VOA PROGRAMS AND FREQUENCIES
VOA Programs and Radio Frequencies
Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts around the world, but not inside the United States due to provisions of the Smith-Mundt Act passed in 1948.
Radio frequencies used by our language services adjust at least twice a year at time change, can be added or dropped, or changed to improve reception.
If you are interested in finding out the most up-to-date program and frequency information of one or all of VOA's 43 languages, they are listed below, alphabetically by region.
- Afan Oromo
- Amharic
- English
- Learning English
- French
- Hausa
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirundi
- Ndebele
- Portuguese
- Shona
- Somali
- Swahili
- Tigrigna
- Zimbabwe (English)
Africa
- Creole
- Learning English
- Spanish
Americas
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Azeri
- English
- Learning English
- Georgian
- Kurdi
- Kurdish
- Pashto
- Pashto-Deewa
- Persian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
Middle East & Central Asia
- Burmese
- Chinese
- Cantonese
- English
- Learning English
- Indonesian
- Khmer
- Khmer (English)
- Korean
- Lao
- Mandarin
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Tibetan (English)
- Vietnamese
East Asia
- Bangla
- Dari
- English
- Learning English
South Asia
Happy Anniversary, VOA!
Visit our 70th anniversary site - learn more about VOA past and present, hear from previous directors and employees, and discover some of VOA's unique elements.
Studio Tour
Participate in the Voice of America's 70th anniversary year by visiting and taking our Studio Tour. It's a behind-the-scenes look at live broadcasting in radio, television, and the Internet, in several of our 43 languages. Make your reservation today!
Willis Conover
Willis Conover (1920-1996) was one of VOA's treasures, an internationally-known jazz aficionado, well-connected within the jazz community but little-known in the United States.