Tinang Transmitter (Concepcion)

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The Philippines Transmitting Station (PTS) is a large and complex International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) overseas facility. The mission of this Station is to transmit Voice of America (VOA) programs, Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS), and Radio Liberty (RL) to selected target areas. These programs are fed from the main IBB studios in Washington 0.0 via satellite. No programs other than PBS are originated in country.
The transmitted programs are broadcast to listening audiences in China, the USSR, East Asia, Southwest Pacific, Africa, and South Asia in as many as 13 languages using both short and medium wave frequency bands. The Philippines Transmitting Station has long been a part of the Philippine scene having begun broadcasting from a transmitting station located at Malolos, Bulacan shortly after World War II. That facility was subsequently granted to the Government of the Philippines in 1969 after the construction of the Tinang facility.

The Station is staffed by six (6) American Foreign Service and one (1) PIT personnel, assigned on a rotational basis. PTS is also a significant contributor to the local economy, employing 100 direct hire and 8 contract technical and administrative personnel. In addition, a significant number of personnel of numerous diverse skills derive their employment from various services and maintenance contracts throughout two facilities.

The Management and Administrative offices are located at the 2.400 acre Tinang Transmitter facility located 85 miles north of Manila near Concepcron, Tarlac.

The Tinang Transmitter Plant includes twelve 250 kW and three 50 kW transmitters with 31 large high-gain curtain antennas suspended between towers 400 to 500 feet high. Commercial power is used to run all equipment and is obtained from a 230 kV highline through own 20-megawatt power substation. Construction of a standby 8,000,000-watt power generating plant was completed in 1995.