The Broadcasting Board of Governors must take additional steps to...
The Broadcasting Board of Governors must take additional steps to address overlap in international broadcasting, a GAO report found. Nearly two-thirds of the BBG language services overlap with another BBG service “by providing programs to the same countries in the…
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same languages,” the report said (http://xrl.us/bodebw). Although some BBG officials said some overlap helps provide news from various sources in countries of strategic interest, they also acknowledged that overlap reduces funding available for broadcasts that may have more impact, it said. BBG’s annual service review “does not systematically consider the cost and impact of overlap,” GAO said. GAO recommended that BBG consider the cost of overlap and the activities of other international broadcasters in its annual language service reviews.