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Now Available in America VOA News. Would you use it?

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Recent Federal Law now allows U.S. Stations to carry Federal Broadcasts. Would you consider using VOA News? I just heard the latest 5 minute Top of the Hour cast for the first time, and I must say it was much worse than I would have thought?


"Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world."

Click on the Latest News Cast.
http://www.voanews.com/archive/voa-newscasts/latest/1469/1469.html
 
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Hot Hits said:
Recent Federal Law now allows U.S. Stations to carry Federal Broadcasts. Would you consider using VOA News? I just heard the latest 5 minute Top of the Hour cast for the first time, and I must say it was much worse than I would have thought?
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Keep in mind that the intended audience for VOA broadcasts generally has English as a second (or third or fourth...) language. So, the delivery tends to be slower than the pace of domestic commercial radio. The VOA also uses a very carefully selected vocabulary to avoid regional differences in usage. They are particularly sensitive to the fact that American English, with many colloquialisms, is not well understood by much of the English speaking population of the world.

So it's really unlikely, legal or not, that anyone would want to carry newscasts written and delivered for non-Americans.
 
The "Special English" broadcasts are maybe 25% of their total English-language output.
 
There's a Travelers Information Service station in Dayton, Ohio which (not entirely legally) has carried VOA News for a number of years
 
gr8oldies said:
There's a Travelers Information Service station in Dayton, Ohio which (not entirely legally) has carried VOA News for a number of years
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Yes that wouldn't have been legal under any circumstance. Very interesting you brought that up!

wadio said:
The delivery of "Latest Newscast" sounds much like NPR.
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To me it sounded like a mix between a bad public station and a high school station? The first actuality came about two minutes in, there were 3 of them, all phoners, all distorted. Unlike NPR that adds a little music or background when possible, this guy just sounded like a talking head for 5 minutes. The Flow, writing and presentation were not there?
KeithE4 said:
The "Special English" broadcasts are maybe 25% of their total English-language output.
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This was not a Special English newscast. While I agree with David's observation, the news Anchor was doing a very monotone delivery, sounding almost military. I have heard the VOA Special English casts and they are funny! This was not funny?
 
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