Together, Bringing Christian Hope Beyond Digital Reach—Where It’s Needed Most

KCH Radio is an international Christian broadcasting initiative bringing together transmission infrastructure in Moldova, our studio in Belgrade and a team with 20 years of experience in international medium-wave and shortwave broadcasting.

We are creating a permanent channel through which Christian radio stations, missions, churches and theological institutions can deliver their Russian- and Ukrainian-language programs to listeners across the region.

Partners provide programs they have already produced. KCH Radio assembles the schedule, prepares material for broadcast, transmits the signal, monitors it, makes off-air recordings (airchecks) and provides technical reports.

Christian radio stations, missions and ministries from different denominations are invited to participate, provided they share the project’s editorial principle: Christian content without politics.

Medium-wave radio does not replace the internet, satellite television or local stations. It complements them wherever digital channels are unavailable, insufficiently reliable or too difficult for the listener to use.

We are seeking to reach not merely the largest audience, but the audience that is hardest to reach.

These are people separated from church communities and familiar sources of Christian programming, without the spiritual fellowship, support and guidance they need:

• residents of conflict zones and occupied territories;
• families experiencing electricity and communications outages;
• believers whose congregations have been closed or restricted;
• older people who find apps, VPNs and streaming services difficult to use;
• residents of small towns and villages without local Christian radio;
• listeners who have lost access to familiar websites, podcasts and video platforms because of restrictions and blocks;
• people for whom mobile data and additional digital services are too expensive.

KCH Radio does more than put a signal on the air. In addition to our own partner network, developed through earlier humanitarian projects, we maintain a verified contact base of parishes and Christian communities in Ukraine and Russia, with some contacts in Belarus, as well as a base of listeners who have communicated with us previously.

Before regular broadcasting begins, we will contact these communities and provide ready-to-use announcement copy, the frequency, schedule and simple instructions for tuning an FM/AM radio, asking them to include the information in community mailing lists or chats and inform their congregations as widely as possible.

For their part, partner broadcasters can announce the programs to their online audiences at the same time.

Together, these efforts will help build strong awareness among the potential audience through online communication and word of mouth within local Christian communities.

Reports from communities and listeners, together with remote SDR monitoring, will enable us to assess both signal availability and the development of a real audience. We do not promise a ready-made mass audience from day one, but we do offer an organized process for developing that audience and gathering feedback.

Our team’s core expertise lies in organizing broadcasts, operating transmission infrastructure and verifying signal propagation. Our aim is not to become a major producer of Christian programming.

On our own, we could prepare only a limited daily service. A single hour of programming per day would match neither the scale of the audience’s needs nor the transmitter’s capacity.

Christian radio stations, missions, churches and educational institutions already produce high-quality programs, understand their listeners and possess the necessary theological, editorial and pastoral expertise.

We have therefore chosen a partnership model:

• KCH Radio provides the broadcast channel, technical expertise and complete operational support;
• partners provide the programs;
• together, we create a complete and varied evening schedule.

The transmitter thus becomes a shared channel rather than a station belonging to a single organization, enabling different Christian ministries to reach people who no longer have reliable access to spiritual fellowship, support and guidance.

Regular broadcasting on 621 kHz is planned to begin at Christmas 2026. An information campaign among Christian communities and associations is scheduled to begin six weeks before the start of regular broadcasting.

Partners that remain interested in the project following the test will be offered the opportunity to include their programs in the information campaign and move to regular broadcasting. KCH Radio will fund the first ten days of regular broadcasting for each partner. Thereafter, each partner will contribute to the transmitter’s operating costs, which we cannot fully cover ourselves, in proportion to the actual airtime used by that partner’s programs.

With sufficient overall use of the transmitter, our preliminary calculations indicate that a partner’s cost will be approximately USD 1–1.15 per minute actually broadcast.

Partners pay at the end of each month, only for airtime actually used. No advance payment is required.

We will set no minimum daily or weekly broadcasting commitment.

We will not insist on long-term agreements. A partner may stop broadcasting at any time, subject to reasonable advance notice.

• access to an additional, interested audience without having to arrange program delivery to listeners independently;
• the ability to reach people whom digital platforms do not always reach;
• the ability to use Russian- and Ukrainian-language programs that have already been produced;
• support in building an audience through KCH Radio’s contacts, its base of parishes and Christian communities, and a joint listener-information campaign;
• program preparation for broadcast and complete technical support;
• airchecks and objective monitoring data on reception area and quality;
• participation without constructing a transmission network or obtaining licenses in the receiving countries;
• a clear path from a free on-air test to possible regular broadcasting.