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...chopping-up and brightening around the edges still hasn't altered much of Voice of America's bedrock mediocrity. VOA [Dec. 9] still sounds like some bureaucrat's idea of everyman's radio entertainment. I've had enough of interviews with Midwestern chicken farmers and the supercilious, you're-not-too-bright enunciation American announcers have been instructed to use. I'll take the BBC's thoroughly professional and human sound. Besides, their reception is a whole lot clearer...
...short-wave listener and radio amateur, I'm glad to see VOA get some recognition for the fine programs it broadcasts. In my opinion, it has more informative and entertaining material to offer than NBC, ABC or CBS-and without the commercials...
...Europe, VOA remains second in credibility to the BBC, whose wartime broadcasts won it a lasting reputation for reliability. But it has greater respect in many parts of Africa, where, says a Nigerian newspaper editor, "it appears the BBC regrets that Britain ever abdicated power." In the credibility race, both friendly rivals far outdistance Radio Moscow and Radio Peking...
Multiplied Wattage. In total hours beamed over short wave, VOA, with 854 hours a week, is behind Russia (1,403 hours) and China (1,015 hours), and is only slightly ahead of the United Arab Republic (827 hours). However, by freely offering local stations tapes of its own programs and live broadcasts of special events, such as U.S. space shots, VOA vastly multiplies its wattage...
...Foreign Minister Chen Yi has described himself as a listener of Voice newscasts. Captured Viet Cong posters warn direly that "listening to the Voice of America is like letting a thief in your house who will steal your soul." Graduating Moscow high school students danced until dawn to VOA music in Red Square last spring. In the forests of Togo, one Christian Agbeze spends three hours a day-one hour down a mountain and two hours up-walking to the nearest village with a radio so that he can catch Voice broadcasts. Never one to let a listener down, VOA...