Circle February 1, 2006, on your calendars. That's the day VOA ceases to be a significant global broadcaster on shortwave. Note the last minute nature of this communication and the non-sequitors given as reasoning for this death blow. VOA dies so that radios Marti, Farda, Sawa and Al Hurra can live? Gimme a break. Norm Pattiz may be gone, but his sorry legacy lives on.
John Figliozzi Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:43 PM > Subject: Transmission Reductions > > Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:45:00 -0500 > > From: George Moore, Director of IBB Engineering and Technical Services > > Gentlemen, > > Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 budget constraints for the Broadcasting > Board of > Governors require implementation of across the board efficiencies so that our overall broadcast mission can concentrate on its support of this country's war on terrorism. The nation's need to secure and bolster its defenses against terrorism, the terrible damage and cost of recovery caused by hurricane Katrina, added to an already high U.S. Government budget deficit, means that our broadcasting mission must become more focused. > > In realignment of funding for 06 and 07, we have to reduce shortwave > transmissions throughout the network for most of our broadcast services. Approximately 90,000 transmission hours will come off of the network. These reductions will provide greater flexibility within the network for Engineering to realign its transmission assets to achieve maximum effectiveness for its target areas. Operational orders implementing these reductions will be sent to all stations in the next few days, effective February 1st, that will provide further details of the individual station reductions. In addition to these reductions, it is possible that further efficiencies will be necessary to meet the budgetary goals and objectives that have been established by the President. > > As you may "read" into this message, the next few years are going to > require the Agency to make very difficult decisions. > > I'm providing you with as much information on the budget situation > as I > can at this time. You may use the information in this email to brief your staff, as they will be concerned when they see the reduced schedule. > > Very Best - George > > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
