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  FBIS Radio Stations of the World: AM, FM, SW, TV

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  Foreign Broadcast Information Service from the CIA (50 volumes available)

The FBIS "Stations of the World" books were regular publications consisting of a set of volumes  listing all the world's radio stations. They were issued roughly every two years. Part I was by Country and City order, Part II was by Frequency and Part III was by station Name and Slogan. In 1955, a part IV was initiated, showing TV and FM stations. .
   
 
 FBIS 30th Anniversary booklet from 1971 with foreword by Richard Nixon. Click to view FFBIS: The first 5 years from 1942 to 1947 from a former staff member
 
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FBIS History
1941-1947
FBIS History
1957-1967
 
Who published the lists?
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service was part of the Central Intelligence Agency. It exemplified, in the opinion of many, national intelligence at its best, informing both senior policy makers and the nation as a whole with its daily collection, translation, and publication of thousands of foreign media reports. The station lists were a small part of its work; some considered them a byproduct of the FBIS monitoring efforts.
Wikipedia Says:

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source intelligence component of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology. It monitored, translated, and disseminated within the U.S. government openly available news and information from media sources outside the United States. Its headquarters was in Rosslyn, Virginia 38.8947°N 77.0717°W, later Reston, Virginia 38.955°N 77.359°W, and it maintained approximately 20 monitoring stations worldwide. In November 2005, it was announced that FBIS would become the newly formed Open Source Center, tasked with the collection and analysis of freely available intelligence.[1]

The CIA Official History
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/foreign-broadcast-information-service/index.html

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Stations by:
1953 Part I Country and City
  Part II Frequency Order
  Part III Name & Slogan
1955  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III  Calls & Name 
  Part IV TV & FM
1957  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III  Calls & Name 
  Part IV  TV & FM
1959  Part I Country and City
Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III  Calls & Name 
  Part IV TV & FM
1960  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III Calls & Name
  Part IV TV & FM
1963   Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III  TV & FM
1965  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III  FM Stations
  Part IV TV Stations
1967  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III  FM Station
  Part IV TV Stations
1968  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III  FM Stations
  Part IV TV Stations
1969  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III   FM Stations
  Part IV TV Stations
1971 Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency Order
  Part III   FM Stations
  Part IV TV Stations
1972  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency
  Part III   FM Stations
  Part IV TV Stations
1974  Part I Country and City
  Part II  Frequency
  Part III   FM Stations
  Part IV TV Stations