Excerpt from my column for the August Journal of the North American Shortwave Association naswa.net ...
VOA Persian today (Sunday) posted Michael Lipin's report on Friday's WHCA Dinner. Video included HHS Sec. Robert Kennedy Jr. and entourage laughing at Trump's jokes. And Trump putting on a Trump 2028 hat. x.com/VOAfarsi/sta... English version (posted Friday): x.com/Michael_Lipi...
Somehow the State Department report overlooked the Cuban dictatorship's use of the E layer of the ionosphere to send Cuban television to a potential audience of a few dozen Americans who still have analog TV sets. x.com/StaticVoyage...
Radio Havana broadcasts in support of the Sandinistas on page 20 ...
The State Department's new report "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism" -- an apparent justification for whatever the United States plans to do to Cuba -- includes a mention of Radio Free Dixie, a short-lived early-1960s AM-band broadcast from Cuba to SE USA. www.state.gov/cuba-the-cap...
She's nominated to be the new CEO of US Agency for Global Media (or "International Communications Activities account" within State that would replace USAGM). If journalists under this "account" write like she does, audiences will tune elsewhere for comprehensible sentences. x.com/UnderSecPD/s...
(1/2) "Her radio broadcasting career began with an internship at Voice of America in Washington, D.C., where she met Jim Parisi, to whom she was married for sixty years until his passing in 2024." www.arkansasonline.com/obituaries/2...
If you tried to design a job for a Trump official GOP senators want out of Washington ...
Government appeal that held up reinstatement USAGM employees and contractors "was dismissed, by the appeals court, as moot on June 8, 2026." afsa.org/afsa-lawsuit...
"China is prioritizing widespread influence over building trust. By weakening Voice of America and related networks, the United States is giving up its unique advantage—credibility—at a pivotal moment for influence in the hemisphere" www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
"Museum of Analog Broadcast Technology" (Apropos: on Shortwave Radiogram, we demonstrate how digital text modes on an analog broadcast carrier are an excellent combination for communication in difficult reception conditions. swradiogram.bsky.social )
Manoto TV announces the end of its broadcasts to Iran. x.com/ManotoNews/s...
"The Islamic Republic could respond to a US threat in wartime by triggering an explosion in low Earth orbit to create debris capable of seriously damaging satellites such as Starlink, pro-government analyst Ardalan Eliasinfard said on Iranian state television." x.com/IranIntl_En/...
"And, in 1952, the service stationed Cutter Courier in Greek waters to transmit Voice of America broadcasts into the Soviet Union for the next 12 years." www.mycg.uscg.mil/News/Article...
Doesn't this repost, supporting LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, by the official X account of under secretary of state for public diplomacy Sarah Rogers, also nominee to serve concurrently as CEO of USAGM, violate the Hatch Act? x.com/UnderSecPD/s...
Posted to X by Elez Biberaj, former chief of VOA Albanian and director of the VOA Eurasia Division. x.com/EBiberaj/sta...
VOA Chinese adds a new half-hour broadcast, 0630 China time, 2230 UTC ... x.com/VOAChinese/s...
In this and other tweets today, Kari Lake blames the "mainstream media."
House Appropriations bill for FY 2027 includes: "Defunding the United States Agency for Global Media while investing in the new International Communications Activities account, established in the President’s request." See links to summary and text at: appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
"In 2000, an agreement transferred the broadcast records (through 1995) of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, where this essential documentation is now preserved and made available to researchers worldwide." x.com/HooverInst/s...
"I am recused from all @USAGM involvement pending my confirmation hearing" [International broadcasting journalism and public diplomacy are separate and complementary activities. One person in charge of both is not tenable.] x.com/UnderSecPD/s...
Starts with the VOA "Yankee Doodle" interval signal played from the transmitter site. Then VOA Chinese, back on shortwave ... x.com/atake/status...