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International Broadcasting Act

International Broadcasting Act is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand International Broadcasting Act rather than just read about it. In short: The United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, signed in law in 1994 by U.S. president Bill Clinton, was meant to streamline the U.S. international broadcasting and provide a cost-effective way to continue Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and Radio Marti. It placed control of the international broadcasting under the United States Information Agency.

Key takeaways

International Broadcasting Act belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect International Broadcasting Act to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of International Broadcasting Act from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, signed in law in 1994 by U.S. president Bill Clinton, was meant to streamline the U.S. international broadcasting and provide a cost-effective way to continue Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and Radio Marti. It placed control of the international broadcasting under the United States Information Agency.

History In 1958, President Eisenhower in an address to the United Nations proposed monitoring radio broadcasts:

I believe that this Assembly should ... consider means for monitoring the radio broadcasts directed across national frontiers in the troubled Near East area. It should then examine complaints from these nations which consider their national security jeopardized by external propaganda. In the 1960s, President Kennedy to build an international broadcasting arm of the United States to as a way to promote foreign policy and overthrow communism. In 1976, President Gerald Ford signed the Voice of America charter that established it as the leading branch of US international broadcasting. In 1993, the Clinton Administration proposed cutting the budget for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in order to reduce budget expenditures. However, after working with the Congress, the International Broadcasting Act was born.

Original law This Act (Public Law 103-236) consolidated all non-military, U.S. Government international broadcast services under a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and also created the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB). The BBG is an independent government agency created to replace the Board for International Broadcasting and consolidate Voice of America broadcasting. In this law, the president appoints one member of the board as the chairman of the board. The Secretary of State also serves on the board. Besides combining current radio service, this act also created the Radio Free Asia – a network aimed at Burma, China, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.

Congressional updates In September 2009, the 111th Congress amended the International Broadcasting Act to allow a one-year extension of the operation of Radio Free Asia. In 2002, the Act was amended to include the Radio Free Afghanistan. In May 1994, the president announce the continuation of Radio Free Asia after 2009 was dependent on its increased international broadcasting and ability to reach its audience.

References

External links Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 as amended (PDF/details) in the GPO Statute Compilations collection Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 as enacted (details) in the US Statutes at Large H.R. 2333 on Congress.gov

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with International Broadcasting Act

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what International Broadcasting Act claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to International Broadcasting Act before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about International Broadcasting Act ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of International Broadcasting Act

In research: International Broadcasting Act appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses International Broadcasting Act in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: International Broadcasting Act is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 103rd United States Congress, International broadcasting, Public diplomacy of the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for International Broadcasting Act outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study International Broadcasting Act in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does International Broadcasting Act matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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