commonwealth
of Independent States.

FEBC Radio International
Radio Station KFBS
PO Box 500209
SAIPAN MP 96950
USA
(Source: Alokesh Gupta, India)