WorldNet (television)

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WorldNet is the American international television network. The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), an independent government agency, is responsible for this . This is the successor to the US Information Agency (USIA).

The program consists of a mix of in-house productions and acquisitions of other programs.

The in-house productions consist primarily of news (in different languages), the international talk show On The Line , the magazine Window on America (in different languages), programs about developments in certain regions (e.g. Africa Journal ) and the Special English Report , which consists of four simple texts each with a small basic vocabulary (approx. 1,500 words), is read out very slowly and the viewer is offered a kind of teleprompter.

Program acquisitions include

  • the main public service News Hour with Jim Lehrer ( PBS )
  • Acquisitions of Bloomberg Television US
  • Takeovers of C-SPAN (especially on weekends)
  • the morning (US time) business program First Business
  • the Nightly Business Report ( PBS )
  • Money Talks (Business Week TV)
  • the Connect with English language course (Annenberg Media)
  • the Crossroads Café language course
  • the history course Biography of America (Annenberg Media)
  • the political talk show McLaughlin Group
  • the political talk show Think Tank ( PBS )
  • To the Contrary ( PBS ), a political talk show with all female guests

In addition, there are a number of other series that are primarily produced for PBS and educational television.

There are different regional versions. The ProSieben predecessor Eureka TV took over parts of the program. Through a timeshare with TV5 on HotBird, there was a cable feed in Germany until the early 1990s. Lately the own productions operate under the label VoA News .

The program is distributed for Europe, Africa and the Middle and Middle East on Eutelsat Hotbird 13 ° East.