Voice of America
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... Voice of America (VOA), radio broadcasting network of the U.S. government, a unit of the United States Information Agency (USIA). Its first broadcast, in German, took place on February 24, 1942, and was intended to counter Nazi propaganda among the German people. By the time World War II ended, the VOA was broadcasting 3,200 programs in 40 languages every week. It became part of the USIA when that agency was established in 1953.

The VOA's function is to promote understanding of the United States and to spread American values.

During the Cold War it concentrated its message on the communist countries of eastern and central Europe.

Its daily broadcasts include news reports, stories and discussions on American political and cultural events, and editorials setting forth U.S. government policy.

The VOA produces and broadcasts radio programs in English and foreign languages and operates broadcasting and relay stations to transmit them....

World Radio TV Handbook
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... We are delighted that Radio Data Center has taken over the publication of WRTH and has now produced the 2023 edition of the world's greatest guide to radio ...

imo, stated differently, ~the Internet has screwed the profits here, so we are falling back to plan B.~

Voice of America Begins Broadcasting in Germany, 1942 (February 2022)
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... In 2022, "Voice of America provides trusted and objective news and information in 47 languages to a measured weekly audience of more than 311.8 million people around the world." (VOA website).

Eighty years ago, during the Second World War, the Voice of America began broadcasting this week to the German people on short-wave radio.

The American government had already begun direct programming by short-wave within weeks of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, by broadcasting to the Philippines in English.

The programs began with the playing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the promise that America would always tell the listeners the truth about what was happening in the war, even if the information "is bad for us." ...

Memorandum Prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency (1981)
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... he Soviet Union, its East European allies, Vietnam, and Cuba consider strict control over internal information and propaganda vital to their security. All these governments therefore believe that the international radiobroadcasting activities of other countries pose a threat to their political security. Nonetheless, how each government deals with the influx of information from abroad depends on its assessment of the vulnerability of its regime and society to outside influences, on foreign policy considerations, and on the practicality of various countermeasures. [portion marking not declassified]

This paper examines the policies of the Soviet Union and its allies on information control including:

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- - - The impact of international and internal situations as well as foreign broadcasting practices and policies on the respective Communist governments that leads them to inhibit the international flow of information, including an examination of jamming policies and practices.
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- - - The possible reactions of these regimes to future Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty programming, including possible expansion of these services, changes in their frequencies or enhancement of their signals, and changes in targeting. [portion marking not declassified] ...

Why are Zimbabwe police seizing radios? (2013)
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... "It is very diabolic the taking of the radios, people are entitled to information about what is happening in the country ... taking away these radios is to force them to listen to the ZBC, which they don't want to listen to," MDC spokesman Douglas Mwonzora told the BBC.

Ms Kadzviti, 25, agreed that people needed an "alternative source of news" to the state broadcaster, widely seen as a mouthpiece for Zanu-PF and President Mugabe.

"We are sick and tired of state propaganda on ZBC," she told the BBC. ...

Smith-Mundt Act (1948)
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...

SHORT TITLE

1 This Act may be cited as the "United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948".

OBJECTIVES

2 The Congress hereby declares that the objectives of this Act are to enable the Government of the United States to promote a better understanding of the United States in other countries, and to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Among the means to be used in achieving these objectives are --

- - - 1 an information service to disseminate abroad information about the United States, its people, and policies promulgated by the Congress, the President, the Secretary of State and other responsible officials of Government having to do with matters affecting foreign affairs;

- - - 2 an educational exchange service to cooperate with other nations in --

- - - - - a the interchange of persons, knowledge, and skills;

- - - - - b the rendering of technical and other services;

- - - - - c the interchange of developments in the field of education, the arts, and sciences. ...