CX 46 Radio America broadcasts religious talk, spiritual music, and Christian programming in Spanish from Montevideo, Uruguay, on 1450 AM, known locally by the nickname "El Faro," the lighthouse. You can stream it live and free on Radio Shuffle from anywhere in the world.
A Station Older Than Uruguayan Television
Radio América traces its roots back to 1942, when it first went on air in Montevideo, according to Wikipedia's entry on the station. That puts CX 46 among the older surviving stations on Uruguay's AM dial, broadcasting for more than eight decades from a country that was one of the earliest adopters of radio in Latin America.
A Lighthouse on the Dial
The station's nickname, El Faro, or "the lighthouse," fits its religious identity directly. Uruguayan listeners searching for the station online frequently find it labeled as "CX 46 Radio América, El Faro" on social platforms tied to evangelical ministries in the country, a name that positions the station as a guiding light for its Christian audience rather than just another AM frequency in a crowded Montevideo dial.
Part of a Century-Old Broadcasting Tradition
CX 46 operates within a Uruguayan radio industry with deep institutional roots. The country's first broadcasts date back to 1921 and 1922, and by July 20, 1933, radio entrepreneurs meeting on the fourth floor of the Palacio Salvo founded the Asociación Nacional de Broadcasters Uruguayos, or ANDEBU, becoming the second national broadcasting association in the world after the United States' NAB. ANDEBU members later helped found Uruguay's first television station in 1956, and the association remains the industry body representing private radio and television broadcasters in the country, including stations like CX 46 that trace back to Uruguay's earliest radio decades.
A Religious Voice in a Changing Landscape
CX 46's Christian format also fits into a longer story of Protestant and evangelical growth in Uruguay. German Lutheran immigrants began arriving as early as 1840, and later waves of immigrants from Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Brazil, and Romania broadened the country's Protestant presence over the following century. Pentecostal churches in particular expanded fast in the twentieth century, with Uruguay counting roughly seventy Pentecostal denominations by 1980. A station built around religious talk and spiritual music speaks directly to that community, giving it a dedicated frequency in a country whose broadcasting history and religious history have been developing side by side for generations.
Tune In
More than eighty years after it first signed on in Montevideo, CX 46 Radio America still broadcasts as El Faro, a religious station carrying Uruguay's evangelical and Christian community on 1450 AM. Stream it free on Radio Shuffle to hear a station shaped by one of Latin America's longest continuous radio traditions.