Broadcasting Board of Governors reorganization of U.S. international broadcasting effective FY 2008 (October 1, 2007)

 

Language

VOA

RFE/RL, RFA, or Radio TV Marti

Cantonese

Eliminated

Eliminated

Kazakh

Reduced

 

Korean

Expand to ten hour coordinated stream with RFA

Expand to ten hour coordinated stream with VOA

Pashto

Add Pashto to Afghanistan/Pakistan border

 

Persian

Television expanded to 12 hour stream

 

Portuguese to Africa

Reduced

 

Romanian

 

Reduced

Somali

Recently resumed broadcasts to continue

 

South Slavic

 

Reduced

Spanish

Add television programming for Venezuela

For Radio/TV Martí: additional transmission capability, enhance program production

Tibetan

Reduced

Reduced

Ukrainian

Reduced

Reduced

Uzbek

Eliminated

Continues

Transmission

Reduce transmission network

“Improved” for RFE/RL and RFA

 

Radio Sawa

Alhurra

Arabic

Enhanced news coverage

Enhanced news coverage

Arabic

 

Add European stream