This is all started when one of my friend told me that his friend was working in GEO Pakistan and was responsible for the program ALIF, due to the conflict topic in ALIF, some unknown people was firing his and his coworkers houses every week. Then he got a new posting to VOA in america, and the strange thing was that he did not get a new job, it was simply a transfer or posting from one location (GEO Pakistan) to another location (VOA), which was strange for me and I start doing surfing to the net to find out the fact and here I am now asking this question to everyone. He has also mentioned that most of the funding for GEO is comes from VOA, which I have not find out yet, the only information I found is that some of the programs are funded by VOA in their own interest.
So please share your information on this matter.......
Urdu Service
The Voice of America program Khabron Se Aage (Beyond the Headlines) is telecast in Pakistan by GEO TV, VOA's affiliate and one of the country's most popular stations. Voice of America pays an undisclosed amount of money to GEO TV to telecast its broadcast but in spite of this arrangement has been forced to take off many of its programmes on numerous occasions due to conflicts with GEO TV management. This half-hour program features reports on politics, social issues, science, sports, culture, entertainment, and other issues of interest to Pakistanis as seen by the US government.
Programming
Voice of America's central newsroom has hundreds of journalists and dozens of full-time domestic and overseas correspondents, who are employees of the U.S. government or paid contractors. They are augmented by hundreds of contract correspondents and part-time "stringers" throughout the world, who file in English or in one of the VOA's 44 other radio broadcast languages, 25 of which are also broadcast on television.
In late 2005, VOA shifted some of its central-news operation to Hong Kong where contracted writers worked from a "virtual" office with counterparts on the overnight shift in Washington, D.C., but this operation was shut down in early 2008.
Many of the radio and television broadcasts are available through VOA's website at http://www.VOANews.com.
http://www.voanews.com/english/About/2005-11-10-voa69.cfm
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Voice_of_America
So please share your information on this matter.......
Urdu Service
The Voice of America program Khabron Se Aage (Beyond the Headlines) is telecast in Pakistan by GEO TV, VOA's affiliate and one of the country's most popular stations. Voice of America pays an undisclosed amount of money to GEO TV to telecast its broadcast but in spite of this arrangement has been forced to take off many of its programmes on numerous occasions due to conflicts with GEO TV management. This half-hour program features reports on politics, social issues, science, sports, culture, entertainment, and other issues of interest to Pakistanis as seen by the US government.
Programming
Voice of America's central newsroom has hundreds of journalists and dozens of full-time domestic and overseas correspondents, who are employees of the U.S. government or paid contractors. They are augmented by hundreds of contract correspondents and part-time "stringers" throughout the world, who file in English or in one of the VOA's 44 other radio broadcast languages, 25 of which are also broadcast on television.
In late 2005, VOA shifted some of its central-news operation to Hong Kong where contracted writers worked from a "virtual" office with counterparts on the overnight shift in Washington, D.C., but this operation was shut down in early 2008.
Many of the radio and television broadcasts are available through VOA's website at http://www.VOANews.com.
http://www.voanews.com/english/About/2005-11-10-voa69.cfm
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Voice_of_America
