Broadcasting Board of Governors

Testimony of Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, Chairman Broadcasting Board of Governors before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations Committee on Government Reform February 10, 2004 Mr. Chairman, we greatly appreciate this Subcommittee

Alhurra, a new Arabic-language satellite television network, began broadcasting to millions of viewers in 22 countries across the Middle East on February 14, 2004. Alhurra (Arabic for “The Free One”) is devoted primarily to news and information. In addition to reporting on regional and international Read more »

Iranians saw riot police attack student demonstrators and heard student leaders talk of imprisonment and torture when U.S. international broadcasting’s Persian-language show, News and Views, reported on a PBS exclusive program. News and Views, a daily, live, 30-minute Voice of America (VOA) TV show, showed Read more »

Veronique Rodman, a public relations specialist and former television producer, has been appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the bipartisan, nine-member board which supervises all U.S. nonmilitary international broadcasting. President Bush nominated Rodman to the BBG on October 24, 2003, and gave her Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Dec. 22, 2003 – The Afghan services of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) are using call-in shows and live coverage to provide listeners with up-to-date news and information about the Loya Jirga assembly underway in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Read more »

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has released a 3-minute video featuring U.S. international broadcasting – radio and satellite television – to Iran. Please click to view the video. The release features the Voice of America’s (VOA) Persian television programs News and Views, a daily Read more »

Voice of America’s (VOA) Persian television programs, including a daily show that focuses on sought-after news and information, are reaching a remarkable 12 percent of Iranians over the age of 18, a new survey shows. News and Views, a 30-minute program launched only three months Read more »

Radio Sawa, the U.S. Government-funded, Arabic-language station, is the most popular international radio in Iraq’s three largest cities, with nearly half the residents tuning in on a weekly basis, a new survey shows. The survey, conducted by D3 Systems Inc., of Vienna, Va., in Baghdad, Read more »

Radio Martí will provide listeners in Cuba with live coverage of the 2003 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Florida Marlins starting this weekend. Beginning with tomorrow evening’s game from Yankee Stadium, Radio Martí will broadcast a live, play-by-play, Spanish-language feed of Read more »

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) released the following statement on October 8, 2003 in response to the “Changing Minds, Winning Peace,” report by the commission’s Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World. 1. The report demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of Read more »