World Radio TV Handbook 2014: The Directory of Global Broadcasting Paperback – January 27, 2014

PROS:1) A good book to have if you travel, and frequently visit larger metropolis style cities or areas. (ie. Truck driver, Press, News, ...)2) The section most users will want, is the smaller section far near to the rear of this book, listing stations and broadcasts by hour. In other words, unless you're extremely rural and have no other means of hearing news broadcasts (ie. FM, TV, Internet, ...) and are not going to be sitting down for regular specific routine 30 or 60 minute periods of time (ie. You're daily/nightly news hour), then you'll be listening to shortwave broadcasts at random times. The other exception, are those foreigners wanting to listen to routine news of their home Country.3) Contains addresses and contact information of almost all major stations and broadcasters, world wide. (ie. Good for when you're wanting to blackmail the wife or kids?)4) There are a few minimal pages of advertisements, but I found they were all in pretty much good taste, and more informative for readers wanting to learn what popular listening devices are commonly utilized nowadays.5) Mentions each stations sign-on and sign-off signal or statement. (ie. Japan's NHK famous tone, or the other stating "This is the Voice of ...", ...) Very useful and essential to confirm, or cross reference; and verify the station being listened too.CONS:1) Some columns contain only two or three letter abbreviations, for which are difficult to comprehend. Even though the columns within the book has seemingly more than adequate space for greater than five to ten characters!2) Abbreviation index(es) is/are difficult to find, but usually is found within the forward or rear of the smaller smaller listings.3) Completely omits almost all Alaska public FM/AM broadcasts or stations. (But from the example published, does make mention of Alaska's shortwave transmitters around Anchorage.) One would also think Canada would still have quite a few shortwave stations due to the large rural areas, but there are only a few listed. And the more remote (ie. Yukon territory), the fewer and the far less broadcasting power used!4) As of yet, no digital versions of this hefty book. (ie. PDF or Postscript.) Travellers will not enjoy carrying such larger items! Nevertheless, I'll pack it for my road trips. There is a bar graph CD/DVD, but I'm not privy of it's informative value as of yet.

It's just a book that gets published annually and then becomes out of date. I wish that WRTH would have a database subscription of the frequencies that are on the air though a android app or PC app. The book is good for offline DXing, just hoping that the information is good until the next copy comes out. I was looking at the long wave stations, and Radio Rossii should be removed from the page because they went permanantly off the air in January 2014. And some other stations are going off air too that are in this book. It's only good if you like days of new radio history, but frequencies get on the air and then leave the air according to the internet. I wish that they would add all of the US TV stations in this book since it's a TV handbook, I remember back in 1992 through 1994 they used to have big dish satellite listings which made me be full aware of the satellite stations available. Now it's just TV channels from different countries that require special TV decoding equipment, which is good for a international broadcast engineer more than a DXer. I think this book should be published every 6 months without the television information included, because who needs the TV information unless you're travelling to that country. Now the AM stations in the book are good and fresh, but the short wave and long wave stations, better keep up with that type of information online. The FM stations are good for FM DXer's, but does not include stations from every city which they should make another book for all FM stations some of those stations become out of date from loss of funding, loss of license, license revoked, or natural disaster causes. The verdict is : Make this book as your offline radio reference source and make sure that you get it every year to keep up with the major changes in radio broadcasting. Great book for DXer's, engineers, general radio listening, Hams, pirates, technicians, repair shops, electronic businesses.

Count me as a casual shortwave hobbyist who regards WRTH as an essential reference with useful reviews. My 2014 edition, "Printed and bound in the UK by CPI William Clowes, Beccles NR34 7TL", is poorly printed and bound. Mis-alignment of text and graphics is especially prominent on the glossy color pages (1-64). Many adjacent pages in this first section are still uncut and bound to each other at their upper borders. The content organized by Publisher Nicholas Hardyman and provided by so many enthusiastic contributors deserves better than this.A complementary publication, Passport to Word Band Radio, ceased shortly after I moved to Japan. Now, my companion to WRTH is a book called 周波数帳 that is published periodically, but not as often as WRTH. It has a more comprehensive listing of Japanese stations, as one might expect.Here's hoping Mr. Hardyman and colleagues hold CPI William Clowes' feet to the fire so they can do a better job of printing and binding next year. I'll be as eager as ever to get WRTH 2015.

I have used the World Radio Television Handbook for over fifty years. It is a terrific radio resource for international and domestic shortwave broadcast stations (medium wave too) that is an industry standard reference work. I couldn't imagine listening to shortwave radio transmissions without the WRTH nearby.

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excellent book good editorial value thank you ,sad part is the world is changing and am radio will be a thing of the past and even fm radio will be on the computer and the internet

I thought it would be helpful for using my shortwave radio. It is somewhat useful but a lot of the information has changed for 2015 so is no longer relevant.

Even in this world of diminishing over the air shortwave broadcasts, this book is still supreme and a great assist to the hobbyist.

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