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[HCDX] VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reduce broadcasts in Ukraine
VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reduce broadcasts in
Ukraine
http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-183545.html
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,
according to the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
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.
The proposal includes enhancements the agency believes are pivotal to
promoting freedom and democracy and enhancing understanding in
key regions. They include:
[1] Establishing a 10-hour coordinated stream of Voice of America
(VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) daily programming to North Korea.
[2] Launching a daily three-hour live Alhurra television program
produced and broadcast from the Middle East.
[3] Continuing VOA`s Somali Service`s 30 minute daily radio broadcast
scheduled to launch February 12, 2007, to the millions of Somali
speakers in Somalia, Djibouti and the greater Horn of Africa.
[4] Improving Radio and TV Marti'`s reach into Cuba through additional
transmission capability and enhancing the production of the
programming. VOA programming to Cuba would be increased to 7
days a week.
The budget also fully funds initiatives begun in FY 2006 to critical
Muslim audiences. These include the expansion of VOA television to
Iran to a 12 hour stream, VOA Pashto radio programming to the
Afghanistan/Pakistan border region, television programs to
Afghanistan and Pakistan and Alhurra Europe, the 24/7 service to
Arabic speakers in Europe.
To fund these initiatives and mandatory cost increases, the request
proposes the following savings: elimination of VOA and RFA
broadcasts in Cantonese as well as VOA Uzbek.
Reductions to the following:
[1] Ukrainian broadcasts by both VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty (RFE/RL);
[2] Tibetan broadcasts by VOA and RFA;
[3] VOA Portuguese to Africa; and
[4] broadcasts in Romanian, South Slavic and Kazakh by RFE/RL.
Other savings will come from reductions in support services.
The FY 2008 request also includes several enhancements and
reductions requested in FY 2007. These include funds to increase
Alhurra`s live news capacity to 24 hours a day; expansion of VOA
Spanish language programming to Venezuela; additional transmission
capabilities for RFE/RL Russian and RFA Korean broadcasts and
increased funding for employee training and award programs.
Proposed reductions for FY 2007 included in the FY 2008 request
include eliminating VOA broadcasts in Croatian, Greek, Georgian and
Thai as well as RFE/RL broadcasts in Macedonian.
The request includes eliminating VOA radio broadcasts but continuing
television programming in the following languages: Serbian, Albanian,
Bosnian, Macedonian, Hindi and Russian.
The proposal also calls for discontinuing 14 hours a day of VOA
NewsNow English broadcasts while maintaining VOA`s English to
Africa and Special English services and continuing to strengthen VOA
English on the Internet.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors is an independent federal
agency which supervises all U.S. government-supported, non-military
international broadcasting, including The Voice of America (VOA);
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL); the Middle East
Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa); Radio Free Asia
(RFA); and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and TV Marti').
Through its broadcast services, the BBG provides the United States
and its leaders direct and immediate access to a worldwide audience of
140 million people. Current governors are Chairman Kenneth Y.
Tomlinson, Joaquin F. Blaya, Blanquita W. Cullum, D. Jeffrey
Hirschberg, Edward E. Kaufman, Steven J. Simmons, and Mark
McKinnon. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice serves as an ex officio
member.
This news was monitored by the Action Ukraine Monitoring Service for
the Action Ukraine Report (AUR), Morgan Williams, SigmaBleyzer,
Editor.
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