Radio Netherlands made a big deal of their continuing the service when the BBC and DW dropped out, but they did the same a few years later.
I guess the Internet is the new shortwave. You can get just about all the old international services through streaming media, as well as local radio stations from around the world.
It's not the same, though. The feeling of turning the knob and not knowing what you'll find isn't there. Maybe satellite may restore some of that, maybe not.
DW also syndicates television programs over here, but it's not the same either. Radio can take an empty studio and fill it up with just words alone. German TV, by contrast, looks pretty sterile.
And you haven’t lived until you listened to a Radio Tirana broadcast back in the day.