List of FM broadcast translators used as primary stations

A broadcast translator is a low-powered (maximum of 250 watts) FM radio station that retransmits the programming of a parent station that operates on a different frequency. Translators are not allowed to originate programming, and were originally designed to extend the coverage area of a primary analog FM station. In some cases a single station has multiple translators covering various geographical areas. Call signs for translators start with a "K" in the western United States, and a "W" in the east, followed by the three-digit FM channel number assigned to its operating frequency, and closing with two sequentially assigned letters.

The original rules established for translator stations by the Federal Communications Commission have been expanded to allow AM stations to operate FM translators, most commonly to expand nighttime service for stations with very low nighttime powers or which are limited to only broadcasting during daylight hours. The development of HD Radio digital sub-channels for FM stations led to a second expanded use for translators. Due to a lack of commercial receivers capable of receiving HD transmissions, a translator is now permitted to retransmit the programming of an FM station's secondary ("HD2") or tertiary ("HD3") signals. And unlike the original FM translators, an HD-relaying translator normally provides coverage for the same area as the HD transmission, and it is common for both the originating HD transmitter and its translator to be located on the same transmitting tower.

Because of the lack of HD receivers, few listeners listen to the nominally "primary" HD transmission, with the large majority of the audience actually listening via the translator's signal. This is the list of FM broadcast translators used as primary stations in the U.S. in this manner, where the programming emphasizes the translator's signal, and makes little mention of the "parent" HD signal.

Translator						FM parent station						Comment
Call sign	Freq.	City	State	Area	Moniker	Call sign	Freq.	Ch.	City	State	Market
W250BC	97.9	Atlanta	Georgia	Atlanta	"OG 97-9"	WWWQ	99.7	HD3	Atlanta	Georgia	Atlanta	Same tower as co-owned WWWQ FM 99.7, which as WNNX was original 99X
W222AF	92.3	Marietta	Georgia	Atlanta	"Comedy 92-3"	WUBL	94.9	HD3	Atlanta	Georgia	Atlanta	Airs satellite-fed 24/7 Comedy
W231CE	94.1	Lynchburg	Virginia	Madison Hts	"Talk"	WLVA	580		Lynchburg	Virginia	Lynchburg	Fox Talk
W233BF	94.5	Atlanta	Georgia	Atlanta	"Streetz 94.5"	WSTR	94.1	HD2	Smyrna	Georgia	Atlanta	Formerly on W275BK
W255CJ	98.9	Atlanta	Georgia	Atlanta	"99X"	WWWQ	99.7	HD2	Atlanta	Georgia	Atlanta	Previously "98-9 Nash Icon". Station was ordered by the FCC to cease broadcasting on April 11, 2018 pending resolution of an interference complaint by WWGA
W241AF	96.1	Rossville	Georgia	Chattanooga	"96.1 the Beat"	WUSY	100.7	HD2	Cleveland	Tennessee	Chattanooga	Formerly rebroadcast WCCV from near Atlanta
K260AM	99.9	Des Moines	Iowa	Des Moines	"Hits 99.9"	KIOA	93.3	HD2	Des Moines	Iowa	Des Moines	Both stations on same radio tower
W260CB	99.9	Detroit	Michigan	Detroit	"Soul 99 FM"	WDMK	105.9	HD2	Detroit	Michigan	Detroit	Separate radio tower in Hamtramck
W237BZ W236CA	95.3 95.1	Clayton Durham	North Carolina	Raleigh-Durham	"Alt 95.3"	WDCG	105.1	HD2	Durham	North Carolina	Raleigh-Durham	W237BZ on same radio tower as WDCG, near Apex, North Carolina (Previously "95-X")
W237DE	95.3	Harrisburg	Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	"95.3 the Touch"	WNNK-FM	104.1	HD2	Harrisburg	Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	Radio format formerly on WTCY AM 1400; both stations on same radio tower
K283CH	104.5	Houston	Texas	Houston	"104.5 KISS FM"	KTBZ-FM	94.5	HD2	Houston	Texas	Houston	Originally rock "Liquid Buzz", later "94-5 The Rock", Regional Mexican "La Mejor," and on September 7, 2017 current format
K237FR	95.3	Tumwater	Washington	Olympia	"Olympia's 95.3 KGY"	KYYO	96.9	HD2	McCleary	Washington	Seattle-Tacoma	Until 2014 relayed KGY in Olympia (now KBUP)
K224CJ	92.7	Phoenix	Arizona	Phoenix	"Oldies 92.7"	KDKB	93.3	HD2	Mesa	Arizona	Phoenix	KDKB-HD2 is a simulcast of oldies KAZG 1440 AM.