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25 unusual facts about Voice Of America


Abune Mathias

Abune Mathias eventually settled in Washington, D.C., where he presided over an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church made up of exiles who had fled the Ethiopian revolution, and continued to broadcast messages against the Derg regime on Voice of America.

Afghanistan Times Daily

Members of the editorial board include Dr. Sharif Fayez (Head of the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA), Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Dr. Sultana Parwanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif and Saduddin Shpoon (former producer of Afghanistan's Voice Of America (VOA) radio programming).

Ban Dung District

The Voice of America headquarters for South East Asia is situated 2 miles out of Ban Dung on highway 2022.

Barmin

Alexander Gregory Barmine (1899–1987), a Soviet officer, diplomat, and self-confessed spy, who defected to the West in 1937 and became an official at Voice of America and USIA,

Branko Mikasinovich

He also appears on "Voice of America" and a Serbian Service television program, "Open Studio".

Candle demonstration in Bratislava

Information about the event was propagated through Vatican Radio and, after the event, by Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.

Censorship in the People's Republic of Poland

In addition to the censorship of the publications, the state also supported jamming of foreign radio and television stations, such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America among others.

Cheryl Halpern

From 1995 through 2002, she served as a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees non-military overseas broadcasts by the US Government such as Radio Martí, the Voice of America, and Radio Free Iraq.

Ellington at Newport

In 1996, a tape was discovered in the Voice of America's archive of its radio broadcasts which changed everything.

Erching transmitter

The Erching transmitter was a longwave broadcasting facility of the Voice of America, established in 1953 near Erching, Bavaria, Germany.

Henry Botkin

Botkin spoke on the radio, “The Voice of America,” television, lead panel discussions throughout the country, and lectured and taught privately in New York, California, and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Jules Romains

During World War II he went into exile first to the United States where he spoke on the radio through the Voice of America and then, beginning in 1941, to Mexico where he participated with other French refugees in founding the Institut Français d'Amérique Latine (IFAL).

Karamürsel

High school age students whose parents were stationed in other Turkish locations, those stationed in Iraklion Air Station, Crete, and the children of civilian federal employees that worked for the VOA (Voice of America) radio station in Xanthi, Greece now attended high school in Karamürsel.

Lavinia Stan

She has been interviewed by newspapers such as El Pais (Spain), Haaretz (Israel), Embassy (Canada), MacLean's (Canada), The Concordian (Canada), L'Organe (Canada), National Journal (USA), România Liberă (Romania), Meridianul românesc, Terra Nova Magazine, as well as news agencies such as Reuters, Voice of America, radio stations such as Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and television stations such as Eastlink and the Polish Public TV.

Leo Löwenthal

After seven years as research director of the Voice of America, and another year at the Stanford Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, he joined the Berkeley Speech Department in 1956 and shortly thereafter the Department of Sociology.

Manoto 1

It has outstripped its closest rivals, BBC Persian, Farsi 1, GEM TV and Voice of America (VOA), according to the number of "likes" each channel receives on its Facebook page.

Mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia

The radio station Voice of America and the BBC World Service also had some audiences in Czechoslovakia, and their broadcasts were subject to only occasional jamming.

Russian Life

Amerika had been inaugurated in 1944, but in late 1940s the State Department began to feel that radio and the Voice of America would be more effective propaganda tools and, in 1952, publication of Amerika was suspended.

Sane Jaleh

In an interview with Voice of America, Persian, Sane Jaleh's brother stated that the government's allegations are false and without merit.

Sarah Jane Cion

The Trio was presented in concert by Savannah On Stage in March 2001, and at the Smithsonian Institution-Voice of America Stage in Washington D.C. in May 2001

Southern Weekly

published conversations with China's poorest people, told Voice of America that Southern Weekly's editor-in-chief, deputy-editor-in-chief and director of the newsroom were all sacked for publishing a discussion he had about his book.

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

The recording, by Voice of America, documents two sets by the Monk Quartet with Coltrane that night – an early set (tracks 1-5) and a late set (tracks 6-9), which the recording does not fully document.

Tony Pérez

Tony has stated that, during his playing career, his family in Cuba would listen to the Voice of America, which would give daily updates on Cuban players playing in the majors.

Xerox Star

Star, Viewpoint and GlobalView were the first commercial computing environments to offer support for most natural languages, including full-featured word processing, leading to their adoption by the Voice of America and other United States foreign affairs agencies as well as a number of multinational corporations.

XS4ALL

After XS4ALL had launched the online broadcast of Radio B92, its signal was picked up by the Voice of America and BBC World Service and transmitted back into Serbia, where it was then also transmitted via several local radio-stations.


Abu Faraj al-Libbi

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.

Andrei Tsygankov

He has spoken at various forums and has contributed to Asia Times, Johnson's Russia List, Moscow Times, Korea Herald, Los Angeles Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia Profile, Voice of America, and other media publications.

Beverly Eakman

She has also been chief speech writer for the National Council for Better Education, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, the Commission on the Bicentennial of the US Constitution, Voice of America, and a writer-editor for the US Department of Justice.

Charles Z. Wick

Wick also established the Voice of America's Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba; created RIAS TV in Berlin; headed the International Youth Exchange Initiative; established an office within USIA to implement the General Exchanges Agreement between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union; and created the Artistic Ambassador Program with its international young artists' exchanges.

H. C. Matthew Sim

Myanmar On My Mind was reviewed by Far Eastern Economic Review (28 June 2001), which called it the "politically most incorrect book of the year"; The Australian newspaper (23 July 2001); The Sunday Mail in Malaysia (24 June 2001), which said the book "is worth every sen cent"; Voice of America (9 and 16 July 2001); The New Paper (Sunday edition, 16 September 2001).

Jed Hilly

Hilly is the Executive Producer of the annual Americana Honors & Awards show at the Historic Ryman Auditorium, which is broadcast around the world on PBS and AXS TV along with BBC2 Radio, XM/Sirius Satellite Radio, WSM, Voice of America and NPR.org.

KBAD

During the latter part of the decade the newsroom was led by news director Bill Buckmaster (now a talk show host at KWFM in Tucson) and included reporters Jackie Glass (now a District Court Judge in Las Vegas) and Steven L. Herman, currently a Voice of America correspondent in Asia.

Larry Clamage

Ten years later, he started producing films for The United States Information Agency and The Voice of America.

Mirza Khazar

In October 1985, he was invited to Washington, D.C. to be editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Voice of America.

New Life Russian Radio

New Life Russian Radio is anchored and staffed by well-known on-air personalities of the Russian speaking community, including reporters and talents from the BBC, Voice of Russia, Echo of Moscow, Voice of America and others.

Radio in Sri Lanka

The International Broadcasting Bureau broadcasts programmes from Voice of America, Radio Azadi, Radio Free Afghanistan, Radio Free Asia, Radio Liberty and Radio Sawa on short wave using the relay station at Iranawila.

Radio with Pictures system for use with DVB

Several such services are in current use by international radio broadcasters such as "Huna Amsterdam" for Radio Netherlands Worldwide to the Middle East, and "VOA24" for Voice of America to Africa.

Robert Lima

After active duty in the United States Army Reserve, he worked in New York City in publishing and film, as well as in broadcasting for Voice of America before starting his teaching career at Hunter College of the City University of New York (1962–1965).

Vorkuta uprising

According to inmate Leonid Markizov, Voice of America and the BBC broadcast regular news about the events in Rechlag, with correct names, ranks and numbers.

Ziad Asali

He has provided television commentary and interviews for CNN, CBS, Charlie Rose, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC, C-SPAN, Voice of America and numerous syndicated cable programs.