Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996 Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996 are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information. FBIS will be of particular interest to anyone studying the Cold War and other major post-World War II events.