[kenglish]

Noticed a whole slew of Voice of America (VOA) channels just lit up on Galaxy-19, a few days ago.
I haven't seen any actual programming on them yet, just several different "barker" channels.

 

[kenglish]

They are gone now.
Doing some sleuthing, it turns out that it was an experiment, to see how much (or, little) bandwidth could be used for a video channels with "news-tickers", while linking to multiple audio channels.
Not being done to provide any USA domestic service.