Broadcasting Board of Governors

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), founded in 1994 via the U.S. International Broadcasting Act, was a U.S. government agency overseeing nonmilitary international broadcasting. It managed entities like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and Office of Cuba Broadcasting, providing programming in over 56 languages via radio, TV, internet, and satellite. The bipartisan board of nine members—eight presidential appointees and the Secretary of State ex officio—set strategy and policy. No records link BBG to UAP/UFO research or government programs in related fields. Reforms in 2016-2017 shifted to CEO leadership; the board disbanded in 2020, succeeded by the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) with an advisory board.