Editing International broadcasting (section)

=== Today ===
At the end of the [[Cold War]], many international broadcasters cut back on hours and foreign languages broadcast, or reemphasized other language services. For example, in 1984, Radio Canada International broadcast in English, French, German, Spanish, Czech/Slovak, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. In 2005, RCI broadcast in English, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Spanish. There is a bigger trend towards TV (e.g. BBC World News, NHK World, CCTV-9) and news websites.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} 

Some services, such as Swiss Radio International, left shortwave altogether and exist in Internet form, [[Swissinfo]]. Radio Canada International ceased shortwave broadcasting in 2012 becoming a purely online service producing podcasts and maintaining a website in several languages.<ref>{{cite news|title=Radio Canada International goes off-air, moving online-only after 67 years of shortwave service|url=http://j-source.ca/article/radio-canada-international-goes-air-moving-online-only-after-67-years-shortwave-service|access-date=June 6, 2013|newspaper=J-Source|date=June 25, 2012|archive-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701143352/http://www.j-source.ca/article/radio-canada-international-goes-air-moving-online-only-after-67-years-shortwave-service|url-status=dead}}</ref> Radio Netherlands ceased broadcasting in 2012 and was transformed into [[RNW Media]], an [[NGO]] that trains youth in developing countries to use [[digital media]] for social change.<ref>https://www.rnw.media/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> Radio Moscow's successor, [[Voice of Russia]], was disbanded in 2014 and replaced by [[Sputnik (news agency)|Sputnik]], a multimedia news platform, which does not broadcast on shortwave.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30040363</ref> Other shortwave broadcasters have [[List of shortwave radio broadcasters|ceased operations entirely]] since the 1990s.<ref name="WRTH">{{cite web |title=World Radio TV Handbook |url=https://www.wrth.com/ |website=wrth.com |publisher=WRTH Publications Ltd. Radio Data Center GmbH |access-date=19 October 2023}}</ref><ref name="SWI">{{cite web |title=Short Wave Info |url=https://www.short-wave.info/ |website=short-wave.info |access-date=19 October 2023}}</ref>

In addition, new standards, such as [[Digital Radio Mondiale]], are being introduced, as well as sending programs over the Web to be played back later, as "[[podcast]]s".{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

International broadcasting using the traditional audio-only method will not cease any time soon due to its cost efficiencies. However, international broadcasting via television is considered more strategically important at least since the early 2000s.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

The [[BBC World Service]] was the first broadcaster to consider setting up a satellite television news and information channel as far back as 1976, but ceded being the first to [[CNN]] (that had primary access to [[Canada]] soon after launch). The defunct BBC World Service [[Antigua]] Relay Station was built in 1976, but its setup costs were not known to have been part of the BBCWS decision processes at the time.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

In the early 1990s, many international (as well as domestic) 24-hour news and information channels launched as part of the post-[[Cold War]] prosperity bubble. There was another burst of global news channels launching in the late 2000s as part the developing world trying to catch up with the developed world in this area.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}