Voice of America

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Every week, more than 206 million listeners, viewers, and Internet users around the world turn on, tune in, and log on to U.S. international broadcasting programs.While the “Broadcasting Board of Governors” is the legal name given to the federal entity encompassing all U.S. international broadcasting services, the day-to-day broadcasting activities are carried out by the individual BBG international broadcasters: the Voice of America (VOA), Alhurra, Radio Sawa, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), and Radio and TV Martí, with the assistance of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).

Voice of America produces popular news, information and cultural programs in 45 languages and reaches more than 164 million people around the world every week on television, radio, web and mobile platforms.VOA is the largest of the BBG’s networks, and attracts 80 percent of the total U.S. international media audience. In countries with strict censorship, such as Iran or North Korea, VOA is often the only source of balanced news and information about the U.S., its policies and its people.

VOA provides a forum for open debate, as well as an opportunity to question newsmakers and U.S. officials, through call-in shows and web interactives. Its programs are guided by a legally mandated Charter that requires them to be accurate, objective and comprehensive. From its Washington headquarters, VOA produces more than 70 television shows, and more than 200 radio programs. VOA’s digital TV master control sends signals to multiple direct-to-home satellite networks simultaneously, and shortwave, FM and AM transmitters beam VOA to hot spots around the world. Individual language services each maintain their own websites, mobile platforms and social media sites.

VOA reaches a significant part of its audience on affiliate stations that rebroadcast its programs or receive live updates from VOA reporters. This affiliate network now includes more than 2,350 individual stations, which air a wide variety programs. In Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, more than 300 affiliates carry VOA programs. And VOA now reaches more than 26 million adults in Latin America, thanks to an ever-expanding affiliate network that stretches from Mexico to Chile.

You can find additional information about BBG and VOA here: http://www.bbg.gov/broadcasters/