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Broadcasting
Board of Governors reorganization of U.S. international broadcasting
effective FY 2007 (October 1, 2006) (implementation
delayed pending approval of federal budget) |
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Language |
VOA |
RFE/RL |
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Albanian |
Radio eliminated;
television continues |
Radio
continues |
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Bosnian |
Radio
eliminated; television continues |
RFE/RL
South Slavic radio continues |
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Croatian |
Eliminated |
RFE/RL
South Slavic radio continues |
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Dari |
Add
one-hour television program |
Not mentioned
by BBG; radio presumably continues. |
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English
(News Now) |
Radio
eliminated; English text on voanews.com continues |
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English
(Special) |
Continues |
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English
to Africa |
Continues |
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Georgian |
Eliminated |
Continues |
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Greek |
Eliminated |
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Hindi |
Radio
eliminated; television continues |
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Macedonian |
Radio
eliminated; television continues |
Eliminated |
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Pashto |
Add
one-hour television program; enhance radio transmission to border region of
Afghanistan |
Not mentioned
by BBG; radio presumably continues. |
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Persian |
TV
expands to 4 hours per day |
Radio
Farda website enhanced |
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Russian |
Radio
eliminated; television continues |
Eliminate
6 hours per day of direct radio transmission to pursue FM rebroadcasting
strategy |
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Serbian |
Radio
eliminated; television continues |
RFE/RL
South Slavic radio continues |
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Spanish |
Add
television news magazine 5 days a week |
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Thai |
Eliminated |
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Turkish |
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Zimbabwe |
Radio
program funding transferred from USAID to BBG |
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Radio
Sawa |
Alhurra |
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Arabic |
Add
customized local news content and coverage |
Increase
news coverage from 16 to 24 hours a day |