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Voice of America: Station Modernization Projects Need to Be Justified

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 24, 1994
Report No. NSIAD-94-69
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Summary:

The end of the Cold War, technological advances, and organizational changes in U.S. foreign broadcasting programs may render some of the Voice of America's (VOA) shortwave modernization projects obsolete before they are finished. Democracy is spreading in many parts of the world, host country media have become more reliable broadcast sources, and VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty audiences have shrunk. By the turn of the century, direct satellite broadcasts involving high-quality signals may be available. Despite these trends, VOA plans to continue to build new shortwave stations and modernize existing ones. More than half of the $900 million VOA plans to spend on modernization through 2003 is for shortwave projects that have not yet begun. The planned shortwave modernization projects are not supported by cost-benefit analyses.

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