Blitz editor on VOA

Srabanti Majumder

Voice of America [VOA] television recorded a 22-minute program on Weekly Blitz editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury during his recent visit to United States. The program will be broadcast on Friday 9:00 am [Bangladesh time] and subsequently repeated for the entire week.

We wanted to send you the link to VOA website, so that you can watch the show on the internet if our readers would like to. If you go to the following link: 
http://www.voanews.com/ontheline/
and click on the bar at the far right of the screen, your Real player should come up and you should be able to watch the show. There may be news at the top of the hour, so just fast forward through that and the show will come on right after it. The program will start its web
broadcast Thursday night and be available all week. Here's an alternate link for that also: 
http://www.voanews.com/english/webcasts.cfm
The show will also start it's television broadcast Thursday night. It goes out worldwide on our satellite system.

03:06 UTC Friday -- AF/IOR/EU/AS 
10:30 UTC Friday -- 340 -- The State Department satellite  
21:30 UTC Friday -- AF/IOR/EU/AS
03:06 UTC Saturday -- AF/IOR/EU/AS 

Full names of satellites: 

AF= Intelsat 907 AOR/East Hemi
IOR=New Skies 703 IOR 57E
EU= Eutelsat Hot Bird 3  
AS= Asia Sat 2       
VOA's full TV schedule is listed at the following address: 
http://ibb7-2.ibb.gov/tvschedule/
Our valued readers will need to determine which satellite they want by looking at the footprint. Just click on view satellite map to get the global reach. 
The show will also go out on News Now English radio at 400 UTC and 1400 UTC Saturday, and 400 UTC and 1500 UTC Sunday.  
http://www.voanews.com/english/About/upload/EnglishWorldwide_May2006.pdf

Weekly Blitz shall be delighted to hear the opinion of our readers after they have watched or listened to the program.

It may be mentioned here that, Wall Street Journal’s celebrated columnist Bret Stephens also took an interview of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, which is available at the Wall Street Journal website at opinion section. This is another video interview.

US newspaper Jewish Voice and Opinion has published a detailed article on Choudhury in their August issue. Moreover, Jewish Exponent [Philadelphia] is also going to publish an exclusive interview of Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Jewish Exponent reporter Bryan Schwartzman took this interview. New York based Mirror will also publish Choudhury’s interview.

During the recent trip, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury was interviewed by a number of radio shows in United States including ABC Radio in New York.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury went to United States on July 29 on a 7-day tour. He visited Washington, Baltimore, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia and delivered speeches. 

Choudhury received key of the Englewood town from its Mayor Michael J. Wildes and a plaque from Mayor of Teaneck town from Mayor Elie Y. Katz. He also received a key of Cherry Hill, New Jersey from Veterans Association [WWII] councilor Edgar Wolf Jr.

Mayor of Englewood and Teaneck described Choudhury as the most courageous voice in the Muslim world. They assured all possible cooperation in continuing his efforts in promoting inter-faith understanding and confronting religious hatred.

Veterans Association [WWII] councilor Edgar Wolf Junior said, today’s world needs more voice like Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury for ensuring global peace.