The 2011 Budget proposal would eliminate VOA Croatian and Greek language broadcasts. As proposed in 2010 and accepted by the Congress, VOA Hindi will cease broadcasting in 2010; these savings are also reflected in the funding summary. While the overall funding level for VOA is increasing from 2010, funding related to these language services within VOA will be eliminated. These reductions help to offset the total funds needed in 2011 to support ongoing programming and new priority needs. … Each year, BBG undertakes an assessment of each language in which the BBG entities broadcast, fulfilling a congressional mandate to ‘review, evaluate, and determine, at least annually, after consultation with the Secretary of State, the addition or deletion of language services.’” Terminations, Reductions, and Savings document of President Obama’s FY 2011 budget, OMB Website.
(Source: KimAndrewElliott.com)
on Feb 1st, 2010 at 16:40
THAT WILL BE VOA HINDI SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION START IN SOUTH ASIA IN YEAR 2010 VOA HINDI BUDGET FUND.
on Feb 2nd, 2010 at 15:21
I have in my files that VOA Hindi is an online-only service already for more than a year, with shortwave being no longer in use since 1 Oct 2008.
And BBG proposes to close all VOA services mentioned here (Hindi, Croatian, Greek) already since five years ago. Somebody must have taken them under his wings.