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Welcome to program 163 of VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Washington.

Here is the lineup for today's program, all in MFSK32 except
where noted:

  1:34 Program preview (now)
  2:46 Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile*
  8:42 UK government review of the BBC*
14:29 RFE/RL Crimea website blocked*
18:35 Radio/TV Martí now receiving letters direct from Cuba*
23:11 Image from South Pole Journal*
26:36 Closing announcements*
28:15 Olivia 64-2000: Transmission schedule under music

* with image


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VOA NEWS

Scientists Expect 'Unexpected' from Largest Ground-based
Telescope

George Putic
May 07, 2016

The mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope that gave the world
stunning pictures of deep space is about 4.5 square meters.

Compare that with the primary mirror of the James Webb Space
Telescope, which will be 25 square meters — and which is creating
big expectations for even higher-quality results when it is
deployed in 2018.

But both will be dwarfed by the Giant Magellan Telescope, which
is under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert. Its mirror array
covers about 368 square meters.

By looking at different parts of the visible and infrared
spectrums, the two new telescopes will complement each other,
Magellan Telescope director Patrick McCarthy said.

'Complete picture'

"The two working together, I think, will give us a complete
picture, whether we are looking at planets around nearby stars,
black holes in the centers of other galaxies, or back to that
early universe that we call the First Light, when we see the
first stars in the first galaxies," McCarthy said.

To isolate it from vibrations, the 1,200-ton telescope will rest
on an oil flotation bearing system, completely free of any
friction. A range of cameras and spectrographs will record and
dissect the received light, looking for signatures of atoms and
molecules. And the light coming from billions of kilometers away
may be impossibly faint.

"The photons come in once every 15 to 20 minutes, so it takes a
long time to collect that light," McCarthy said. "In our case, we
think we'll get a few photons a minute, but you need hundreds to
get a good signal, so it just takes patience."

What to expect

But with a telescope sensitive enough to detect a birthday candle
on the moon, nobody knows what to expect.

"The most important is the unexpected," McCarthy said. "The new
discoveries, the unanticipated breakthroughs. That's always been
the story of astronomy. When you build a new capability, young
people find things that either no one expected, or they prove
that their elders were wrong."

The $1 billion joint project of the U.S., Australia, Brazil,
South Korea and Chile is expected to open for the first
observations by 2022 and be fully operational by 2026.

http://www.voanews.com/content/largest-ground-based-telescope-under-construction/3319044.html

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BBC Faces Major Overhaul, But Its Worst Fears Not Realized

Reuters via voanews.com
May 12, 2016

LONDON - Britain stepped back from cutting the size and scope of
the BBC on Thursday after the publicly-funded broadcaster and
some of its biggest stars had accused ministers of threatening
the independence of the 94-year-old institution.

Unveiling its once-in-a-decade review, the government said a new
governing body would be created to oversee the BBC, and the
salaries of its best-paid employees would be made public to
improve transparency and address concerns that Britain's biggest
player in TV, radio and online news stifles rivals.

But the government avoided more extreme measures such as allowing
ministers to tell the BBC what to air during prime-time TV
periods such as Saturday nights, or forcing it to hand over some
of its income, derived from a levy paid by nearly every
household, to other commercial broadcasters.

"The BBC is one of the country's greatest institutions. It is our
overriding aim to ensure that the BBC continues to thrive in a
media landscape that has changed beyond recognition since the
last charter review 10 years ago," Culture Secretary John
Whittingdale told parliament.

The BBC's extensive services, estimated to reach 97 percent of
Britons each week, are funded by a guaranteed income of 3.7
billion pounds ($5.35 billion) from a license fee imposed on all
TV-watching homes.

It is fiercely resistant to any change that it says would make it
less popular with the public who pay for it.

Critics, however, say it is a bloated organization that swamps
commercial rivals, for example in providing free and extensive
online news and information, meaning many commercial groups
struggle to charge for their content.

Others have said its news coverage is politically biased,
although critics disagree as to whether it is biased to the right
or to the left.

"There has been a big debate about the future of the BBC," BBC
Director-General Tony Hall said. "Searching questions have been
asked about its role and its place in the UK. That's right and
healthy, and I welcome that debate."

Whittingdale said the BBC Trust, its governing body, would be
replaced with a new unitary board which would still allow the
corporation to appoint a majority of members to ensure
independence.

External regulation will be handed to Ofcom, the communications
watchdog which oversees commercial broadcasters, he said.

http://www.voanews.com/content/bbc-faces-major-overhaul-but-its-worst-fears-not-realized/3327292.html

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From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

Russia-Backed Authorities Block Access To RFE/RL's Crimea Website

By RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
12.05.2016

Pro-Russian authorities in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula have
blocked access to RFE/RL's Crimea news website, Krym.Realii.

Web users in Ukraine, Russia, and Russia-annexed Crimea
complained on May 12 that the site was inaccessible.

Instead, a notice appears saying, "Access denied, as the site has
been added to the list of banned sites."

"This is an aggressive act that uses the outrageous pretext of
extremism to censor RFE/RL and prevent audiences in Russia and
Crimea from learning the truth about the annexation," RFE/RL
Editor in Chief Nenad Pejic said in a statement on May 12.

"We condemn it as an attack on RFE/RL's operations and the
public's fundamental right to freely access information," he
added.

The de facto prosecutor of Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, said on
May 12 that Russia's Internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, had
launched measures to block and shut down the site.

But Roskomnadzor's spokesman said on May 12 that only one page on
the Krym.Realii website -- an interview with a leader of the
Crimean Tatars' self-governing body, the Mejlis -- was blocked.

Crimea's Moscow-backed Supreme Court branded the Mejlis as an
extremist organization and officially banned it in April.

Russia has been heavily criticized by international rights groups
and Western governments for its treatment of Crimean Tatars since
the annexation of the peninsula in March 2014.
With reporting by TASS and Interfax

http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-crimea-website-blocked/27730257.html

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Martís Receiving Audience Letters Directly From Cuba for First
Time

Broadcasting Board of Governors Highlights
May 11, 2016

In March, direct mail was restored between the United States and
Cuba for the first time in a half century as part of a renewal of
ties between the long-time adversaries.

The Martís [Radio and TV Martí] have since received dozens of
letters directly from their audience members on the island.
Previously, the letters had to make their way through a number of
countries before reaching OCB headquarters in Miami. Most of the
letters sent to the Martís address OCB programming and employees,
thanking them for their great work in bringing news and
information to people in Cuba. A Radio Martí listener in Cardenas
in the province of Matanzas, for example, wrote in the letter
below that she loves Martí programming and walks 12 blocks to get
to a radio owned by one her friends in order to listen to the
shows. She requested a radio, and the Martís promptly responded
by sending it to her. Through letters, social media and phone
calls, the Martís have received 50-57 requests for radios in
recent months.

Some of the letters also provide suggestions for new programming,
reports on signal strength and details on everyday necessities of
life on the island that audience members want to make the Martís
aware of.

http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2016/05/11/martis-receiving-audience-letters-directly-from-cuba-for-first-time/

Image: The Director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Maria
"Malule" González, with some of the many letters the Martís have
received since direct mail was restored in March between the U.S.
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Image: "After weeks of darkness at the South Pole, a full moon
seems nearly as bright as the sun." From Refael Klein's South
Pole Journal, VOA Science World Blog, 3 May 2016:
http://bit.ly/1rImcAX

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