[Swprograms] PBS and VOA on VOA tonight

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** U S A. ``SW radio is going the way of the horse and buggy in most
countries``, says Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, disgraced resigning chairman of the
BBG, in a piece on the VOA on the PBS NewsHour, also featuring Neil Currie of
VOA making the case for keeping English, as well as the usual other luminaries.


The PBS NewsHour story about VOA, and the threats it faces, starts about
halfway thru. I tuned in late after 2330 UT. Look out for it if your station
runs the show later. Here`s the Public Radio Fan listing of audio broadcasts of
it, headed of course by the New WETA an hour later:

Scheduled Broadcasts, UT days and times
MTuWThF  2300-0000 KQED, KCET Newshour   
MTuWThF  2300-2355 WLIU, WCWP   
TuWThFSa 0000-0100 WETA, WNED-AM   
TuWThF   0300-0400 Spectrum AM   
TuWThFSa 0300-0400 WILL, WGVU   
TuWThFSa 0400-0500 WNYC-AM   

Podcasts are also available. And I see on the show website
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ that many of the segments have streaming video so
perhaps this one will too, after a suitable delay. Tnx also to Tom Roche for a
heads-up about this.

Furthermore, VOA News itself has a story tonight about VOA`s problems, which
begins:

The U.S. Government-funded Voice of America has been around for nearly 65
years, broadcasts in 44 languages, and claims a weekly audience of 115 million
worldwide for its news, education, and cultural programming. The organization
is adjusting to new technology and new global politics after 9/11. For
instance, there are now four hours of TV broadcasts in Farsi into Iran each
day, up from an hour a week before 9/11. And Afghanistan is another growing
focus of Voice of America, with broadcasts in Dari and Pashto, the country's
two official languages.

A current budget proposal in front of Congress would cut TV and radio
broadcasts in Croatian, Turkish, Thai, and Greek, as well as radio
broadcasts in Albanian, Russian, and Hindi. It also includes a move toward more
native languages and a sharp reduction in international English broadcasting.
Other ongoing changes at Voice of America include a shift of resources from
radio to television and the Internet. 

Tonight, Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown has the Voice of America story. . .
73, (Glenn Hauser, Jan 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


 
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