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?
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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