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    <Category>Executive Branch: Independent Agencies and Government Corporations</Category>
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    <AgencyName>Broadcasting Board of Governors</AgencyName>
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        <Address>330 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20237</Address>
        <Phone>202-203-4545</Phone>
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        <ShowHeaderParagraph>Yes</ShowHeaderParagraph>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jeffrey Shell</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Chairman</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Matthew C. Armstrong</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Ryan C. Crocker</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Susan McCue</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Michael P. Meehan</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Kenneth Weinstein</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>John F. Kerry</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Paul Kollmer-Dorsey</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Leslie Hyland</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Robert Bole</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Suzie Carroll</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>André Mendes</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jeffrey N. Trimble</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Lynne Weil</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Bruce Sherman</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Strategy and Development Planning and Performance Measurement</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Adam Martin, Acting</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Digital and Design Innovation</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Doug Boynton</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>John Lippman, Acting</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Delia L. Johnson</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Civil Rights</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Cherylynn Peters, Acting</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Donna Grace</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Fred Lang, Acting</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Security</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Charles Goolsby</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Policy</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Terry Balazs, Acting</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Technology, Services and Innovation, and Chief Information Officer</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>David Ensor</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Voice of America</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Carlos A. García-Pérez</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Cuba Broadcasting</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>John Giambalvo, Acting</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Nenad Pejic, Acting</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Libby Liu</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>President, Radio Free Asia</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Brian T. Conniff</NameColumnValue>
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        <Paragraph MissionStatmentId="102" SortOrder="1">The Broadcasting Board of Governors informs, engages, and connects people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) became an independent agency on October 1, 1999, by authority of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6501 note). It is composed of nine members. Eight members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate; the ninth, an ex officio member, is the Secretary of State.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The BBG serves as the governing body for all civilian U.S. international media and provides programming in 61 languages via radio, television, and the Internet. The BBG broadcast services include the Voice of America, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. The BBG relies on the International Broadcasting Bureau for transmission and technical support of its broadcast services.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>All BBG broadcast services adhere to the broadcasting standards and principles of the International Broadcasting Act of 1994, which include reliable, accurate, and comprehensive news; balanced and comprehensive presentations of U.S. thought, institutions, and policies, as well as discussions about those policies; information about developments throughout the world; and a variety of opinions from nations around the world.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>International Broadcasting Bureau</Heading>
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                <WebAddress>http://www.bbg.gov</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) provides program delivery and essential support services for U.S. international media. The IBB is responsible for the BBG’s strategic planning and for integrating activities across the Federal and grantee broadcasters for greater organizational efficiency. The IBB manages a global network of transmitting sites, an extensive system of leased satellite and fiber optic circuits, and an increasing variety of rapidly growing Internet and mobile audience platforms and services. The IBB is responsible for program placement services and marketing for all BBG broadcast organizations. It provides research and evaluations of broadcasts. The IBB manages the BBG’s financial operations, legal support, and communications. It also provides information technology, human resources, Equal Employment Opportunity, procurement, security, and other administrative support for the agency.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Voice of America</Heading>
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                <WebAddress>http://www.voanews.com</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Voice of America (VOA) is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA began broadcasting in 1942 and now reaches more than 164 million people worldwide. VOA provides accurate, comprehensive, and trustworthy news and information, as well as informed discussion about the United States and the world. It strives to engage audiences in regions deemed critical to the U.S. through the preferred medium—radio, television, Internet, or digital media—of the people in those regions. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,800 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to a global audience. Programs are produced in 45 languages.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a private nonprofit corporation reaching more than 19 million people in 28 languages and in 21 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Russia. RFE/RL journalists provide what many people cannot get locally: uncensored news, responsible discussion, and open debate. RFE/RL uses the latest digital technologies—the Internet, SMS text messaging, online video, satellite radio, and popular social media networks—and trusted broadcast radio to reach people in some of the most closed societies on Earth. With more than 60 years of surrogate broadcasting experience, RFE/RL continues to bring audiences the rich, immediate, and interactive content they seek. RFE/RL is funded by a grant from the BBG.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Radio Free Asia</Heading>
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                <WebAddress>http://www.rfa.org</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit news organization, operating under a grant from the BBG. Broadcasting daily in nine languages to listeners in Asia whose governments restrict media, RFA delivers award-winning, reliable news and information, along with a range of voices and opinions from within Asia, to demonstrate freedom of expression over the airwaves, on television, and online. Through shortwave, medium wave, satellite and transmission television, social media, and the Internet, RFA broadcasts in Mandarin, Cantonese, Uyghur, three Tibetan dialects, Burmese, Vietnamese, Korean, Lao, and Khmer. Headquartered in Washington, DC, RFA has seven overseas bureaus and a vast network of correspondents around the world.</Paragraph>
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                <WebAddress>http://www.alhurra.com/</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN) is the nonprofit news organization that operates Alhurra Television, Radio Sawa, and MBN Digital under a grant from the BBG. Alhurra, Radio Sawa, and MBN Digital provide an open line of communication between the people of the Middle East and the United States. MBN's networks deliver accurate information on the United States, its policies, and its people with a broad range of perspectives and an exchange of ideas on relevant issues. MBN networks have an audience of more than 30 million people in 21 countries in the Middle East and North Africa.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Office of Cuba Broadcasting</Heading>
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                <WebAddress>http://www.martinoticias.com</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of Cuba Broadcasting conducts the operations of the Martís at its headquarters in Miami, FL. The Martís are a multimedia hub of news, information, and analysis that provides the people of Cuba with interactive programs 7 days a week through television (satellite and transmission), shortwave and medium wave radio, as well as flash drives, emails, DVDs, and SMS text. Combined with the online platform, martinoticias.com, they are a one-of-kind service that brings objective information to all Cubans.</Paragraph>
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      <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs, Broadcasting Board of Governors, 330 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20237. Phone, 202-203-4400. Fax, 202-203-4961.</Footer>
      <Email>publicaffairs@bbg.gov</Email>
      <WebAddress>http://www.bbg.gov</WebAddress>
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