Shortwave International World Radio Airtime services

Since 1988, NEXUS-IBA has been the world’s first and most trusted global radio transmission service provider, delivering industry-leading broadcast distribution solutions for radio programs. As the longest-standing provider in the market, we specialise in reliable shortwave radio broadcasting, satellite radio transmission, and high-quality internet radio streaming. Our proven track record and global reach ensure your radio content is distributed with precision, clarity, and unmatched consistency to audiences worldwide.

There are many opportunities to reach large, global audiences, especially on the Internet. However, huge areas are still not covered by the Internet, TV, FM or AM (Medium Wave) or satellite. Placing programs on just one of these media will severely restrict your potential audience and targets.

Broadcast Your Voice to the World with NEXUS-IBA Shortwave Radio

Reach global audiences across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific through NEXUS-International Broadcasting Association’s powerful shortwave radio services. Whether you’re a Christian pastor, a mission organisation, a secular program producer, or an NGO, our shortwave platform offers cost-effective airtime to share your message internationally. NEXUS-IBA combines traditional broadcasting with digital innovation, ensuring your voice is heard clearly, even in the most remote regions. Discover how to connect with listeners worldwide through shortwave radio, one of the most resilient and far-reaching communication mediums.

International Broadcasting Services on Shortwave (World Radio or HF Radio)

Many developing countries in Africa and other remote regions of the world, such as Asia, the Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, are still not extensively covered by the Internet. Mobile phones can be too expensive, mobile networks are not always available in remote areas, and many villages lack access to cable or terrestrial TV, as well as FM or AM radio stations. Satellite radio and TV are not options where equipment is expensive or electricity is unavailable. Mobile data plans are unaffordable in some African and Asian countries, and many residents still rely on old-style GSM phones without internet connectivity.

That also means that even today, millions of people in the world’s poorest and most remote regions have no access to the Internet, whether in mobility or at home, no access to social media, YouTube, Netflix, Google, or Bing, and no streaming capabilities.

Shortwave International Broadcasting, also known as Word Radio or “HF radio,” reaches everywhere when and where no other form of communication exists.

In today’s fragmented media, whether you represent a large or small international media organisation, secular or religious, you should have a multi-channel media strategy encompassing multiple platforms.

NEXUS-IBA offers international broadcasting organisations and individual program producers access to multiple International media platforms and channels simultaneously.

Start Your Radio Station: World Radio Airtime for All

Do you have a program or a message to air but no radio station? Most programs carried on our stations are relayed or produced by small and large broadcasting organisations or small program producers’ broadcasting facilities. As is often the case, they rely in whole or in part on NEXUS-IBA for strategic know-how and consulting on how to increase the effectiveness of their media distribution, i.e., on how to reach their international audience most reliably and cost-effectively.

NEXUS-IBA offers prime time on Shortwave radio (World Radio) and a global outreach platform for various content types, including audio, video, and text. It is designed to distribute media content via multiple international media outlets, including radio and TV stations, satellite, cloud facilities, audio and video streaming, social media, and our Internet CDN technology, WorldDirector.

Our Broadcast Content Policy

NEXUS-IBA broadcasts across the Shortwave and AM (Medium Wave) bands, providing airtime to both secular and religious broadcasters. We support Free Speech and encourage our hosts to create top-quality programs that fulfil your vision (not ours). We aim to help you broadcast your content to your desired international audience. We also help organisations air news and information on a Crisis, a National or International Emergency.

Please note that NEXUS-IBA does not support it, and we will ban Hate Speech from our stations. We will not broadcast any program that may spread, incite, promote or justify hatred, violence, war and discrimination against any person or group.

Buy Radio Airtime in Confidence with NEXUS-IBA

Radio airtime is available on Shortwave worldwide and AM (Medium Wave) radio in Europe, reaching most European countries, including Eastern Europe, as well as Africa, the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific.

Have you been offered airtime at one US dollar or less per minute (or $60.00 or less per hour) on a cheap radio station, and you are not satisfied with your coverage? Are you using old transmitters claiming powers and targets they cannot reach? We can offer the best cost-effective service and the best signal to cover your desired target areas.

