While the Bush administration proposed cutting funding to public broadcasting in the United States by more than half, it increased the budget for broadcasting to the Middle East and elsewhere.

According to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees government-supported nonmilitary broadcasts —VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for example — it was given a 2.6% increase in its budget to $699.5 million.

Much of the new focus will be on building out its Web presence, the BBG said, in part to help circumvent jamming of its broadcasts.

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