[Boatanchors] Short Wave Broadcast Folks:

[David Stinson]

I know there are some folks here who worked in SWBC.
As you know, most of it's gone now. |
But there are still a few big stations out there in the 
U.S. running multiple 100KW transmitters 24/7 and 
all they broadcast is religious "fringe" material.
One old guy who claims to have a personal 
hot-line to God is on several of these all day, 
every day.

I do not understand the economics of running 
these stations. They've got big maintenance costs,
staffing and monster electric bills, yet one source 
tells me that the "Jesus Radio" audience runs about
200 people on a good day and many hours with 
no one listening at all. The charge for hours of
programming on these stations isn't very high,
but 24/7 can amount to a lot each month.

I don't get it. The math just "don't add-up."
How do these stations afford this?
Surely "Brother Stair" doesn't get enough from 
the 200 people listening to him to support
multiple 100KW transmitters, 24/7?
What am I missing here?

73 Dave AB5S