“These new partnerships give us an important opportunity to expand our audience in Bangladesh,” said VOA Director Danforth Austin. “Visiting Dhaka just weeks ago, I learned first-hand that VOA’s broadcasts are hugely popular.”
Radio Today (89.6 FM) now broadcasts 5-minutes of world and U.S. news produced by VOA’s Bangla Service daily between 11:45 p.m. to 12 a.m. (1745 to 1800 UTC). In addition, a 10-minute English-language newscast jointly produced by Radio Today and VOA will air at nightly at 9:45 p.m. local time. The programs were formally inaugurated on March 3.
Beginning March 12, Radio Aamar (101 FM) broadcasts the first 30 minutes of VOA’s daily one-hour Bangla-language program six days a week from 10:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in Dhaka (1600 to 1630 UTC). Every Wednesday, Radio Aamer broadcasts the entire 60 minutes, including the popular call-in show Hello Washington.
VOA Bangla Service broadcasts on radio, television, and the Internet reach an estimated 10 million people in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. There are more than 1,000 VOA fan clubs in the Bangladesh. .
The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,250 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people. Programs are produced in 45 languages.
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Originally published at https://www.insidevoa.com/a/a-13-34-2008-03-19-voa52-111614999/178427.html
