VOA Picture Postcard on Madurai

 

The most interesting postcards from Voice of America (VOA) are those that capture the essence of the Tamil Nadu experience. These postcards often feature iconic Madurai landmarks, such as the Madurai Meenatch Temple or the Thirumalai Nayakar Mahal, or depict everyday scenes of Madurai life. Some of the most popular VOA postcards include:

Voice of America 2022 Calendar

A Free Press Matters: VOA @ 80

December is always a festive month for international radio lovers. Listeners will send Christmas and New Year greeting cards to all radios. The radio station also sends greetings, calendars, diaries and Year End Gifts to its visitors.

Souvenirs like these have dwindled after the recent decline in the number of shortwave radios. After a long hiatus, America's public service broadcaster "Voice of America" ​​sent the most beautiful monthly calendar for the year 2022 to the university address today.

One of the highlights of this calendar was documenting the broadcasters of the 47 language services of Voice of America. They have also published photos of the old language section.

This year VOA is celebrating its 80th year. The radio was launched on 1 February 1942. It also did Tamil language broadcasting in the meantime. Can we forget Nallathambi Vellaiyan who announced the landing of man on the moon live from Washington that day?

To request a VOA calendar or information about VOA programming or frequencies: audiencemail [ at ] voanews.com

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VoA steps us Net usage to reach listeners

The Voice of America, which now broadcasts 1,500 hours of radio and television news and feature programmes each week for a foreign audience of 134 million people, is increasingly using the Internet to interact with its audience.

In addition to transmitting news and information, it operates social networking programs on its website and uses blogs and webchats to encourage audience participation.

It also uses the Internet for English language learning programmes. In 2008, VoA awarded a contract to Alelo Inc to develop an interactive Web-based learning portal to teach English as a second language. The portal is extremely popular with college-age students in China and Iran.

VoA Director Dan Austin said in a recent interview to America.gov that it had been told the new Obama administration feels that “what we do, dollar for dollar, is one of the better investments the American taxpayer can make.”

Austin said the VoA will continue to provide timely news and information to more than 130 million people worldwide while pursing innovative ways to engage this audience.

The former Wall Street Journal reporter and executive, who now oversees VoA’s $190 million budget, said, “Our fundamental mission has basically remained the same” since VoA began broadcasting in 1942 during World War II.

“Our task is still to provide accurate, balanced and comprehensive news and information programs for foreign audiences. We are just expanding our technical ability to do that while at the same time using state-of-the-art information technology to have a dialogue with people.”

Its 1,100 journalists and technicians broadcast in 45 languages (25 through its television arm), using a growing network of 1,200 local radio and television stations, as well as cable systems.

“Our strategy for reaching audiences is market- and research - driven,” Austin explained.“We are investing a fair amount of money into our technological infrastructure,” Austin said. “Right now, we have one foot in the analog world and one foot in the digital world.”

“But, bit by bit, we’re putting together a [digital] system,” he said, that eliminates tapes and similar recording and playing equipment, relying instead on computerization to get better quality quickly and cost-effectively. (Radioandmusic.com)