Reply #13: Could probably lease one [View All]

[Armstead]

A lot of the right wing nutjobs and radio preachers lease transmitter time on stations like WWCR in Nashville.

I've often wondered why the left can't do the same. Some of them are pretty cheap to buy time on I believe. (And since Dr. Gene Scott died, there might be a big whole opening up in the market.)

Technically, being on a big Shortwave boomer is the next best thing to being on a big AM boomer. You can pick up strong shortwave stations as easily as a regular AM station on a cheap portable.

(They get over the legal limitations by saying they're broadcasting to Europe from the southern US.)

The closest thing to a progressive shortwave station is Radio for Peace International in Costa Rica. But they had a scungy signal, and then got booted off the air and involved in some legal battle with the University for Peace. (Oh the irony.)

http://www.rfpi.org/


However, the shortwave audience is small, so as far as reaching a broader audience it has its limitations.

But if a way to get cheap radios into the hands of specific groups of people, it could be a populist progressive alternative to sattelite radio.