After 72 year of broadcasts, the Greek Service of the Voice of America will end its operation.

The final broadcast will be on Tuesday morning via Greek Skai.

According to gr.voanews.com, the Greek service will end broadcasts as a result of budget cuts at the American news agency.

The Greek service was one of the first services of the Voice of America, which begun broadcasting in 1942.

The service has since covered many important international and US developments in relation to Greece and Cyprus.

Voice of America (VOA) is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government.
It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA provides programming for broadcast on radio, TV and the internet outside of the U.S., in 43 languages.

It produces about 1,500 hours of news and feature programming each week for an estimated global audience of 123 million people and it aims “to promote freedom and democracy and to enhance understanding through multimedia communication of accurate, objective, and balanced news, information and other programming about America and the world to audiences overseas.”