I am 34 and have been listening to shortwave broadcasts since early
80s. I live in Istanbul, Turkey. My favorite was listening to pirate
radios and radio liberty broadcasts to central asia. In cold war
years, there were so many pirate radios targeting Turkey. Recently, as
far as I know, there is no pirate station on AM in Turkish. I think it
is because of more democracy we have. Almost every opininon can be
declared easily in newspapers, private radios stations etc. when
compered with 80s. Probably, that's one of the reasons why the number
of shortwave broadcasters decreases all over the world, more widely
accepted democracy. Another reason is the ideas and ideologies of the
people are not completely different, again when compered with 80s.
Hence, they don't have the desire to declare their own ideas. So far,
Capitalism won the war and the need to long distance shortwave
broadcasts decreased (an example: A unique interpretation of
communism lived in Albania before the collapse of communism and radio
tirana had a very powerful 3-4 hours of daily radio broadcast in
Turkish which could be listened all over Turkey like a local radio.
Now, r. tirana broadcasts in turkish is for 30 minitues. Because, they
don't have different things to tell to the world...

"Brian" wrote in message hlink.net...
I was listening to Alan Weiner World Wide earlier and his topic was the WBCQ
listener demographic. As I listened to those calling in, it was apparent
that everyone was, for the most part, forty and over. I am twenty five and I
wonder what the average is here on this group.


Brian