WAVE media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WAVE in the centre. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WAVE biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WAVE in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WAVE left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WAVE in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WAVE reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WAVE are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WAVE has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WAVE’s own report linked underneath.
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
WAVE reported it asAt least 160 killed, hundreds missing after flash floods in Nepal and China (opens WAVE in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
WAVE reported it asAt least 160 killed, hundreds missing after flash floods in Nepal and China (opens WAVE in a new tab)
Iranian state media broadcast a video that allegedly suggests how to kill Barron Trump and offers a $10 million bounty for information. The Secret Service confirmed it is aware of the video and investigating the threats.
WAVE reported it asSecret Service confirms awareness of Iranian state media video threatening Barron Trump’s life (opens WAVE in a new tab)
USS Abraham Lincoln crew endure record deployment amid food shortages and mental health crisis
Trust 96The USS Abraham Lincoln has spent over 250 days at sea without docking, the longest continuous deployment on record. Reports describe food shortages, malfunctioning toilets and sailors attempting to jump overboard. Congressional Democrats have demanded an explanation from the defence secretary.
WAVE reported it asConcern grows over conditions aboard USS Lincoln, with reports of crew members trying to jump overboard (opens WAVE in a new tab)
Hunter Biden disclosed in a BBC Newsnight interview that his father’s prostate cancer has metastasised to his bones, causing significant pain. The former US president, 83, was later seen in public wearing a dark suit and using a cane. Outlets varied in emphasis, with left-rated reports focusing on the medical details and right-rated digests noting the political context.
WAVE reported it asJoe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, son says (opens WAVE in a new tab)
President Donald Trump established the Presidential Commission on Military Spouses, appointing Jennifer Hegseth, wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as its chair. The commission will address housing, employment and education challenges for military families and submit annual recommendations to the President.
WAVE reported it asTrump signs executive order creating commission to assist with military family policies (opens WAVE in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for WAVE.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States
- Official site
- wave3.com
- Seen publishing on
- wave3.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
6 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. WAVE is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 6 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WAVE: its report arrived a median of 25 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 1 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WAVE, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where WAVE publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.