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It will try to be a Latin-American network, a media
alternative which was inaugurated in tribute to Simón Bolívar. The ambitious communicational project that has the principal backing of the Venezuelan government began to be broadcasted on the 24th of July from Caracas to other countries of the region. The installation of the network also has the support of the governments of Uruguay, Argentina and Cuba. The programming blocks will be retransmitted by Venezuela of Television, Vive TV and CATIA TV in Venezuela, and channel 7 of Argentina, TV Caribe in Colombia, Channel 5 in Uruguay and Community Television of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Aram Aharonian, the director, says the idea is to expand the signal of Telesur to the greatest number of places in Latin America. "It is the beginning of a new era of world television", he assures. For this, conversations are being held with cable operators in various countries and also with community, university, educational, public and regional televisions. The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez told, in his programme "Aló presidente": "we are going to get the CNN tyranny off our backs and of the other networks that throw poison and are subordinated to the world police and the big interests". The North American response didn't take long and the measure was so important that the Chamber of Representatives in the United States approved three days before the inauguration of the network, an amendment that allows transmissions of radio and television of 30 minutes a day to offer Venezuelans "precise and objective" information and counteract "the anti-Americanism" of Telesur. For Aharonian, the reaction of the United States is crude and attempts to frighten Latin American countries, in relation to a channel that hasn't even been on air yet. They are battling ghosts, since they don't even know the programming. With the motto "Our North is the South", Telesur will emit 24hs in Spanish with Portuguese subtitles for Brazilian viewers, with the programming centred on news bulletins and documentaries, but in which there will also be other spaces. A view at the grid: "Work and land" (tradition and modernity applied in agricultural work). "Master Life" (profiles of Latin American figures). "Sounds and Passions" (popular music). "Memories in development: Classic Latin American cinema) "Step Marker: Itinerary of Travels through Latin America", "Nojo-livud" (contemporary films alien to the Hollywood circuit) "Teleinsurgents" (social thought and action) |