WORLDNET TV was folded into VOA in 2004 and no longer exists independently.

* In January 1948, the U. S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act, was passed by Congress and signed into law by U. S. President Harry Truman, placing international overseas information activities, including VOA, under an Office of International Information at the Department of State.

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.

The result of the amendments to the Act means that most US taxpayers do not know how the VOA ( and its successor agencies ) operate or what their programming content was, as was noted in 1967 by the Stanton Commission report noted above.

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 importance of al-Libi in the ranks of al-Qaeda and Taliban can also be judged from the fact that as soon his story of arrest was aired on VOA, the correspondent received death-threats from the local Taliban network in Mardan which was so far running underground.

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 ).

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.

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.

* 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.

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

Edward R. Murrow Greenville Transmitting Station, the last operational VOA broadcasting station in the US, located in North Carolina's Inner Banks.

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 ).

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

However, they are ergative – absolutive languages, and the more specific word order is intransitive VS, transitive VOA, where S and O arguments both trigger the same type of agreement on the verb.

His hit single I Can't Drive 55 came from his 1984 album VOA, produced by Ted Templeman who had also produced Hagar's first album Montrose, as well as all of Van Halen's albums up to that point.

It is known that the three angles of a triangle add up to 180 °, and the three angles of triangle VOA are:

Gonsalves, it turned out, stepped up to the wrong microphone to play his legendary solo: he stepped up to the VOA microphone and not the band's.

Hagar continued to enjoy commercial success in the 1980s, with perhaps his best-known song, " I Can't Drive 55 ", from his 1984 album VOA, reaching # 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

A 2006 VOA article cites an estimate of seven million in Burma.

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.

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

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

* 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.

A 1976 law signed by President Gerald Ford requires VOA to " serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news.

" The VOA Charter states: " VOA news will be accurate, objective and comprehensive.

VOA radio and television broadcasts are distributed by satellite, cable and on FM, AM, and shortwave radio frequencies.

VOA has more than 1, 200 affiliate and contract agreements with radio and television stations and cable networks worldwide.

Currently, the VOA and the IBB continue to operate shortwave radio transmitters and antenna farms at one site in the United States, close to Greenville, North Carolina.

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

During a VOA reporter's visit, the town's main street included a boarded-up hotel, café, hardware store, bowling alley, and a grocery store.

For example, the BBC, VOA, VOR, and Deutsche Welle have transmitted via shortwave to Africa and Asia.

In 1960 VOA gained its so-called " Charter " which required its news to be balanced.

It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.

It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.