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A Bold New Vision: The VOA Radio Ring Plan and Global Broadcasting in the Early Cold War

In early 1948, roughly a year after the Voice of America (VOA) launched its Russian-language service, the Soviet Union began to jam official American broadcasts. Soviet jamming escalated dramatically in the late spring of 1949 as the nearly year-old Berlin blockade reached a climax. In spring 1950, officials in the State Department (the institutional home of the VOA) outlined a “Bold New Program” to expand radio transmissions to the Soviet Union.1 The project linked six high-powered shortwave transmitters on the East and West coasts of the United States with an overseas ring network of fourteen 1-megawatt (MW) medium-wave relay bases. According to VOA’s engineers, a network that ringed the Soviet Union would penetrate the Soviet electronic curtain with multiple signals and overwhelm its jamming transmitters through concurrent deployment of massive power at close range.