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The Russian Front – The Federalist

  • January 1, 2014
International Broadcasting Bureau – The Standard for Dysfunction and Defunct in the Federal Government – Information War Lost: The…
Bureaucracy Warning Sign
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Freedom of Speech Abridged – The Federalist

  • November 2, 2013
International Broadcasting Bureau – The Standard For Dysfunctional and Defunct in the US Government – Information War Lost:  Freedom of…

USGBroadcasts.com restored

  • August 31, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary We have managed to get our domain name USGBroadcasts.com/ to work again and direct to…

BBG Watch domain name was hacked

  • August 30, 2013
BBG Watch Commentary While our website still works at these addresses: http://usgbroadcasts.com/bbgwatch/ and https://bbgwatch.com which forwards to http://usgbroadcasts.com/bbgwatch/,…

Half a million hits for BBG Watch

  • July 16, 2012
BBG Watch has reached half a miilon hits for its website, www.bbgwatch.com or www.usgbroadcasts.com. A group of current…

BBG Watch reaches 400,000 hits

  • June 2, 2012
The BBG Watch website — bbgwatch.com or usgbroadcasts.com — has reached 400,000 hits this week. We want to…
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Capitol Hill Reception brings together supporters of Voice of America broadcasts to China – BBG Watch

  • December 9, 2011
The video from the Capitol Hill reception to mark the 70th anniversary of Voice of America broadcasts to China includes statements from the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who hosted the reception and introduced an amendment to save these broadcasts from being cut by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Congressman Chris Smith, and others. Link to video.
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Chairman of House Committee on Foreign Affairs says Chinese people need Voice of America broadcasts – BBG Watch

  • December 9, 2011
In a special video message, the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, congratulated the Voice of America (VOA) on the 70th anniversary of VOA broadcasting to China. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which manages VOA, tried to end all VOA radio and television broadcasts in Mandarin and Cantonese on Oct.
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US International Broadcasting and the BBG: The Numbers Game

  • November 18, 2011
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has announced that its own surveys (These are not completely independent surveys. They are produced by a contractor, InterMedia, for whom the BBG has been for years the only major client.

BBG Discussion of the 1.3 Million Dollar Deloitte Contract

  • November 11, 2011
As observed by Dr. Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation, “despite having adopted a new strategic plan, the board then spent a good 10 minutes of its October 13 meeting discussing contracting an independent firm to perform a feasibility study of consolidation.” If consolidation of services is part of a plan already adopted—and to some degree already underway—” Dr
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Putin goes after Radio Svoboda on Russian TV — CUSIB and BBG Watch

  • October 21, 2011
In a prime-time interview aired on October 17 with the heads of Russia’s three largest television stations, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that during the Cold War, his former employer — the KGB — viewed Radio Svoboda as a branch of the CIA engaged in spying in the former Soviet Union, the Committee for U.S.

BBG executives unnerved by Ashe’s interest in employee morale — BBG Watch

  • October 19, 2011
According to BBG Watch sources, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives, including International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) senior staffers, were surprised by BBG member Victor Ashe’s public raising of the issue of employee concerns at the October 13 BBG meeting. Sources tell us they were even more surprised to receive a request from Ashe for a written report and a formal response on how they plan to address these concerns
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The “New” BBG Strategic Plan — The Federalist — BBG Watch

  • October 18, 2011
by The Federalist     On Friday, October 14, the Broadcasting Board of Governors put out a press release heralding its “new” alleged “strategic plan.”   Well, really, this isn’t something “new.”  It’s more a case of something being recycled and repackaged.  The goals are the same: the destruction of effective US international broadcasting.  Someone inside the Cohen Building must think they are being clever.
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BBG’s Victor Ashe raises employee morale issues

  • October 15, 2011
In a rare move for a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a struggling federal agency which oversees U.S. government-funded news and information broadcasts for foreign audiences, BBG Governor Ambassador Victor Ashe raised the issue of employee morale at the Voice of America (VOA), one of the broadcasting entities managed by the BBG. Speaking at an open BBG meeting on October 13, 2011, Ambassador Ashe acknowledged that despite a minor improvement in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, BBG remains near the very bottom among all federal agencies in terms of employee morale.
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NGOs defend media freedom against Kim Jong-Il's regime

  • October 10, 2011
Free media NGOs and shortwave radio stations help to bring uncensored news to North Korea. One of them is Voice of America. VOA and its parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, however, are also criticized for promoting to what amounts to a North Korean propaganda video.

Newly-formed Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting vows to defend media freedom journalism

  • October 6, 2011
BBG Watch has learned that individuals associated with U.S. human rights, labor, and media freedom organizations have formed the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) with the aim of working with the Administration, Congress and media to promote free flow of uncensored news from the United States to countries in which journalists are threatened or lack sufficient resources.

Forum restarted; Politburo Media Review launched

  • September 25, 2011
We have restarted BBG Watch Forum. There are still some bugs, but it works. We have also launched BBG Watch “Politburo Media Review.” The name is somewhat humorous but the purpose is serious

“Potentially Damaging Content”

  • September 18, 2011
The latest revelations by BBG Watch regarding the Broadcasting Board of Governors describe an organization that is at…