The United States International Board of Broadcasters ( IBB ) operates a major Voice of America ( VOA ) relay station in Botswana serving most of the African continent.

* In April 2011, the VOA Special English service of the Voice of America broadcast a 15-minute program on Pawnbrokers.

Voice of America ( VOA ) is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government.

VOA produces about 1, 500 hours of news and feature programming each week for an estimated global audience of 123 million people, " to promote freedom and democracy and to enhance understanding through multimedia communication of accurate, objective, and balanced news, information and other programming about America and the world to audiences overseas.

For the VOA, the main target areas for the station's shortwave broadcasts are Latin America, Cuba, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Special English is a controlled version of the English language first used on October 19, 1959, and still presented daily by the United States broadcasting service Voice of America ( VOA ).

* Voice of America ( VOA )

High school age students whose parents were stationed in other Turkish locations, those stationed in Iraklion Air Station, Crete, and the children of civilian federal employees that worked for the VOA ( Voice of America ) radio station in Xanthi, Greece now attended high school in Karamürsel.

* In May 2011, the VOA Special English service of the Voice of America broadcast a 15-minute program on Laura Hillenbrand's new book " Unbroken.

* In March 2011, the VOA Special English service of the Voice of America broadcast a 15-minute feature on Bawlmerese, written and voiced by longtime VOA Special English announcer, photographer, voice-over artist, and Baltimore native Steve Ember.

The Voice of America ( or VOA ) began broadcasting in 1942 as a result of the United States entry into World War II and was introduced with the Yankee Doodle theme that is still familiar to shortwave listeners.

According to the BBC and Voice of America ( VOA ) reports, he was riding pillion on a motorbike when he and his driver were ambushed by Pakistani agents, some of whom were wearing burqas.

The first programme linup included the Voice of America in its light VOA Europe version, BBC World Service and Deutsche Welle in German.

* Jerome Socolovsky ; Class of 1982: journalist, radio correspondent formerly with National Public Radio NPR and currently with Voice of America ( VOA ).

In September 1982, President Reagan nominated Tomlinson to be his fourth Director of the Voice of America ( VOA ), where he served through August 1984.

Kathy Whiteside now does mid-days at Lite FM in Baltimore, Johnny Dark works at WTTR AM in Westminster Maryland playing the greatest hits of all time, and Ira Melman worked for a while at WTOP-FM in DC, and now works for VOA, the Voice of America, in Washington, DC.

Because Independence Avenue forms the southern boundary of the National Mall, it is lined on the north side by several Smithsonian museums and on the south side by federal agencies, including the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA ), Department of Health and Human Services, Voice of America ( VOA ), Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ), United States Coast Guard, and the United States Department of Energy.

It broadcasts 12 hours daily as part of a 24 hour stream of programming in conjunction with Voice of America ( VOA ).

Helmi Johannes now works for the Indonesian service of the Voice of America ( VOA ), based in Washington, DC.

Basic English 2000 word list and VOA Special English 1500 word list is a dictionary for Simple English Wikipedia.

VOA Special English has multiple daily newscasts and 14 weekly features.

In some countries such as the People's Republic of China, VOA Special English is increasingly popular for junior and intermediate English learners.

The BBC and China Radio International have both used the name " Special English " for their slow speed English broadcasts, but they do not appear to have applied the full methodology of the VOA original.

The word list is over 90 % identical to that of VOA Special English.

* VOA Special English official website

* VOA Special English Words with Definitions (@ www. manythings. org )

pl: VOA Special English

Ulaanbaatar has 20 FM stations, including foreign radio stations BBC World Service, VOA, and Inner Mongolian Radio.

Typically, private broadcasters worldwide compress their material at 256kbit / s ( stereo ) while their counterparts in public broadcasting ( including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel Africa, Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, Radio Canada International, Radio Netherlands, the SABC, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, and VOA, to cite a few ) use 384 kbit / s ( although the BBC in the United Kingdom uses 128kbit / s for most of its digital radio broadcasts, the exceptions being Radio 3 and Radio 7 being broadcast at 192kbit / s and 80kbit / s respectively ).

Other stations targeted by the Soviet jammers ( but not to the same extent as RFE / RL / VOA / BBC ) included Deutsche Welle and occasionally Radio Vaticana, Kol Yisrael and Radio Canada International.

* Since the early 1960s, the practice of radio jamming has been very common in Cuba, blocking not only American government funded radio stations ( such as VOA ) but also radio stations owned and / or operated by ( or selling airtime to ) Cuban exile groups transmitting from Miami, Florida, such as La Cubanisima, Radio Mambi, WWFE La Poderosa and Cadena Azul.

Since arriving in the United States, Gongadze has worked as a TV and radio correspondent for VOA, a freelance correspondent for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, and a visiting Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D. C.

The VOA and BBC use Indonesian as their standard for broadcasting in Malay.

VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio and TV and the Internet outside of the U. S. in 43 languages.

A U. S. citizen since 1987, Jalali left his job as a broadcaster for VOA to become the Interior Minister of Afghanistan.

He has written extensively about the military of Afghanistan for scholarly journals and the mass media, in addition to reporting on Afghanistan and Central Asia for VOA for almost two decades.

* Iraq's Foreign Minister Confirms Support for New US Strategy, VOA, January 14, 2007

SPACEHAB Payloads include the Advanced X-Ray Detector ( ADV XDT ), the Advanced Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus ( ADV CGBA ), the EORF, Mechanics of Granular Materials ( MGM ) Experiment, Intra-Vehicular Radiation Environment Measurements by the Real-Time Radiation Monitor ( RME-1312 ), Space Acceleration Measurement System ( SAMS ), VOA and the Volatile Removal Assembly prototype for the ISS Water Recovery System

* Voice of America-Scan down page to History section for information about the VOA radio ship Courier.

" information produced by VOA for audiences outside the United States shall not be disseminated within the United States … but, on request, shall be available in the English language at VOA, at all reasonable times following its release as information abroad, for examination only by representatives of United States press associations, newspapers, magazines, radio systems, and stations, and by research students and scholars, and, on request, shall be made available for examination only to Members of Congress.

VOA cannot direct or intend its programs to be " for " Americans.

** Deadlock in Ballot for New Secretary General ( VOA, 11 April )