Carl wrote:
Every time one of these doomsday posts appears the creeps crawl out of the
woodwork and bad rap shortwave radio which, incidentally, is healthy and
thriving. If you look at the
article source it came from "CZ" land...so maybe in "CZ" things have changed
with domestic shortwave
but during the last year there has been countless new outlets and and
expanded shortwave coverage
appear throughout the globe.

IMHO the article is a very nice explanation why they are reducing their
shortwave broadcasts. It's spun (spinned?) that they are doing it because
everyone else is doing it, which is not really true.

Many places are doing it because there are a lot better and cheaper ways of
reaching their audience. At one time radio was the new, better and cheaper
(for the producer) way. Now there are lots of others.

BUT it does not mean that everyone, or even most producers are doing it.

Sorry guys, while you were using the internet to pirate music and video,
the rest of the world was taking over the air waves. The world really is
not all the US and the EU.

If you think so, go to Radio China's English web site and look at their
coverage and schedule, there's more there than the BBC has had in a
very long time.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM
New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or
understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.