I get the feeling the Chinese will run all of the programming but who knows.
>> I get the feeling the Chinese will run all of the programming but who knows. <<
If so, nobody — but nobody — will listen more than a few brief minutes. Believe me. I pick up CRI quite often via satellite, and the programming is boring, boring, boring.
Ditto for the English language “Voice of Russia” — which is now carried full-time, 24/7, on AM 1390 in the WashDC area. Like that of CRI, VOR’s programming is mostly prattle by announcers with dull monotone voices, droning on endlessly about inconsequential, boring stuff. It’s about as interesting as watching paint dry.
In the meantime, the stations’ very savvy American owners must be raking in TONS of cash from the propaganda bureaucrats of Russia and China. These benighted functionaries are probably telling their bosses that they’ve pulled off some of the biggest PR coups of all times, while I’ll bet the stations have something like the lowest Arbitron ratings of any broadcasters in their respective DMA’s.
In other words, cash is still king, and capitalism triumphs once more!