Wood J. History of International Broadcasting, Volume 2

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2000. — 292 p.In my previous book History of international broadcasting I attempted to encompass the history of international radio broadcasting in a single volume. However, history is constantly being made and, momentous as the four decades of the cold war were - with shortwave broadcasting emerging as a major force - that history is now matched by what has since happened in the former Soviet Union and some countries in Eastern Europe. During the cold war no one could have predicted that in the not-too-distant future Western broadcasters such as Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, the BBC World Service and at least one religious broadcaster would be leasing airtime
on Soviet-built transmitters and have access to some of the former Soviet Union's most powerful SW transmitter facilities in the world, which were once used for jamming Western broadcasts. Yet this is exactly what has happened and these Western broadcasters are now able to target China and other countries in Asia with increased audibility.