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Annual Report, Summarizing the Activities of U.S BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2 ANNUAL 0 REPORT 0 3 International Broadcasting Bureau Voice of America Office of Cuba Broadcasting Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Radio Free Asia Middle East Television Network “. WITHOUT U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, Table of Contents Overview 2 Voice of America 4 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 6 Radio Free Asia 8 Office of Cuba Broadcasting 10 International Broadcasting Bureau 11 Satellite Television 12 Rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan 14 Reaching the Middle East and Iran 16 Reaching China and North Korea 18 Health Coverage Around the World 20 Profiles of Governors 22 THE VOICE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY WOULD BE MUTED.” To the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States: The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) respectfully submits its eighth annual report, summarizing the activities of U.S. international, nonmilitary broadcasting: the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, the Middle East Television Network, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting and the International Broadcasting Bureau, which houses support services for the broadcasting entities. Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Chairman The report is required by Section 305 (a) of Public Law 103-236, the Broadcasting Board of Governors U.S. International Broadcasting Act of 1994. The BBG, a bipartisan, presidentially appointed board, assumed sole supervision of U.S. international broadcasting, in accordance with the 1998 Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act (P.L. 105-277). New ways of reaching vital audiences with accurate news and information became more important than ever in 2003. Along with radio and the Internet, the BBG focused on satellite television, particularly to the Middle East and Iran, areas of high national security interest to the United States. Satellite television will be to worldwide audiences in the future what shortwave radio was in the past. We also firmly established a voice in the media war being fought for the attention of Arabic and Persian speakers with Radio Sawa and Radio Farda. Overall, the BBG is using all available technologies to reach over 100 million people in more than 60 languages, fulfilling its mission “to promote and sustain freedom and democracy by broadcasting accurate and objective news and information about the United States and the world to audiences overseas.” Without U.S. international broad- casting, the voice of freedom and democracy would be muted. Respectfully submitted, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Chairman, Broadcasting Board of Governors OVERVIEW ROUND-THE-CLOCK, day in and day out, about health, science, education, politics, the Broadcasting Board of Governors the rule of law and the status of women. (BBG) advanced the cause of freedom and democracy by broadcasting uncensored, The BBG sustained and in many cases accurate and objective news and informa- expanded audiences in key target areas, tion to millions of people around the including the Middle East, Central and world in their own languages. Within Southeast Asia, Iraq, Iran, North Korea the public diplomacy realm, the BBG and Cuba, as well as in major markets performed its journalistic mission on such as China, Russia and Africa where behalf of the American taxpayers. 40 million VOA listeners live. The Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio With a budget of $503,341,000 the BBG Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), communicated with a worldwide audience Radio/TV Martí, Radio Sawa and Radio by radio, television and the Internet. It Farda were at the center of the world’s played an important role in explaining the news events—from the war in Iraq and war on terrorism, helped counter misper- the capture of Saddam Hussein to the ceptions and untruths about the United SARS epidemic in China and the Columbia States and provided valuable information Space Shuttle disaster. BROADCASTING LANGUAGES Eurasia East Asia Armenian Circassian Burmese Eastern & Central Europe Avar Georgian Cantonese Albanian Greek Romanian Azerbaijani Russian Indonesian Bosnian Hungarian Serbian Belarusian Tatar-Bashkir Khmer Bulgarian Latvian Slovak Chechen Ukrainian Korean Croatian Lithuanian Slovene Lao Czech Macedonian Mandarin Estonian Polish Thai Tibetan Uyghur Central Vietnamese Asia Kazakh Latin Kyrgyz America Tajik Creole Turkmen Spanish Uzbek Africa South Afan Oromo Ndebele Asia Amharic Portuguese Bangla English to Africa to Africa Near East & Dari French to Africa Shona North Africa Hindi Hausa Swahili Arabic Pashto Kinyarwanda Tigrigna Kurdish Urdu 2 Kirundi Persian 2 Turkish . BROADCASTING UNCENSORED, ACCURATE AND OBJECTIVE NEWS . ACCURATE . BROADCASTING UNCENSORED, BBG Governors Kenneth BBG Mission Tomlinson Statement (left) and Norman Pattiz To promote (right) with Sheikh Abdullah and sustain Bin Zayed, freedom and Minister of Information, democracy by United Arab broadcasting Emirates. accurate and objective BROADCASTING ENTITIES news and information Broadcasting Board of about the Governors United States International Broadcasting and the world Bureau Middle East to audiences Television Network overseas. The BBG created a Middle East Television 70 percent of the population is under 30. Network, which in early 2004 launched In July, VOA launched News and Views, Alhurra, a full-service satellite television a 30-minute, nightly, Persian-language channel with newscasts, current affairs news show that immediately attracted talk shows, news updates and other infor- a strong audience. The show joined two mation programming. other VOA-TV weekly Persian products: a 90-minute call-in show and a youth news- Radio Sawa, the 24/7 Arabic-language sta- magazine. Rounding out the picture, Radio tion, became the region’s leading interna- Farda, the 24/7 station, broadcast more tional broadcaster in many markets in less than eight hours of daily news along with than two years. It both attracted a large music and cultural programs. Its website audience and fulfilled its core news mis- has received more than 10 million hits sion. In Iraq, Radio Sawa—on FM, medium- since launch. VOA Persian continued its wave (AM) and digital audio satellite—was coverage aimed at elite listeners. the most-listened-to station as the country emerged from decades of dictatorship. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the BBG added topical programs, updated formats, In order to reach a new generation of lis- revitalized its products and improved teners, the BBG dramatically refocused transmission to ensure its strategic goals and expanded programming to Iran, where were met. 3 VOICE OF AMERICA Employees: 1,212 FY 2003 Budget: $146.1 million VOA Director Weekly Hours Broadcast: Almost 1,000 David Jackson Languages: 55 FIRSTS: ■ The Persian Service added News and Views, a nightly 30-minute Persian- broadcast via radio, TV, and the THE VOICE OF AMERICA language news and Internet in 55 languages in 2003 to an estimated 94 million information TV pro- people each week. VOA provides its audience with around-the- gram transmitted clock, reliable news, balanced reporting, and informative fea- to Iran via satellite. tures. With a network of AM, FM, and TV affiliates as well as direct broadcasts, VOA focuses on countries that lack a strong ■ The Urdu independent media. Service revamped VOA’s TV programs, broadcast via a satellite network, its radio program- include original and acquired material that reflects a broad ming format to spectrum of American life along with discussions about U.S. create a music Governor Steven and news mix J. Simmons foreign and domestic policies. called Radio Aap meets with Urdu-speaking VOA audiences also are able to access the latest news and ki Dunyaa (Your VOA staff. information on the Internet at www.VOANews.com. Contin- World) to appeal to uously updated, English and foreign-language text is younger audiences. presented with photos, audio, and video. Subscrip- tions to cyberjournals—daily or weekly VOA email ■ VOA launched publications—are another popular web feature. daily programs in Shona, Ndebele Created in 1942, VOA now has a central newsroom and English for which writes more than 150 news reports a day Zimbabwe where based on information from more than 140 correspon- President Mugabe dents and freelance reporters around the world. VOA cracked down language services use these reports as a basis for on media. programming. VOA English-language broadcasts are heard worldwide. VOA’s News Now, a fast-paced mix ■ Jurnal VOA airs of news and features, is available around the clock every weekday on satellite and the Internet as well as on shortwave for 30 minutes on during select times. There is also a 24-hour satellite nationwide televi- stream devoted entirely to American music. sion in Indonesia. VOA provides programs to 1,300 affiliate radio and television stations around the world via satellite downlinks and MP3 files. 4 . RELIABLE NEWS, BALANCED REPORTING, AND INFORMATIVE FEATURES. AND INFORMATIVE . RELIABLE NEWS, BALANCED REPORTING, “I have been listening to VOA/Ukrainian for a long time. Your programs are very valuable. They are wonderful. You open the door to the world for us.” A VOA listener THE VOA CHARTER The VOA Charter, signed into law in 1976, states: 1. VOA will serve as a consis- tently reliable and authori- tative source of news. VOA news will be accurate, objec- tive, and comprehensive. 2. VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions. 3. VOA will present
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