Far East Broadcasting Company has begun construction on a ministry center in the Cambodian capital that will house studios for radio, podcast and video production, the broadcaster said in an announcement on Sept. 1.
Staff, ministry partners and board members gathered at the site for a groundbreaking and prayer ceremony, FEBC said. The building will serve Voice of Love, the organization's Cambodian ministry, and construction is expected to take roughly 12 to 15 months.
The project follows a broadcast expansion completed last year. A new tower and transmitter that entered service in mid-2025 gave FEBC the potential to reach about 80% of Cambodia's population by radio, the organization said. The center is intended to build on that reach by adding production capacity for streaming, digital audio and video, and by providing space to meet listeners in person.
"This is about much more than constructing a building," said Ed Cannon, president and CEO of FEBC USA. "Radio remains an extraordinarily important part of how we reach people, but today we also have opportunities through streaming, social media, podcasts, video and personal relationships that our founders could never have imagined."
Plans for the facility include expanded production space for both traditional broadcasting and audio and video podcasts. The ground floor is to include meeting rooms where FEBC can receive listeners, run conferences and training sessions, and make space available to partner organizations.
FEBC described the meeting space as central to how it wants to work in Cambodia — connecting listeners with local believers and churches and creating occasions for people to respond in person, rather than relying on broadcast alone.
"Our desire is to be close to the listener," said Samphal Makara, national ministry director for FEBC Cambodia. "With the new tower, we can reach more people across Cambodia. With this new Ministry Center, we will have the space and technology to serve those listeners in new ways."
The organization said the project was financed by donors, with Northwestern Media providing engineering and technical consultation along with financial support. Scott Jones of Northwestern Media said in the announcement that the combination of engineering work and technology would help the Cambodian team "reach and serve more people for generations to come." No construction cost was disclosed.
Construction is taking place during FEBC's 80th anniversary year. The organization was founded in 1946 and now distributes programming through terrestrial radio, digital audio, streaming, social media and video. Comparable expansion projects are in discussion or design stages in other countries where FEBC operates, according to the broadcaster, which did not name them.
"The technology will continue to change," Cannon said. "There will undoubtedly be ways of communicating 10 or 20 years from now that we cannot even imagine today. We want to build facilities and equip our national teams so they are ready to use those platforms when they arrive."
