There are over 15,000 full power AM and FM radio stations licensed in the US right now – and that number doesn’t figure to change a whole lot during the rest of the year. The same cannot be said for FM translators and LPFM stations, however. Here’s where the totals stand now so we have something for comparison purposes later.
This is the official FCC count as of 3/31/13:
FM TRANSLATORS & BOOSTERS: 6,053
LOW POWER FM: 802
Here are the totals on the full power side:
AM STATIONS: 4736
FM COMMERCIAL: 6603
FM EDUCATIONAL: 3917
And while we’re at it, here’s where things stand on the television side:
UHF COMMERCIAL TV: 1027
VHF COMMERCIAL TV: 358
UHF EDUCATIONAL TV: 289
VHF EDUCATIONAL TV: 107
CLASS A UHF STATIONS: 395
CLASS A VHF STATIONS: 59
UHF TRANSLATORS: 2924
VHF TRANSLATORS: 1153
UHF LOW POWER TV: 1564
VHF LOW POWER TV: 403
That works out to 30,390 licenses.