Using our broadcast facility, you will no longer deal with cheap old 1950s transmitters claiming powers and targets they cannot reach.

For example, some stations claim to broadcast from 100,000-watt transmitters. Still, they cannot modulate their transmitter at full power. With that power (or less), they can only cover parts of the continent from which they are broadcasting. However, they have poor coverage of Europe, Africa, and Asia and are only under favourable propagation conditions.

Via NEXUS-IBA, you can purchase airtime on high-powered shortwave (SW) and medium wave (AM) radio stations that are geographically located in Europe, i.e. one hop from Africa, the Middle East and with an easy target to Asia (i.e. India, China, Iran, Iraq, Kashmir, Nepal, Afghanistan) and the Pacific.

Based in Europe, our stations provide high-quality coverage of Europe, Africa, and Asia/Pacific, utilising new transmitters and power ranging from 150,000 to 300,000 watts, tailored to your specific needs and business requirements.

Shortwave radio remains the most effective way to reach audiences without relying on the Internet, mobile phones, FM, AM, TV receivers, or other modern, costly means of communication. It goes beyond iron curtains, firewalls, the digital divide, government propaganda and censorship, and emergencies such as regional conflicts, wars, or natural disasters.

For a reasonable monthly investment, you can create your Shortwave radio channel or station and reach an audience that was previously untapped. We offer service to all continents with state-of-the-art equipment, including high-power transmitters and high-gain HF directional antennas that amplify the Effective Radiated Power (ERP) to several million Watts and reach any desired target.

Brokered Radio airtime

We can enable any media buying organisation, agency, airtime broker, brokered programming, secular or religious organisation to cost-effectively reach most English-speaking regions or any particular non-English-speaking target area.

Radio Media Buying and Airtime Costs on Major Networks

Typical prime-time spots on national US networks can cost $200,000 to $800,000, while on a larger national cable network, you are expected to pay $40,000 to $80,000. On smaller US networks, costs are between $2,000 and $40,000; on smaller local stations, you can buy some spots for as little as $50 for 60 seconds.

Shortwave airtime is cost-effective, and you can reach millions of listeners

Shortwave radio (also known as “World Radio“) is one of the preferred and most cost-effective ways to reach audiences of several million listeners, especially in remote and developing areas where other media, such as the Internet, are not as widespread.

Our recent addition of 100, 150, and 300 kW transmitters to our capabilities enables us to efficiently reach any region globally, including Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia/Pacific, and the Americas, using directional antennas on any frequency and at any time of day or night. In addition, more minor(reduced) powers of 10 to 50 kW (low-power broadcasting) coupled with very efficient HF curtain array antennas (directional antennas) can also be used to reach local audiences at a budget price in Europe.

The costs of running a Shortwave broadcast depend mainly on the transmitter power, prime time, promotions and availability of free transmitters and antennas or unsold airtime.

The cost of broadcasting for one hour on Shortwave Worldwide can be just 1/6 of the lowest 1-minute rate of a radio or TV spot on a local US station, and a fraction of the cost of reaching a single market in the USA.

The cost of airtime available via NEXUS-IBA also includes free World Radio live streaming (simulcast) and Shortwave Radio Relaying from any existing streaming channel at no additional charge.

Shortwave reaches any remote place and conflict area in the world

World Radio: Bridging Across the Digital Divide

Shortwave radio (“World Radio” or “HF Radio”) remains a vital electronic medium for reaching the largest number of potential listeners worldwide. The world’s most prominent international broadcast organisations, Christian Churches and many governments continue their activities via Shortwave, investing in studio and transmission facilities.

In recent history, the Gulf War, conflicts in Africa, and the problematic situations in North Korea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Cameroon, and other world regions have demonstrated the vital role of shortwave telecommunications in reaching a vast audience. Listeners can use inexpensive, portable receivers.

Shortwave is everywhere. It is the world’s most mobile medium!

International Media Placement vs. Local and National Radio & TV

Airtime on local and national radio & TV Media can be costly and reach just one market. With widespread and inexpensive Internet distribution technology, as offered by modern information technology and the Internet, audio and video streaming may appear cheap and reach a large audience. However, while this may be true in Europe and North America, where Internet penetration reaches about 80% of the population, Africa has only about 20% of its users connected to the Internet.

