Voice of America
Voice of America is an American international broadcaster funded by the United States Congress. VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 47 languages which it distributes to affiliate stations around the globe. In 2016, VOA broadcast an estimated 1,800 hours of radio and TV programming each week to approximately 236. 6 million people worldwide with about 1,050 employees and a taxpayer-funded annual budget of US$218. 5 million.
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Voice of America is an American international broadcaster funded by the United States Congress. VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 47 languages which it distributes to affiliate stations around the globe. In 2016, VOA broadcast an estimated 1,800 hours of radio and TV programming each week to approximately 236. 6 million people worldwide with about 1,050 employees and a taxpayer-funded annual budget of US$218. 5 million. The Voice of America website had five English language broadcasts as of 2014. The VOA website has versions in 46 foreign languages : The number of languages varies according to the priorities of the U.S. government and the world situation. Some commentators consider Voice ofAmerica to be a form of propaganda. It is primarily viewed by foreign audiences, so VOA programming has an influence on public opinion abroad regarding the United states and its people. Voa was established in 1942, and the VOA charter was signed into law in 1976 by President Gerald Ford. The agency is headquartered in Washington, D. C., and overseen by the. U. S. Agency for Global Media, an independent agency of the US government. It was introduced by the director of Latin American relations at the Columbia Broadcasting System, Edmund A. Chester, and he supervised the development of CBS’s extensive \”La Cadena de las Americas\” radio network to improve broadcasting to South America during the 1940s. The program was highly successful in supporting President Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of Pan-Americanism during World War II.
It included the pledge: “Today, and every day from now on, we will be with you from America on talk about the war… The news may be good for us – We will always tell you the truth.” It was actually William J-Colonel Sherwood who actually coined the term ‘The Voice Of America’ to describe the shortwave network that began its transmissions on February 1, 1942. The broadcast was called Stimmen on the Battle of the Republic of the Czech Republic and included the Pledge of Allegiance to General Hymn of the Soviet Union. The pledge was approved by President Roosevelt’s speech writer and information advisor, William Donovan, who had recommended Sherwood to him. The show was carried by 114 stations on CBS’s network in 20 Latin American nations, including Alfredo Antonini, Juan Arvizu, Eva Garza, Elsa Miranda, Nestor Mesta Chaires, Miguel Sandoval, John Serry Sr., and Terig Tucci. By 1945, broadcasts of the show were carried by114 stations onCBS’s \”La cadena de la Americas\” network in20 Latin America. The broadcasts proved to be highly successful to support President Roosevelt’s Policy of Pan Americanism throughout South America. Even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the. government’s Office of the Coordinator of Information had already begun providing war news and commentary to the commercial American shortwave radio stations for use on a voluntary basis through its Foreign Information Service.
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