On Feb 25, 9:11*pm, Blue Streak wrote:
This may be a dumb-assed question to ask but why are there so many
fundamentalist Christian broadcasts in English on shortwave?

Well I suppose the obvious answer is because there are a lot of
interested listeners willing and able to tune into the religious
broadcasts on HF. Once upon a time the same question could have been
asked about government sponsored broadcast stations like the BBC.

Additionally, since most churches are on a tight budget the relatively
low cost of an HF broadcast allows them to cover a larger area than
would be possible with multiple FM or MW broadcasts. Finally long
range HF broadcasts would be of interest to those churches who want to
broadcast their message overseas.