The station's transmitters are in Alaska and the Indian Ocean, and all of its programs are produced at the company headquarters and broadcast operations center in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville.
Although World Christian Broadcasting was formed in 1976, the idea came about 30 years earlier when Army Signal Corps officer Maurice Hall prepared shortwave transmitters for the Yalta Conference for use by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his staff so they could keep up with news from Washington.
Hall began to realize that if shortwave radio could transmit political news across long distances, it could also broadcast Gospel messages to large parts of the world.
KNLS signed on the air July 23, 1983, broadcasting ten hours a day in Mandarin Chinese and Russian and reaching roughly one-third of the world.
In 1991, World Christian Broadcasting presented a program called "The Reflection Hour" from Moscow over Russia's All-Union Radio network.
Programs are presented in a magazine-style format and provide Bible and religious teaching segments and reports about life in America as well as music.
[citation needed] World Christian Broadcasting's current stations are in Anchor Point, Alaska, and on an island in the Indian Ocean.