How we checked 希望之声
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 3 things about this entry. We also found 5 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
|---|---|---|
|
Description
Its own English About page states "Sound of Hope Media Group (SOH) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and Upstate New York", founded in May 2003 by a group of Silicon Valley engineers, providing "independent around-the-clock news reporting and originally produced programs via YouTube, websites, mobile apps, AM/FM radio, and shortwave radio". Its Chinese pages call it 全球最大的华语广播网. Output is news, commentary, culture, health and lifestyle programming for Chinese-speaking listeners, carried on its own Californian stations, on partner stations in other US cities, and on shortwave.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Artists
none; it is a speech network and publishes no playlist.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Contact route
Yes; its own Contact page publishes three role-specific email addresses for feedback, business and listener submissions, and the English About page publishes two postal addresses. Values not reproduced here.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Contact page
https://www.soundofhope.org/page/contactus
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Era
Not the point; current daily output.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Music
Speech; news, commentary, culture, history, health, science and lifestyle.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Language
Mandarin Chinese on the main network. The site publishes in both simplified and traditional Chinese with some English pages, and the group runs its Cantonese output as a separate station (粤语台) and its Japanese output as a separate site, which is what marks the flagship as Mandarin rather than Chinese in general.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Kind
Originally produced programming distributed on its own AM and FM outlets, on partner stations, on shortwave and online; it is not a relay of another service. It also publishes its own shortwave listening guide and a firewall-circumvention listening guide.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Worth knowing
Its own shortwave page publishes a long live list of shortwave frequencies in the 6 to 21 MHz range, which is an unusual thing for a station to maintain and is its own published material.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Where
San Francisco Bay Area, California, and Upstate New York, USA. Its own About page names its Bay Area outlets as KSQQ FM 96.1, KQEB-LP FM 96.9 and KVTO AM 1400, says it partners with public radio stations in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle and New York, and says it reaches China by shortwave.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
On air
none named. I looked at the About page, the English About page, the Contact page, the Join-us page, the shortwave page and the 广播 index, and the programme entries carry titles and episode numbers without a host byline.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
|
Programmes
From its own audio pages, with episode numbers running currently: 【天亮论政】 (episode 2115 dated 20260925), 【老北京茶馆】 (episode 1755), 【今日点击】, 一周重要新闻回顾, 每日头条, 全球视野, 北美新闻, plus section strands 名家专栏, 哲思心语 and 希望之声特别节目. Airtimes are not published next to the titles on the web pages; the site presents them as on-demand episodes.
|
希望之声 / Sound of Hope Media Group, the organisation's own site | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
|---|---|---|
| country code | AS → US | The organisation's own English about page at https://www.soundofhope.org/page/eaboutus states 'Sound of Hope Media Group (SOH) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and Upstate New York', founded in May 2003 by Silicon Valley engineers, and publishes postal addresses in San Francisco and in New York State. The same page names the Californian stations it broadcasts on, KSQQ FM 96.1, KQEB-LP FM 96.9 and KVTO AM 1400, and partner stations in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle and New York. AS, American Samoa, appears nowhere in anything the organisation publishes and is an artefact. I did not set audience_country_code: the same page says the service is for 'the worldwide Chinese community' and names two markets, the United States and China, so a single audience code would misrepresent it. |
| language code
refused
|
cmn
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
|
Checked rather than assumed, and cmn is the precise answer. The organisation's own pages call it 全球最大的华语广播网 and publish the flagship in simplified and traditional Chinese, while running its Cantonese output as a separate station listed on its own audio index as 粤语台 on sohcradio.com and its Japanese output as a separate site. Because Cantonese and Japanese are split out as distinct services, the flagship network this row names is the Mandarin one. If the language table does not yet hold cmn, zh is the acceptable fallback, but cmn is what the station's own structure supports. || refused: 'cmn' is not a language we can render a name for |
| language code |
cmn
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
|
Checked rather than assumed, and cmn is the precise answer. The organisation's own pages call it 全球最大的华语广播网 and publish the flagship in simplified and traditional Chinese, while running its Cantonese output as a separate station listed on its own audio index as 粤语台 on sohcradio.com and its Japanese output as a separate site. Because Cantonese and Japanese are split out as distinct services, the flagship network this row names is the Mandarin one. If the language table does not yet hold cmn, zh is the acceptable fallback, but cmn is what the station's own structure supports. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
|---|---|
| The two postal addresses printed on the English About page | addresses are not copied into this file.
source |
| A founding statement of "经过15年的发展里程" on the Chinese About and Join-us pages | it conflicts with the dated May 2003 founding on the English About page, so I used the dated one.
source |
| Two different copyright years across its own pages | the Chinese footer reads "Copyright © 2002-2023" while the pages above it carry 2026-dated episodes.
source |
| Its sister services soundofhope.eu, sohcradio.com, bayvoice.net, jp.wanokokorosoh.com and the 澳洲台 | they are separate services on separate domains and are not this row.
source |
| Any account of its editorial position or its standing | its own pages say what it broadcasts, which is what this record carries.
source |
If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: 希望之声 — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.soundofhope.org/