About Summary
IBB’s rapidly growing, multi-media affiliate network offers vast audiences a wide range of program and content options that are placed by BBG’s marketing team. Located in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, our team targets high impact affiliations with major television networks, prominent internet portals and local AM and FM stations. Our affiliates provide prime time, U.S. international broadcasting live simulcasts and webstreams, as well as pre-recorded programming. Affiliate agreements bring customer commitment, service and success, as we engage new broadcast partners and strengthen longstanding relationships. Our media development team forges partnerships with U.S. government agencies, non-governmental organizations, foundations and commercial and public broadcasters to create programs that support democratic institutions, good governance, the free flow of information and the free enterprise system. Contact us to learn more about becoming an affiliate.
Types of Relationships
TV/Video
Our television programming reaches an estimated audience of 92 million people weekly, in significant markets. Our audiences are up substantially in Iran, where more than 10 million people watch or hear BBG programs, and in other key countries including Libya, and Ethiopia.
Radio
Radio broadcasts reach more than 95 million people per week. In FY 2012, we enhanced our distribution network, adding new FM transmitters in key cities in Libya and Afghanistan.
Web
Our Internet audience is between 12 and 13 million each week, with the largest measured in Iraq, at 2.7 million. Increasingly, international media outlets are affiliating with us via VOA Direct, our online, audio/video digital distribution system that provides short form programming in multiple languages. VOA Direct and our growing menu of publishing opportunities through affiliate partner web sites, blogs, social networks, mobile applications and distribution to emerging connected devices are helping BBG reach new audiences.
Training
Programs include conferences, events and public meetings that provide basic journalism “best practices,” as well as courses on broadcasting, health, education, sales and marketing, business management, newsroom management, disaster preparedness and technical skills. Trainees include radio and television correspondents, Internet journalists, editors, producers, engineers, announcers and managers. The office works in countries across Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
