VOA reports: A satellite provider for Voice of America and the BBC says broadcasts in the Middle East and Europe were deliberately jammed this week by interfering signals coming from Syria.
Many programs have been impacted, including some of VOA’s foreign-language services and BBC television and radio services in English and Arabic.
The French-based satellite provider Eutelsat told VOA the disruptive interference emanated from Syria.
Vanessa O’Connor, a spokeswoman for Eutelsat, said “deliberate … intermittent” satellite jamming of several international broadcasters has been detected since the beginning of this week. She said Eutelsat used “localization technology” to confirm that the source of the signal jamming was in Syria.