“These broadcasts will offer more opportunities for our audiences in Russia and Central Asia to receive the latest Washington and world news from the Voice of America on television as well as through radio and the Internet,” said VOA Director David S. Jackson.
Focus airs daily at 1500 UTC and 1630 UTC on Eutelsat Hotbird, and at 1630 UTC on Asiasat. Downlink information:
| Eutelsat Hotbird 3 Digital | Asiasat 2 Digital |
| 13 Degrees East | 100.5 Degrees East |
| Freq:12.226 GHz | Polarization: Horizontal |
| FEC: 3/4 | Downlinking Freq: 3880 MHz |
| Symbol Rate: 27.5 MS/s | FEC: 1/2 |
| Typical L-band Freq: 1476 MHz | Symbol Rate: 24.6 MS/s |
| Local Oscillator (LO) freq: 10.75GHz | |
| Signal Polarization: Vertical Network ID#1: | |
| H-pol setting to provide 19V to LNB for High Ku-band. | |
| -OR- | |
| Network ID#4: V-pol setting to provide 13V for polarizer control |
Focus joins the popular VOA Russian program Window on the World, a weekly half-hour TV magazine program airing on Russia’s TV-3. VOA also airs 3 hours of Russian-language programming daily on shortwave. Programs are available live and on demand at their web page www.VOANews.com/Russian.
The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of 100 million people. Programs are produced in Russian and 43 other languages.
For more information, call the Office of Public Affairs at (202) 401-7000, or e-mail publicaffairs@voa.gov.
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