RALEIGH, N.C. — Hold for release on Saturday, September 19 A corner of rural North Carolina is the last U.S. site transmitting that staple of Cold War spy movies — shortwave radio broadcasts from the Voice of America. Despite broadcast satellites and cell phones, miles of transmission towers spread across 2,700 acres east of Greenville are blasting radio waves into space that bounce back to Earth thousands of miles away. The taxpayer-funded transmission site near Greenville named for legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow is a holdover for the government broadcaster that has overwhelmingly gone digital or transmits from overseas sites. The former supervisor of a similar...
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