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David Byrd is a two-decade veteran of radio news and programming. David joined VOA in 1989 and has hosted sports segments on many VOA Programs, including World Report, Report to the Americas, Caribbean Report, VOA Today, and Asia Report.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Byrd has served on the Voice of America sports desk covering such events as the 1992, 1994 and 1996 Olympics, including the bombing in Centennial Park in Atlanta in 1996. He has also covered the 1994 Soccer World Cup in the United States, the NFL Super Bowl, the major league baseball World Series, the World Track and Field Championships, the World Basketball Championships and the Pan American Games.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Byrd began working as a broadcaster in his home state of North Carolina in 1978. He has held posts in several commercial radio stations in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. He was also an international radio broadcaster for the Voice of America in Washington. He is also a musician and has worked in Washington Shakespeare Theatre. He and his wife, Cornelia, live in Virginia. He has a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism from West Virginia University and he studied journalism at Regent University in 1986.

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