Cuba will take from this semester a new television channel that will operate 24 hours and whose programming will include material from foreign companies as Televisión Española, Discovery, Telesur and Venezolana de Television, informed the local press here Saturday.
The President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), Ernesto Lopez, quoted by the official newspaper Juventud Rebelde, said the new channel "can be seen in a first step, for 50% of the population of the island."
Lopez made the announcement at the Commission of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Parliament, one month after the ICRT has received much criticism in Congress 7 of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
The programming of state television was accused of being superficial, boring and bad play of foreign models, also has little domestic production.
In Cuba, there are now four national channels: Cubavisión, Tele Rebelde and Educational 1 and 2.
A fifth channel, Cubavisión International, conveys to the outside, but inside the country reaches cable to hotels, foreign companies and diplomatic delegations.
Also, there are regional channels in each province that work eight hours a day.
Source: EFE, Terra
The President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), Ernesto Lopez, quoted by the official newspaper Juventud Rebelde, said the new channel "can be seen in a first step, for 50% of the population of the island."
Lopez made the announcement at the Commission of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Parliament, one month after the ICRT has received much criticism in Congress 7 of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
The programming of state television was accused of being superficial, boring and bad play of foreign models, also has little domestic production.
In Cuba, there are now four national channels: Cubavisión, Tele Rebelde and Educational 1 and 2.
A fifth channel, Cubavisión International, conveys to the outside, but inside the country reaches cable to hotels, foreign companies and diplomatic delegations.
Also, there are regional channels in each province that work eight hours a day.
Source: EFE, Terra
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