Editor Richard Fisher, KI6SN Frequency Monthly First issue July 1971 | Categories Amateur radio Publisher CQ Communications Final issue November 2008 | |
WorldRadio was a monthly amateur radio enthusiast magazine published in Asheville, North Carolina, United States from July, 1971 to November, 2008. The magazine was published in English and drew its subscription base primarily from the United States of America and Canada, although it had subscribers around the world. The staff of the magazine had an amateur radio club that has been assigned the call sign WR6WR. This magazine is unrelated to a magazine called "WORLD-RADIO" published in the United Kingdom prior to World War II.
Sale to CQ Communications, Inc.
On November 12, 2008, CQ Communications, publishers of CQ Amateur Radio magazine, CQ VHF Magazine, and Popular Communications magazine announced that they had purchased WorldRadio magazine from WorldRadio publisher Armond Noble. All paid subscriptions for WorldRadio were to be turned into CQ Amateur Radio subscriptions, while WorldRadio was to be continued as an on-line magazine. The first online issue, renamed WorldRadio Online, was published in February, 2009.