"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
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Preachers, preachers, preachers.

To the best of my knowledge, WWCR is profitable. I don't think you're
going to find shortwave broadcasting to be a route to riches though.
WWCR's owners had years of experience with similar programming on
regular AM stations before they tried shortwave.


The plan the original poster presented, broadcasting into Latin America from
a Gulf State, was pretty much what WRNO tried. But, it's my impression that
big time advertisers weren't interested because they didn't know how many
people were actually listening. WRNO's rhombic antenna also put a HUGE
signal up through the Northern US Midwest and the center of Canada. They
couldn't get their commercial radio model to work, so they ended taking just
about any programming which came along. I think it was WRNO which was
embarassed into cancelling a Nazi leaning racist program which was broadcast
in German.

Frank Dresser