A Voice That’s Stronger than Ever
Since the 1990s, Voice of America has added programming in Farsi and made its services available on the Internet and cell phones.
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HROUGHOUT the Cold War, the Voice of America expanded the number of languages of its broad- casts and the number of countries to which it transmitted programs. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963, VOA broadcast around the clock in Spanish. When Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the surface of the moon, 450 million people around the world followed the live broadcast of the event on VOA—the largest audience in radio history.
After the collapse of the Communist regimes in East- ern Europe in 1989, VOA continued to adapt its program- ming to reflect changing events around the world. When Yugoslavia broke up in 1991, VOA divided its Yugoslav service into Croatian and Serbian services, followed by a Bosnian service in 1996 and a Macedonian service in 1999. In the mid-1990s, VOA began to broadcast pro- grams simultaneously on the radio and on TV, beginning with “simulcasts” in Chinese, then Arabic and Farsi. And in 1994, VOA became the first international broadcaster to make its material available over the Internet. By the end of the 1990s, VOA was broadcasting in fifty-three languages, and with its services offered over radio, TV, and the new medium of the Internet, what had started as an AM station in West Chester, Ohio, had now become a multimedia international broadcaster.
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A Voice of America correspondent is shown recording an inter- view in a remote African village.
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