[Boatanchors] Short Wave Broadcast Folks:

[Jim Haynes]

I sure don't know the answer, but here is my guess.  Christianity in
general, and some sects more than others, stresses doing missionary work.
Really doing missionary work is hard - you have to meet people face
to face and convince them to listen to your message.  It's much easier
to give money to other people to do the work.  And the radio preachers
convince their faithful listeners that there is a world of people out
there hungry to hear the gospel preached to them, in English yet.

In addition to short wave, there is an oversupply of religious stations
in the FM broadcast band.  Some of this may involve politics - there is
a limited number of FM frequencies in the nonprofit portion of the FM
band, and the builders of these stations may be trying to occupy all
of them to keep out NPR and other broadcasters.

jhhaynes at earthlink dot net