"Kristoff Bonne" wrote in message
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Gegroet,

Frank Dresser schreef:
Satellite radio is an even better solution from the reliability and real
estate point of view.

But it's not a good solution from "independance" point of view. It's not
very hard to image what would happen if IRIB (the Iranian
state-broadcaster) would ask worldspace for a place on their system?
(to take just a random example). Would XM or Sirius be allowed to sell a
channel to (say) CRI?


I don't think there'd be any problem if XM or Sirius wanted to make a
broadcast deal with the Chinese. Radio Moscow tried to get some US stations
to broadcast their programming back about 25 years ago and at least one
station accecpted the deal.

Radio Havana might be different. The US State Department probably wouldn't
care, except the anti-Castro exiles have both a knee-jerk reaction to
anything Castro wants and a good deal of political power.



Shortwave allows a country to broadcast to almost the whole world,
directly from its own soil, without the "agreement" of the
satellite-operator and the gouvernement or the country that provides
their licence.



That's a very good point. However, such propaganda radio will be broadcast
in AM until nearly everyone in the target country has a DRM radio. Also,
it's entirely possible that direct satellite broadcast will become much
easier and more common in the future. Direct satellite propaganda
broadcasts would become a good choice if nearly everyone in a target country
has a satellite receiver. Or they might even be able to put up a satellite
which could directly broadcast on the existing FM or TV bands.

Frank Dresser