Voice of America Bangla Radio

Voice of America (VOA) is the government own broadcaster of the United States of America. Voice of America broadcasts is distributed by satellite, FM, AM, and shortwave radio frequencies. They are streamed on individual language service websites, social media sites, and mobile platforms. Voice of America provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio and TV and the Internet outside of the U.S. in 43 languages. Among them, Voice of America Bangla broadcasts programs in the Bengali Language.

Voice of America began to broadcast in Bengali Language July 1954 from New York, USA. In the beginning years, Voice of America broadcasted Bengali programs once a week for 15 minutes. In 1957, the broadcast time was subsequently increased to 30 minutes a week. On 1st January of 1958 Voice of America, Bangla started to broadcast regular programs from Washington DC, USA. In that time, it featured two distinct 30 minutes programs for listeners in East Pakistan (Currently Bangladesh), and a program for the West Bengal, India. In 1966, Voice of America Bangla combined the two shows into one sixty-minute program. From April 20 of 1980 added a new 30 minutes program, the breakfast show in addition to the daily one-hour evening broadcast. The breakfast show became very popular due to the time difference between USA and Bangladesh. When the breakfast show started in the morning in the USA, due to the time difference it is peak hour in both Bangladesh and Indian State West Bengal.

Voice of America Bangla’s newsroom has many dedicated journalists and dozens of full-time domestic and overseas correspondents, who are employees of the U.S. government or paid contractors. Voice of America Bangla not only broadcasts news but also features programs which cover topics such as News Analysis, sports news, and analysis, Interviews of notable personalities, entertainment, health, science, technology, youth, education, career and many more for its listeners.