RadioStationDex — US Radio & TV Station Directory Built on FCC Data
Every FCC-licensed broadcaster — FM, AM and television — catalogued with technical specs, coverage and format.
A directory for the American airwaves
Looking up an American broadcaster's exact frequency, coverage area or format used to mean digging through FCC technical filings. RadioStationDex repackages those filings as a browsable directory where every station has its own page — useful to a listener checking what's on air in their city and to an industry professional verifying licence data.
It sits in my own product portfolio: the business, the code and the SEO strategy are all mine.
What the directory does
- Instant lookup by call sign, city or frequency from any page on the site.
- Station pages combining technical details, coverage area and format information.
- State browsing with station counts per territory — 5,646 in California, 3,098 in Florida, and so on.
- Service split across FM, AM and TV, each tallied separately.
- Stats section aggregating the whole index.
- Blog with supporting editorial about broadcasting.
Dataset and reach
The homepage counters break the inventory down: 73,186 total stations — 28,560 FM, 10,015 AM and 34,611 TV — on FCC broadcast data refreshed weekly. Beyond the US states, the territory list also carries Canadian and Mexican stations found in the records.
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The engineering underneath
A 73,000-page directory isn't laid out by hand — it's generated. RadioStationDex is a custom Laravel + PHP application over MySQL, tuned so tens of thousands of station, state and city pages resolve fast, with zero plugins involved.
Organic growth is driven by programmatic SEO: titles, meta descriptions, structured data and internal links are produced automatically for every station and territory page.
What the project shows
- Normalization: FCC technical filings reshaped into station pages any listener can read.
- Automation: 73,000 station pages generated and refreshed weekly without manual editing.
- Repeatable architecture: the same directory pattern transfers to any sector with structured data.
FAQ
How many stations does RadioStationDex list?
73,186 stations in total — 28,560 FM, 10,015 AM and 34,611 TV — each with technical details, coverage area and format information.
How fresh is the underlying data?
The FCC broadcast records the directory is built on are updated weekly.
What are the ways to look up a station?
Search by call sign, city or frequency, or browse the state pages; every station page gathers the technical and format data in one place.
Is the directory strictly US-only?
US stations make up the bulk of the index, though Canadian and Mexican stations present in the records are listed too, with per-territory counts.