nos... wrote (in part):

Where is the business model of shortwave broadcasting?

Jamie
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"Business model"?
What "business model".

It is one of the few ways for most governments to
get their version of the "TRUTH" to the world.
Good PR/propaganda , you decide which is which,
is priceless.

I had a chance to talk with a engineer who left the USSR
befroe the meltdown and he told that "Radio Free Eurpoe"
was a "God send". His words not mine. I suspect the RFE,
VOA, and all the other hostile SW stations didn't help the
party control the people. Look at how hard the PRC is working
to control access to "hostile", IE truthfull or non communist,
internet outlets.
In NK tit is a captial offense to have a tunable radio. The only
legal ones are crystal controlled, locked to government stations.
A friend works with a NGOfood outfit and she told me that she
always carries a SW radio with her when she goes into the wild.
NK Customs had a s-fit. She thought they were going to arest her
on the spot, instead the labeled her persona-non-grata and sent
back to china on the same plane she came in on. And they destroyed
her radio before letting her go.

Given the time, resources and money required, I am assuming that
places who wish/need to control their populations must find it
reasonable
to go to all that trouble to limit outside influence.

The only SW outles with any sort of "bussines model" must be the church
based ones. They must find it worth while to spend the money.

Terry