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1. VOA_031028_04.JPG: Tanya Shen on Voice of America tour
2. VOA_031028_05.JPG: The Voice of America is Born: On February 24, 1942 -- 79 days after the United States entered World War II -- FIS beamed its first broadcast to Europe via BBC medium and long wave transmitters. Announcer William Harlan Hale opened the program -- a short, 15-minute German broadcast -- with the words: "Here speaks the voice from America." [Another sign: "The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth." -- Announced William Harlan Hale during his first VOA Broadcast.] By June 1942, VOA's broadcast operations had been transferred to the Office of War Information (OWI). Using a network of 23 transmitters, VOA broadcasters were broadcasting in 27 languages. By the end of the war, that number had increased to 41.
3. VOA_031028_12.JPG: Forerunners of the Voice of America: In 1941, the US Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) leased several private transmitters to broadcast programs to Latin America. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Foreign Information Service (FIS) in mid-1941. Roosevelt named speech writer Robert Sherwood as the first director of the FIS. Sherwood set up operations in New York City and began to make arrangements for FIS programs to be relayed by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) facilities. Sherwood asked John Houseman, the well-known author, director, and theatrical producer [who I normally think of from the movie "Paper Chase"], to take charge of the radio operations at FIS. Ironically, Houseman was not yet a US citizen, He was still classified as a Romanian, and with the outbreak of war became an enemy alien overnight. Recalling the time in his autobiography, "Front and Center," Houseman writes: "I did not mention this to Sherwood in Washington, nor did I emphasize it in the official forms I filled out for the Civil Service. If I had any secret doubts of my suitability for the post... I kept them to myself..."
4. VOA_031028_16.JPG: The Post War Years: The Debate Begins: Many VOA language services were reduced or eliminated after World War II. However, a committee of private citizens chaired by Columbia University professor Arthur McMahon advised that the US government could not be "indifferent to the ways in which our society is portrayed in other countries." Consequently, on December 31, 1945, the VOA and CIAA's broadcast services were transferred to the Department of State. Congress reluctantly voted funding for their continued operation throughout 1946 and 1947. The Need for an International Broadcast Service Takes Hold: In 1948, the Soviet Union and Soviet-controlled countries began an intensive international broadcasting campaign. The actions of communist governments, such as the Berlin blockade, played an important role in convincing US government officials and members of Congress that the United States must counter the Soviet effort. That year, Congress passed the Smith-Mundt Act, establishing the United States' international information and cultural exchange programs. The legislation covered VOA's continued operation.
5. VOA_031028_27.JPG: The Cold War: When the Korean War broke out in 1950, VOA added new language services and developed plans for construction of large transmitter sites on both the east and west coasts of the United States.
6. VOA_031028_30.JPG: A New Global Information Service: On August 1, 1953, the United States Information Agency was established. COA was transferred from the Department of State, becoming USIA's largest overseas operation. A year later, VOA moved its studios from New York to its present location [in Washington DC].
7. VOA_031028_43.JPG: VOA Programming for the 1990's and Beyond: In 1991, the Voice of America established the Affiliates and Placement Office to coordinate all VOA placement activities. The Office assists individual language services in making arrangements with affiliated stations throughout the world to carry VOA programs. A total of 1400 hours per week of programming is now available to affiliate stations via satellite. Stations can either simulcast the feeds or record them for later use.
8. VOA_031028_46.JPG: "The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth." -- Announcer William Harlan Wale during the first VOA Broadcast
9. VOA_031028_50.JPG: VOA Modernization: "The truth is mankind's best hope for a better world." -- President Ronald Reagan, September 10 1983. In 1983, COA launched a $13 billion program to rebuild and modernize VOA broadcast capabilities. By mid-1980, more than a dozen new "state-of-the-art" studios had been constructed, a new master central computer built and installed, and a Network Control Center built to coordinate and direct VOA's relay station network.
10. VOA_031028_58.JPG: Covering the Tough Issues: The Voice of America follows the guidelines of the VOA Charter, covering all news stories accurately and objectively, and presenting all sides of controversial issues. In the 1970's, VOA earned great respect both among the American press and listeners overseas for its coverage of the Vietnam War and Watergate.
11. VOA_031028_75.JPG: This display talks about VOA's "Special English" programming. Part of their effort is to teach listeners English.
12. VOA_031028_80.JPG: One of the control booths for the operation
13. VOA_031028_87.JPG: CNN seems to be a major source of news for VOA broadcasts
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Wikipedia Description: Voice of America
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Voice of America (VOA), is the official external radio and television broadcasting service of the United States federal government. Its oversight entity is the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).

VOA broadcasts by satellite and on FM, AM, and shortwave radio frequencies. It is also available through the Internet in both streaming media and downloadable formats at VOANews.com. VOA has affiliate and contract agreements with many radio and television stations and cable networks worldwide.

Transmission Facilities:

One of VOA's radio transmitter facilities was originally based on a 625-acre site in Union Township (now West Chester Township) in Butler County, Ohio, near Cincinnati. The Bethany Relay Station operated from 1944 to 1994. Other former sites include California (Dixon), Hawaii, Okinawa, Liberia, Costa Rica, and Belize.

Currently, the VOA and the IBB continue to operate shortwave radio transmitters and antenna farms at two sites in the United States, located at Delano, California and Greenville, North Carolina respectively. The Delano site is famous among radio enthusiasts for having a rare installation of a TCI HRS 12/6/1 directional curtain array antenna. They do not use FCC issued callsigns.Other radio stations on US soil are required by FCC rules to have and use callsigns.

Languages:

The Voice of America currently broadcasts in 46 languages (TV marked with an asterisk):

* Afan Oromo
* Albanian*
* Amharic
* Armenian*
* Azerbaijani*
* Bangla*
* Bosnian*
* Burmese
* Cantonese*
* Creole
* Croatian*
* Dari*
* English* (also Special English)
* French*
* Georgian
* Greek*
* Hausa
* Hindi*
* Indonesian*
* Khmer
* Kinyarwanda
* Kirundi
* Korean
* Kurdish
* Lao
* Macedonian*
* Mandarin*
* Ndebele
* Pashto*
* Persian*
* Portuguese
...More...
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