Even where Internet access is cheap and generally available, the audience is in the hands of the major streaming players (i.e. Netflix, YouTube, Facebook), and content is highly fragmented. Will you succeed in making an impact streaming from your website?

Content on satellite and TV is equally fragmented. Thousands of channels are available on satellite, cable, or digital TV (DTT). Will you attract enough listeners to your network or any local station to justify the substantial investment in buying airtime on these networks?

NEXUS-IBA offers a mix of global, local, and Internet broadcasting platforms that help any media organisation reach alternative, larger international audiences. We use online streaming, AM (Medium Wave), and Shortwave. English is the most widely used language across our network and among listeners worldwide, but we can also reach remote countries in their regional languages.

So, don’t hesitate to contact us for more information or a quote on how to reach any country in Europe, Africa, Asia, or worldwide via online streaming at a fraction of the cost you may be paying today to get a local audience on FM, AM, or TV.

International Broadcasting on Shortwave

Anyone interested in buying airtime or brokering their program on the radio should consider Shortwave’s high impact and cost-effectiveness compared to other media, such as local broadcast stations, cable channels, local TV, AM or FM radio, and the Internet.

Technically, standard AM and FM stations lose power as their signals dissipate along the ground over long distances. In Shortwave, the opposite is true. The Earth is encased in an invisible covering of gases called the Ionosphere. This covering acts as a mirror, reflecting shortwave signals to Earth, thus enabling the coverage of vast distances with a single transmitter. This is why Shortwave is so efficient and cost-effective.

In the case of our NEXUS-IBA and our stations (European Gospel Radio and IRRS-Shortwave), you can cover Europe, Africa, or Asia/Pacific, and any remote location in the world, for the same or less money than it would cost to reach just one local market at home.

Brokered programming, time-buy and block time

NEXUS-IBA’s primary aim is to provide all necessary means at our disposal for disseminating cultural, ethnic, political, and religious material on behalf of both members and non-members of the association. According to our charter:

“Radio is to be the primary medium, locally, nationally, and internationally, although other forms of mass media may also be used. Pluralism of information is to be assured, with particular attention paid to minorities; above all ethnic, cultural, political, and religious minorities, without regard to race, sex, language, or political or religious beliefs, and in full accordance with the Human Rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Italy and by International Law”.

NEXUS-IBA’s charter states that “whoever has a message to share with the world” may be given access to block airtime on NEXUS-IBA media to relay their program without discrimination based on religious creed.

NEXUS-IBA has been the first organisation to exist and implement such an open-access policy for almost any type of content (limitations apply to terrorist groups, rebels, or anti-government groups identified as such by Italian, European, or International law).

Over the years, such an open policy has been accepted and judged positively by international organisations or human rights movements, world and local news media organisations and private broadcasters, as well as non-governmental organisations agencies all around the world, who have been using block programming time on Internet streaming and NEXUS-IBA’s World Service transmitter facilities.

Are you a Pirate, an Illegal or a Clandestine Broadcaster?

NEXUS-IBA and IRRS (the Italian Radio Relay Service) have helped illegal broadcasters become legal program producers and broadcast on licensed media. NEXUS-IBA and our stations do not support pirate or illicit broadcasting.

We operate from stations licensed in each country. We can operate from several countries and cover any part of the world.

Shortwave is the practical solution if you have a message or radio program to spread across borders. It can reach targets that are inaccessible via the Internet due to local government censorship or because the desired targets may be so remote and isolated that no other media, including local FM, TV, and the Internet, are available.

IPAR (International Public Access Radio) is a Public Access Radio service provided by NEXUS-IBA. It is available to any individual program producer, community radio station, micro radio station, or non-religious organisation that wants to distribute its radio programs to a global audience. Visit our website to learn more about all existing IPAR promotions. 

Contact us if you would like to join our community of small radio program producers and air your program to a worldwide audience using powerful Shortwave and mediumwave (AM) transmitters.

Digital Radio & DRM

Digital Radio on AM and Shortwave (Digital Radio Mondiale) is also available via our stations. Please inquire if you want to experiment with this fascinating technology before it is fully implemented.

