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The VOA, which will adjudicate on the appeals until it is scrapped in 2026, told the BBC it was "acutely aware of the difficult economic situation faced by some customers".

But VOA never stopped broadcasting.

This week, for the first time since it started operations in 1942, the VOA is almost entirely silent.

Viewers and listeners primarily hear canned music or see a screen that simply says “VOA will serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news.”

VOA and the other U.S. international broadcasters have a regular audience that has been growing rapidly.