A senior Republican member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) publicly questioned the BBG decision to end Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to Tibet. At an open BBG meeting Thursday, Ambassador Victor Ashe said that he and other board members received numerous protests about the proposed cut of VOA Tibetan radio programs. Ashe [...]
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has offered an amendment to “H.R. 1410: Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2011″ designed to prevent the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) from reducing Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) radio broadcasts to Vietnam. The BBG wants to minimize VOA Vietnamese radio broadcasts and to eliminate positions of [...]
BBG Watch News Commentary Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-NC) is asking the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to modernize the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station in Greenville, North Carolina, but sources tell us that his request is not likely to receive a favorable response from the current BBG executives who earlier had wanted to close [...]
Chinese regime officials don’t like Chinese media use of Cantonese language and neither does the Obama Administration for Voice of America news programs to China. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency in charge of U.S. international broadcasts, has again proposed to end later this year all Voice of America (VOA) radio and [...]
BBG Watch is releasing a full transcript of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s special video statement on the 70th anniversary of Voice of America (VOA) broadcasting to China. While her statement did appear on the VOA Chinese website, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Public Affairs Office refused employee requests to issue a press release on the [...]
