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View of the Capitol Building from the roof of the Voice of America on 330 Independence Ave., S.W.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Dennis Dura, who shares this Radio World report on a proposed U.S. congressional spending bill that would include continued funding for the Voice of America and its parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The bipartisan proposal would allocate roughly $653 million to support VOA\u2019s international broadcasting mission and related services, signaling congressional backing for global news and information distribution even as the bill still must clear final approval: https:\/\/www.radioworld.com\/news-and-business\/business-and-law\/proposed-congress-spending-bill-includes-voa-funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dennis Dura, who shares this Radio World report on a proposed U.S. congressional spending bill that would include continued funding for the Voice of America and its parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The bipartisan proposal would allocate roughly $653 million to support VOA\u2019s international broadcasting mission […]<\/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":[5875,634,7246,182],"class_list":["post-65209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dennis-dura","tag-radio-world","tag-usagm","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gXL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45745,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/radio-survivor-inside-the-little-known-voice-of-america-and-the-u-s-agency-for-global-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":65209,"position":0},"title":"Radio Survivor: “Inside the ‘Little Known’ Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media”","author":"Thomas","date":"October 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio Survivor) Over the past few months, there\u2019s been a flurry of media attention focused on the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM). 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