Technical Paper:

International Broadcast
Bureau
Submitted by:
Daria, Deo Ramil
Ledesma, Hector III
Paclibar, Eleazar Marvin

Submitted to:
Engr. Sacramento

July 1, 2014
The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)
The international Broadcasting Bureau, an official service
of the United States Government, is the global radio network
of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. It seeks to promote
understanding of the United States, its people, culture, and
policies. During more than 1,281 hours each week, the IBB
broadcasts news features, commentaries, and editorial
roundups in English and 53 other languages. In addition to its
direct broadcast, several local affiliate radio stations in the
Philippines and local radio stations in other countries often
rebroadcast IBB programs.
24-hours a day, a steady stream of copy, flows from a
wide variety of sources into the IBB newsroom in Washington,
DC. Besides using international news services, the IBB has its
own correspondents based in news centers around the world.
From these sources, writers and editors compose a continuous
24-hour news file which is broadcasted in English and
transmitted for all IBB's foreign language services. The IBB
program material is currently received in the Philippines at the
Tinang site, utilizing a direct DS3 Fiber Connection from
Washington DC, to the Philippines, or via the IOR (Indian
Ocean Region), or Asia Satellite thru the Kuwait Transmitting
Station Gateway.

History
The Broadcasting Board Governors (BBG) became
the independent entity responsible for all U.S. Government

and
government-sponsored,
non-military,
broadcasting on October 1, 1999.

international

With enactment of the 1998 Foreign Affairs Reform and

Restructuring Act (Public Law 105-277), the BBG assumed
authority for the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) and
its broadcasting services the Voice of America (VOA) and the
Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB). The Board also oversees
three grantee organizations, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), and the Middle East
Broadcasting Networks (MBN).
IBB (International Broadcast Bereau) started
broadcasting right after the WWII from transmitters located in
Malolos, Bulacan. The Baguio and Poro Plants became
operational in October 1953 and the Tinang site went on air in
May 1969. When Tinang became operational, the Malolos
Plant was transferred to the Philippine government. Baguio
Receiver Plant ceased operation after the July 16, 1990
earthquake.

Location
IBB Philippines has 2 sites.
1.) A transmitter plant (MW) in Poro Point, San Fernando,
La Union at the former Wallace Air Station, situated
approximately 180 miles north of Manila.
2.) A large shortwave transmitter plant in Tinang,
Conception, Tarlac, situated approximately 112 km north
of Manila.

It
is
nearly 24,000 acres or 972 hectares of land located in the
province of Tarlac, and surrounded by thousands of acres of
sugarcane fields and rice paddies. The antenna field, with its
15 miles of transmission lines, is in the lower segment of a
triangle by the towns of Tarlac, Concepcion and Capas.
On Site Locations:

Tower of Power (TV, FM) (GMA Network, Inc.)

Millennium Transmitter (TV) (ABS-CBN Corporation)

Transmitter Tower (TV) (ABC Development Corporation)
Transmitter Tower (TV) (Radio Philippines Network)
Tinang (SW) (Relay station IBB)
Malolos (SW)
America)

(Relay

station Radyo

Pilipinas, Voice

of

 Malolos (MW) (Radyo Veritas, Transmitter No. 1

demolished because of mall construction, Transmitter No.
2 still functional)
Malolos (MW) (PBS, houses both DZRB and DZSR)
Bocaue (SW) (Relay stationFEBC)
Bocaue (MW) (FEBC, houses DZAS)
Iba (SW) (Relay station FEBC)

Poro Point (SW) (Relay station IBB)

As owned by the United States of America Government, the

IBB has some international sites, namely, in Saipan, Tinian,
and Iranawila all in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Organizational
Chart
Rather
than
maintaining a BBC-like
single and powerful US
broadcasting station for
international audiences,
the
previous
Board
members had created a
number of privately-run
broadcasting entities to
benefit
private
contractors,
including
their
friends
and
associates, at the cost
of millions of dollars to
US taxpayers, while at
the
same
time
eliminating or reducing
Voice
of
America
broadcasting
services
to countries like Russia,
Georgia, and Ukraine.

The Deputy Director of the International Broadcast

Bureau all over the world, is Jeffery N. Trimble.

The IBB Deputy Director works with the Global Strategy

team, focusing on special projects that advance
collaboration and coordination across the BBG. Trimble
provides strategic editorial guidance to enhance BBG
content in an environment of increasing global competition.

Mission
IBBs Mission
IBB transmits programs from the two sites in the following
languages: English, Chinese/Mandarin, Chinese/Cantonese,
Thai, Russian, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Bangla, Korean,
Indonesian, Burmese, and Tibetan. The target audiences of
broadcasts transmitted from Tinang encompass the Russian
Far East, China, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific
Ocean. The Poro facility transmits to audiences in Vietnam,
China, and Southeast Asia. Languages broadcast from the

Poro site include Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, and

English.

BBGs Mission
The BBGs mission is to inform, engage and connect
people around the world in support of freedom and
democracy.

Services & Programs

15 IBB language broadcast are transmitted from the
twelve 250,000 watt shortwave transmitters and three 50,000
watt shortwave transmitters at Tinang (115 hours) daily
All IBB programs originate from studios in Washington
and are relayed to the Philippines through Satellite
Interconnect System circuits. Aside from IBB programs, the
host government, Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) has a
10.5 hour of broadcast time daily in English and Filipino. PBS
program is received at Tinang via PLDT line and VSAT from
PBS main Studios.