Thursday, September 25, 2008

U.S. Board Blocks Use of AM Frequency in Moscow for Voice of America Russian Broadcasts

FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog September 24, 2008, San Francisco - A U.S. broadcaster is denied access to a radio frequency in the Russian capital. The censor in this case is not the Kremlin, as one might expect, but the U.S. government agency which manages U.S. taxpayer-funded international broadcasts. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is preventing the Voice of America (VOA) from using an AM frequency in Moscow for its Russian-language radio programs, even though the Russian authorities still allow the frequency to be occupied by VOA. The same bipartisan Board ignored directives from Congress and terminated all on air VOA Russian radio broadcasts on July 26, just 12 days before the Russian army attacked Georgia.
read the full story here : http://www.bloggernews.net/117876

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