Sound of Hope (SOH) is a global, non-profit provider of radio news, life-style and cultural programming, talk shows and commentaries. SOH was established in June 2003, and along with New Tang Dynasty Television and the Epoch Times, are part of a network of media organizations established by Falun Gong. practitioners, in an effort to create media that is an independent of the pressure or influence by Chinese government. It now has operating teams spread across North and South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
SOH Network radio programmes are primarily in Chinese languages (Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien), but also offers a multi-lingual service that includes English, Spanish, French, Vietnamese and Korean programming.
SOH has two main operational arms. There is the Chinese side, known as The Sound of Hope Radio Network, and the Western side which is led by the English language SOH Network, headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
The Chinese version of SOH is a non-profit radio network based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. In San Francisco Bay Area, SOH broadcasts through KSJO FM 92.3, KSQQ FM 96.1 and KVTO AM 1400 and has grown to be the largest Chinese radio in the region, providing news, music and information that is pertaining to daily life of local expatriate Chinese.
Operating from January 2004, the radio network also provides around-the-clock broadcasting through shortwave to mainland China, delivering mainly news, interviews and commentaries related to China and current affairs.
The two sides of SOH are currently broadcasting in about 10 cities worldwide through local AM/FM radio, as well as to mainland China through shortwave radio and to a worldwide Internet audience via online streaming. It reaches a worldwide audience which includes millions of expatriate Chinese and tens of millions of listeners in mainland China.
Much like the editorial line of the Epoch Times, the station is critical of the Chinese government on its human rights record and sympathtic of religious freedom of Falun Gong, suppressed beliefs, and other dissidents in China. It also provides programs promoting traditional values from Chinese history.
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