"Broadcasting Budget Strengthens Targeted Programming" - press release, Broadcasting Board of Governors (Washington, DC), 5 February 2007
The proposed fiscal year 2008 budget for U.S. international broadcasting calls for an overall increase of 3.8% from the anticipated fiscal year 2007 level that strengthens targeted programming to provide essential access to news and information to critical audiences. The budget proposal is also aimed at increasing overall audience reach around the world by utilizing the latest technology and strengthening transmission capability.
Of the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) $668.2 million request, $142.4 million is allocated for programming to the Near East, South, Central Asia and Eurasia, $116 million for Arabic language programming, $67.2 million for East Asia, $45 million for Latin America and $13.6 million for Africa....
In sum, broadcasts to these countries, regions, and publics would be increased:
- North Korea (VOA and RFA)
- Middle East (Alhurra TV)
- Somalia (VOA)
- Cuba (Radio and TV Marti and VOA)
- Iran (VOA)
- Afghanistan and Pakistan (VOA)
- Arabic-speaking audiences in Europe (Alhurra in Europe)
- Venezuela (VOA)
- Russian ('additional transmission capabilities') (RFE/RL)
These broadcast services would be reduced:
- Ukrainian (VOA and RFE/RL)
- Tibetan (VOA and RFA)
- Portuguese to Africa (VOA)
- Romanian (RFE/RL)
- 'South Slavic' (RFE/RL)
- Kazakhstan (RFE/RL)
- English-language programming (VOA) - 'NewsNow' English broadcasts would end but Special English, English to Africa, and VOA English on the Internet would continue
These services would be eliminated:
- Cantonese (VOA and RFA)
- Uzbekistan (VOA)
- Croatian (VOA)
- Greek (VOA)
- Georgian (VOA)
- Thai (VOA)
- Macedonian (RFE/RL)
VOA would eliminate radio service but continue television broadcasting in Serbian, Albanian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Hindi and Russian.
Also see:
"US-Funded Voice of America Broadcaster Revives Somali Service," by Laurent Thornet - AFP (Washington, DC), 1 Febraury 2007
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US-funded broadcaster Voice of America is reviving a Somali radio program for the Horn of Africa as it expands its service in a volatile region that has become a front in the US "war on terror."
The Somali-language service returns to the airwaves on February 12. Its last broadcast was in 1994 after the pullout of US troops whose mission in lawless Somalia was marked by the death of 18 soldiers in Mogadishu....
VOA officials said the daily Somali service aims to bring comprehensive news and analyses to a region straddling the Islamic and Christian worlds whose stability is considered vital to US interests.
"The region is just as important, if not more so, to the strategic interests of this country as it has ever been," VOA director Dan Austin told AFP.
"And the need for honest, straight reporting has never been greater," Austin said. "The opportunities for misinformation and disinformation out there are much greater today than they were in the early 1990s."
VOA already broadcasts in three regional languages -- Amharic, Afan Oromo and Tigrigna -- for Ethiopia and Eritrea in addition to programs in English in Sudan, Swahili in Kenya and English and French in Djibouti....
"US to Step Up Broadcasts Into North Korea, Iran, Cuba" by P. Parameswaran - AFP (Washington, DC), 5 February 2007
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States is to step up its government-backed broadcasting campaigns in North Korea, Iran and Cuba, under President George W. Bush's new budget plans unveiled....
Funds for international broadcasting, including via the Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA), are expected to increase 3.8 percent to 668.2 million dollars from the 2007 level.
The new plans would include expanding to 10 hours the "coordinated stream" of VOA and RFA daily programming to North Korea and to 12 hours the VOA television programming to Iran, said the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees US government-funded international broadcast channels.
At present, VOA broadcasts three and half hours of radio a day to North Korea while RFA broadcasts four hours per day to the Stalinist nation, Board spokesman Larry Hart told AFP....
Although radios are controlled by North Korea and fixed to a single propaganda channel, defectors from that country claim the number of radios smuggled from abroad may have increased substantially, US officials say.
The US government will also step up transmission capability and program production of Radio and TV Marti, the Miami-based government broadcasting outlets directed at another foe, Cuba, the board said....
The budget increase would also cover initiatives to critical Muslim audiences, Hart said.
They include VOA Pashto radio programming to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, television programs to Afghanistan and Pakistan and Alhurra Europe, the round-the-clock service to Arabic speakers in Europe.
"Threat to VOA Uzbek Service" - News Briefing Central Asia (NBCentralAsia), Institute for War and Peace Reporting (London), 16 February 2007
If Voice of America’s Uzbek language service is shut down, the Uzbek-speaking population throughout Central Asia will be cut off from alternative media sources, according to media watchers in the region....
TV broadcasts of VOA in the Uzbek language are available throughout Uzbekistan via satellite and are transmitted by local terrestrial channels in southern Kyrgyzstan.
A source in the Uzbek service told NBCentralAsia that VOA is available on shortwave radio in Uzbekistan, despite regular attempts by the authorities to block broadcasts. Kyrgyzstan also broadcasts the service to one part of the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan on FM.
NBCentralAsia political analyst Avez Baburov says that closing the Uzbek service will take away one of the few alternative sources of information for 25 million Uzbek speakers across Central Asia....
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