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\"radio_vaticana\"<\/a>Check out Jonathan Mark’s blog Critical Distance<\/em> for his take on why many shortwave broadcasters have failed over the years.<\/p>\n

Hint: the same is true for any broadcaster regardless of delivery medium–content is king<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out Jonathan Mark’s blog Critical Distance for his take on why many shortwave broadcasters have failed over the years. Hint: the same is true for any broadcaster regardless of delivery medium–content is king. Click here to read the full post.<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,960,43],"tags":[2372,246,4082],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-shortwave-radio","tag-critical-distance","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2fY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8126,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/jonathan-comments-on-the-efficacy-of-deutsche-welles-global-media-forum\/","url_meta":{"origin":8678,"position":0},"title":"Jonathan comments on the efficacy of Deutsche Welle’s Global Media Forum","author":"Thomas","date":"December 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Marks writes: \"Shortwave radio stations rarely did public events in my day as editor in chief. 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