{"id":62676,"date":"2025-04-22T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62676"},"modified":"2025-04-22T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:34:11","slug":"tuning-out-tibet-the-closure-of-voa-and-rfa-tibetan-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/tuning-out-tibet-the-closure-of-voa-and-rfa-tibetan-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning Out Tibet: The Closure of VOA and RFA Tibetan Broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Fred Waterer for also sharing the following article from Tibetan Review. This piece raises questions about the future of Tibetan-language broadcasting and the broader implications of VOA and RFA closures:<\/p>\n

Click here to read: The Silencing of Tibetan Voices: Who Benefits and Who Loses from the Closure of VOA and RFA?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer for also sharing the following article from Tibetan Review. This piece raises questions about the future of Tibetan-language broadcasting and the broader implications of VOA and RFA closures: Click here to read: The Silencing of Tibetan Voices: Who Benefits and Who Loses from the Closure of VOA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[960,3,43],"tags":[1529,7246,402,182],"class_list":["post-62676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-free-asia","tag-usagm","tag-voa-cuts","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-giU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10112,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/details-of-shortwave-reductions-to-voa-rfe-rfa\/","url_meta":{"origin":62676,"position":0},"title":"Details of shortwave reductions to VOA, RFE, RFA","author":"Thomas","date":"June 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier today, I contacted Letitia King, Spokesperson for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). 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Thanks to Dan Robinson for sharing this significant\u00a0news. Dan writes: This news emerging from VOA late Friday: VOA to end shortwave broadcasts in English and several language services Monday. 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The U.S. Agency for Global Media announced that 532 federal positions are being cut, part of a larger restructuring effort that\u2019s already stirred up legal challenges\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "International Broadcasting"","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10339,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/voa-and-rfa-via-homemade-radios-in-north-korea\/","url_meta":{"origin":62676,"position":3},"title":"VOA and RFA via homemade radios in North Korea","author":"Thomas","date":"July 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Anil, for sharing this article regarding the importance and inspiration radio provides to many North Koreans. This comes from our favorite North Korea independent news site, NK News. Here's a quote from the article from a North Korean defector known as\u00a0\"Park\": \u201cI have been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Clandestine"","block_context":{"text":"Clandestine","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/clandestine\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"FlagNorthKorea","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1-300x215.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10987,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/voa-reduced-tv-to-china-during-hong-kong-protests\/","url_meta":{"origin":62676,"position":4},"title":"VOA Reduced TV to China during Hong Kong protests","author":"Thomas","date":"October 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The website BBG Watch recently posted a guest commentary from an anonymous VOA reporter regarding the loss of VOA Weishi TV during the Hong Kong protests. 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