I contacted the Voice of America and asked if the English service was
scheduled to be shut down. I received this reply:

"Thank you for your note about VOA English. In fact, the President's
budget proposal 2007 does call for the elimination of 14 hours a day of
VOA News Now, which is the Voice of America's daily broadcast offering
of English language news and features. That remains a proposal, and of
course the whole budget proposal is moving through Congress, where the
House has restored all of the English programming proposed to be cut.
The outcome of all of this is not known at this time, so I would suggest
that you stay tuned."

The House of Representatives appropriations bill would save VOA's
English service. The Senate bill has no provision tho. It has to go to
conference to be hammered out. So there is still a chance the VOA English
service could be saved. English to Africa and Special English are not to be
cut by the way.

If you think the VOA English service should be saved it is strongly
recommended you contact your two Senators. You can go to
http://www.senate.gov/ Up in the top right hand corner is a drop down menu
where you can find your two U.S. Senators.

Send them an e-mail asking them to keep the English service going. You
might want to mention that anti-Americanism seems to be on the rise, along
with terrorism. So broadcasting 24/7 every day from satellite, internet,
AM, FM, and shortwave in the home language of the target country and in
English can only help promote peace and understanding.