{"id":6940,"date":"2013-07-27T20:44:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2013-07-27T20:44:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T00:44:03","slug":"bbg-watch-edward-r-murrow-site-appears-safe-in-fiscal-year-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/bbg-watch-edward-r-murrow-site-appears-safe-in-fiscal-year-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"BBG Watch: Edward R. Murrow site appears safe in fiscal year 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station campus as seen by Google Earth (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

This is good news for our friends at the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station (click to read tour)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

(Source: BBG Watch<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Thanks to efforts by Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Victor Ashe, support of his board colleagues Susan McCue and Michael Meehan, and intervention from North Carolina congressmen\u00a0G.K. Butterfield<\/a>\u00a0(D-NC) and\u00a0Walter B. Jones<\/a>\u00a0(R-NC), the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station in Greenville, NC appears to be safe for now from budget cuts previously sought by officials of BBG\u2019s International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).<\/p>\n

In a letter to both congressmen, IBB Director Richard Lobo assured them that the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), which utilizes more than 80 percent of the scheduled shortwave transmissions from the Murrow Station, will work with the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to utilize $50 million of existing democracy and human rights un-obligated funds to pay some of the costs of the station\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n

IBB Director Lobo assured both congressmen that under this proposal there will be no personnel changes at the Murrow Station and the employees would remain on the payroll of the International Broadcasting Bureau.<\/p>\n

But with Victor Ashe expected to leave his post on the board soon. With new BBG members expected to be confirmed, long-term future of the Murrow Station is still not certain. Ashe and Congressmen G.K. Butterfield and Walter B. Jones worked hard to keep it open despite pressure and resistance from IBB executives who wanted to close it down. The station is the only BBG shortwave transmitting facility on American territory fully controlled by the U.S. government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s hope the new BBG board members understand the importance of keeping at least one BBG shortwave transmitting on US soil. In my opinion, every<\/em> country should do this; not only for diplomatic and free press reasons, but for reasons of national security. In an emergency, if other communications systems were to fail, shortwave radio could still cover a vast broadcasting footprint–even the whole of the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is good news for our friends at the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station (click to read tour): (Source: BBG Watch) Thanks to efforts by Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Victor Ashe, support of his board colleagues Susan McCue and Michael Meehan, and intervention from North Carolina congressmen\u00a0G.K. Butterfield\u00a0(D-NC) and\u00a0Walter B. Jones\u00a0(R-NC), the Edward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[56,3,43,1167],"tags":[1567,10,379,1103],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-tour-of-edward-r-murrow-transmitting-station","tag-voa","tag-voa-greenville","tag-voa-site-b"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1NW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3494,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/edward-r-murrow-transmitting-station-re-dedication-videos\/","url_meta":{"origin":6940,"position":0},"title":"Edward R. 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