{"id":9557,"date":"2014-05-11T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T11:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2014-05-11T07:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T11:09:47","slug":"sean-crunches-the-language-numbers-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/sean-crunches-the-language-numbers-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean crunches the language numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Gilbert,\u00a0International Editor at WRTH<\/a>, writes:<\/p>\n

I have completed my season-on-season analysis of the top 18 languages used by SW broadcasters. I chose 18 because it is the number we use in our bargraph file (odd number I know, but 18 just fits nicely and it is difficult to find many more colours that are sufficiently different from one another to be easily distinguishable in print).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"SeanGilbert-Analysis\"<\/p>\n

If you study the image [click to enlarge], you can see the how the output of various popular languages is declining with each passing season. There are a few surprises, like the 15% increase in German output this season over B13 (but the bigger picture is that it has reduced by nearly one half since B10 -when I first started this analysis). English output has been cut by over 1\/3, Spanish, Russian, Farsi, Indonesian, Portuguese and German have all reduced by about 50% from B10.<\/p>\n

A couple of languages, however, stand out as being fairly static – Chinese and Tibetan. Chinese (that is mainly Mandarin and Cantonese dialects) has reduced by a mere 5.7% since B10, and Tibetan output by less than 1%.<\/p>\n

There can be no doubt that International Shortwave Broadcasting is in its ‘twilight years’ now, but there is still a goodly amount of different programming to listen to, from a large number of stations.<\/p>\n

To emphasise that point, for the A14 season, we have the full schedules of 196 international and clan\/target broadcasters in our A14 schedules pdf file (which can be downloaded for free from the WRTH website).[…]<\/p>\n

I may, at some point in the future, delve in to my archives and see if I have any usable data that will allow me to go further back with this study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks to Sean Gilbert and the WRTH<\/a> for making this analysis available!<\/p>\n

You can pick up your copy of WRTH at Universal Radio<\/a> or Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean Gilbert,\u00a0International Editor at WRTH, writes: I have completed my season-on-season analysis of the top 18 languages used by SW broadcasters. I chose 18 because it is the number we use in our bargraph file (odd number I know, but 18 just fits nicely and it is difficult to find many more colours that are […]<\/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":[56,3,651,43,1167],"tags":[2269,1934,193],"class_list":["post-9557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-sean-gilbert","tag-world-radio-tv-handbook","tag-wrth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2u9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7665,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/sean-crunches-language-numbers-tibetan-shows-increase\/","url_meta":{"origin":9557,"position":0},"title":"Sean crunches language numbers: Tibetan shows increase","author":"Thomas","date":"October 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sean Gilbert, International Editor for the World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH),\u00a0posted the following information on WRTH's Facebook page. He has kindly given permission to share this on the SWLing Post. Sean writes: \"I have just been looking at the reductions in SW\/MW output by international broadcasters and SW output by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"WRTH2013","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WRTH2013.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13123,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/seans-a15-season-international-broadcasting-statistics\/","url_meta":{"origin":9557,"position":1},"title":"Sean’s A15 Season International Broadcasting Statistics","author":"Thomas","date":"May 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Sean Gilbert, International Editor at the World Radio TV Handbook, who is kindly sharing some international broadcasting statistics with us again. These statistics were originally posted on the WRTH Facebook group: Seasonal Language Output Comparison [F]or the top 19 languages used in international (and Domestic SW) broadcasting.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"VOA-Greenville-Curtain-Antennas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/VOA-Greenville-Curtain-Antennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/VOA-Greenville-Curtain-Antennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/VOA-Greenville-Curtain-Antennas.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/VOA-Greenville-Curtain-Antennas.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48902,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/wrth-a21-season-broadcasting-schedule-updates-available-as-free-download\/","url_meta":{"origin":9557,"position":2},"title":"WRTH A21 season broadcasting schedule updates available as free download","author":"Thomas","date":"May 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Sean Gilbert, with the World Radio TV Handbook, who shares the following announcement: WRTH is pleased to announce that the A21 (Summer) season broadcasting schedules for International and Clandestine\/Target broadcasters are now available for download, free of charge. This file is in PDF format so you will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-WRTH-1-e1612533158258.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-WRTH-1-e1612533158258.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-WRTH-1-e1612533158258.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-WRTH-1-e1612533158258.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10894,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/wrth-2015-to-ship-in-december\/","url_meta":{"origin":9557,"position":3},"title":"WRTH 2015 to ship in December","author":"Thomas","date":"September 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sean Gilbert, WRTH International Editor, just posted the following information on the\u00a0WRTH Facebook group: \"WRTH 2015 will be published, as usual, in early December. This will be the 69th Annual edition! Even though both International and Domestic SW is declining there is still a lot to be heard out there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"WRTH-Cover","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WRTH-Cover.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WRTH-Cover.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WRTH-Cover.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9496,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/wrth-2014-summer-a-season-available-for-download\/","url_meta":{"origin":9557,"position":4},"title":"WRTH 2014 Summer (A) season available for download","author":"Thomas","date":"May 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Sean Gilbert, WRTH) The WRTH Editorial team is pleased to announce that the A14 International broadcast season schedules are now available for free download from the WRTH website, navigate to:\u00a0http:\/\/www.wrth.com\u00a0and follow the links. The file is in PDF format and will require the free Adobe Acrobat reader (http:\/\/www.adobe.com). Included\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"wrth-2014","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wrth-2014.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3510,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/updates-to-the-wrth-summer-a12-schedules-are-now-available-for-download\/","url_meta":{"origin":9557,"position":5},"title":"Updates to the WRTH Summer A12 schedules are now available for download","author":"Thomas","date":"May 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) A12 schedules updates file is now available to download, free of charge, from the WRTH website. This is a comprehensive update and supplement to the printed 2012 WRTH. (Source: Sean Gilbert, WRTH) The WRTH Editorial team is pleased to announce that the Summer\/'A' season\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/WRTH2012-179x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}