Any new shortwave stations?

[BoomboxDX]

I knew about the prohibition against broadcasting to domestic audiences; I thought I'd read in a SW magazine in the 1980's that they also couldn't run actual commercials, but I probably read it wrong.

[Tom S]

I've never heard that before.  Ever since I started listening to shortwave 24 years ago shortwave stations like WWCR have run commercials.

[ff]

WWCR used to run bookoo spots in the 90s.  Tom Valentine's Radio Free America would run numerous ads for The Spotlight newspaper and for his own Carotec supplements company.  Numerous agency spots used to run on WRNO back in the 90s for Purex, Fruit & Fiber cereal, et al.  If there is a prohibition on SW advertising it has only recently come about.  I haven't heard of one.

[Nella F.]

WWCR used to run bookoo spots in the 90s.  Tom Valentine's Radio Free America would run numerous ads for The Spotlight newspaper and for his own Carotec supplements company.  Numerous agency spots used to run on WRNO back in the 90s for Purex, Fruit & Fiber cereal, et al.  If there is a prohibition on SW advertising it has only recently come about.  I haven't heard of one.

The local library used to subscribe to Spotlight... though maybe it was a "gift subscription". Anyone remember Valentine's interviews? One of some guy named Craig or Greg Hullit or something like that? Some sort of conspiracy peddler. Right up V.'s alley.      

[BoomboxDX]

Come to think of it, they did have some spots on some of the stations. 

But there was a period of time (1991-2002) I did very little listening to Shortwave (aside from Radio Turkey), so my memory of SW broadcasters during that period is pretty limited.