{"id":1067,"date":"2011-02-25T20:56:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2011-02-25T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T20:57:43","slug":"while-some-shortwave-broadcasters-are-leaving-china-market-one-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/while-some-shortwave-broadcasters-are-leaving-china-market-one-expands\/","title":{"rendered":"While some shortwave broadcasters are leaving the China market, one expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SoundOfHope.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-715\" title=\"SoundOfHope\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SoundOfHope.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>(Source: The Epoch Times)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;While BBC is canceling its Mandarin broadcasts in April 2011 and Voice of America (VOA) its Mandarin and Cantonese broadcasts in October 2011, <a title=\"Sound of Hope\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soundofhope.org\" target=\"_blank\">Sound of Hope Radio (SOH) Network<\/a> announced that they will be expanding short-wave broadcasting to China to meet the demands of its Chinese audience&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Epoch Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n2\/world\/sound-of-hope-bucks-the-trend-and-expands-broadcasts-to-china-51736.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story in The Epoch Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: The Epoch Times) &#8220;While BBC is canceling its Mandarin broadcasts in April 2011 and Voice of America (VOA) its Mandarin and Cantonese broadcasts in October 2011, Sound of Hope Radio (SOH) Network announced that they will be expanding short-wave broadcasting to China to meet the demands of its Chinese audience&#8221; Read full story in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[146,4082,365],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-china","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-sound-of-hope"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6357,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/epoch-times-radio-taiwan-international-dismantling-two-transmission-sites\/","url_meta":{"origin":1067,"position":0},"title":"Epoch Times: Radio Taiwan International dismantling two transmission sites?","author":"Thomas","date":"April 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: This article, from the Epoch Times,\u00a0is somewhat misleading: it appears that RTI is not actually being silenced; rather, they're merely removing sites that are retired and redundant. 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