You can also read more about our Shortwave and International Broadcasting on Milano Ventures ‘ website.

For more information on using NEXUS-IBA Shortwave services, please contact us.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): International Shortwave Broadcasting with NEXUS-IBA

Who can broadcast on NEXUS-IBA Shortwave radio stations?

Anyone with a message or program can broadcast through NEXUS-IBA. We work with:

• Religious organisations and churches
• Secular content creators and radio producers
• NGOs and humanitarian missions
• Political groups and human rights advocates
• Independent podcasters and media freelancers

Shortwave broadcasting allows you to reach global audiences, especially in regions where the internet is censored, radio is restricted, or freedom of expression is under threat.

Do I need to be a NEXUS-IBA member to broadcast?

No. Membership is not required. We offer free consulting to non-members to help choose the best broadcast schedule, target region, and transmission setup. Our trusted commercial partners handle airtime billing; NEXUS-IBA does not issue commercial invoices or profit from airtime sales.

Can I target specific regions, such as Africa, Asia, or the Middle East?

Yes. Thanks to our use of directional antennas and powerful shortwave transmitters, we can focus broadcasts toward:

• Africa (sub-Saharan and North Africa)
• The Middle East
• Central and South Asia
• East Asia, including China
• Europe and Eastern Europe
• The Pacific, including Australia
• North and South America

Our Shortwave broadcasting platform can deliver up to 38 million Watts Effective Radiated Power (ERP), enabling targeted, high-penetration coverage into any country worldwide, even in remote or media-restricted areas.

Is shortwave still effective in the digital age?

Absolutely. Shortwave remains a vital medium for bypassing digital and political restrictions. It:

• Works during internet blackouts and disasters
• Requires no mobile network or data connection
• It is difficult to block or jam consistently
• Can reach people with just a simple, inexpensive radio
• Where digital platforms are vulnerable, shortwave stays resilient.

What is the cost of broadcasting on shortwave?

The cost of shortwave broadcasting varies based on a few key factors:

• How long does your program run (e.g., 15, 30, or 60 minutes per broadcast)
• How often do you broadcast (once a week, daily, or multiple times per day)
• Where and when you want to reach listeners (target region and time of day)
• The transmission power used, which can go up to 300 kW, results in stronger signal coverage

Since each broadcast setup is different, pricing is calculated based on your specific needs and the actual cost of transmission. Our team offers free consultation to help you design an effective and affordable broadcast plan.

Our partners calculate costs based on actual operating expenses, not inflated commercial rates. NEXUS-IBA, as a non-profit organisation, plays a purely advisory role and provides transparent recommendations to help you achieve the best value.

Can I reach countries with internet censorship or firewalls?

Yes. Shortwave is one of the few technologies that can cut through digital censorship and national firewalls. We help broadcasters reach audiences in places like:

• China
• Iran
• North Korea
• Russia
• Myanmar
• Eritrea
• Azerbaijan
• Vietnam
• Cuba
• Other countries where online media is tightly controlled or blocked altogether.

What kind of content can I broadcast?

We support a wide range of formats and genres, including:

• Christian preaching, liturgy, and Bible teaching
• Religious or spiritual programming from all faiths
• Talk shows, news commentary, and political analysis
• Human rights campaigns and educational content
• Music, interviews, and cultural features
• Replays of podcasts or online shows

We only require compliance with international broadcast standards and reject any content promoting violence or hatred.

How soon can I start broadcasting?

Very soon. Once we receive your content and confirm your schedule and coverage area, you can be on air in just a few days. We provide:

• Upload instructions
• Transmission schedules
• Audience feedback tools
• Maps showing your signal reach

Why choose NEXUS-IBA?

NEXUS-IBA is a trusted, independent NGO with a legacy spanning over 30 years in international broadcasting. We offer:

• High-power shortwave broadcasting (ERP up to 38 million Watts)
• Coverage to any country in the world
• Total independence from governments or sponsors
• Free consulting tailored to your goals and audience

Whether you’re delivering a message of faith, freedom, or information, NEXUS-IBA gives you a powerful and uncensored global voice. 

Contact us for more information by sending your requirements and requesting a quote online.