WorldNet (television)
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.