teleSUR
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| Type | Television Network |
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| Branding | teleSUR |
| Availability | Latin America, United States, Caribbean and Europe |
| Slogan | "Nuestro Norte es el Sur" (Our North is the South) |
| Owner |  Argentina (founder) Bolivia (since 2006) Cuba (founder) Ecuador (since 2007) Nicaragua (since 2007) Uruguay (founder) Venezuela (founder) |
| Key people | Andrés Izarra, President |
| Launch date | July 24, 2005 |
| Analog channel | 51 (Venezuela) |
| Website http://www.telesurtv.net/ |
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La Nueva Televisora del Sur (Spanish for "The New Television Station of the South"), named teleSUR, is a pan-Latin American television network based in Caracas, Venezuela. It began broadcasting on a limited schedule on July 24, 2005, and began full-time broadcasts on October 31, 2005.
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Proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, teleSUR is intended to be a counterweight to popular privately run networks in South America such as CNN en Español. It is also intended as a spur toward Latin American integration. The network is funded with US$10 million provided by the countries that jointly own the network: Venezuela (a 41 percent share), Argentina (20 percent), Cuba (19 percent), Uruguay (10 percent), Bolivia, Ecuador (a 5 percent share) and Nicaragua. The network started in February 2008 to broadcast some programming to Brazil in Portuguese [1].
TeleSUR's advisory council is formed by many international and regional leftist intellectuals, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, poet Ernesto Cardenal, writers Eduardo Galeano, Tariq Ali, Saul Landau, editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique and historian Ignacio Ramonet, free software pioneer Richard Stallman and actor Danny Glover. TeleSUR's current president is Andrés Izarra, who briefly served as Minister of Communication and Information (MCI) in Venezuela's government. Izarra is also a veteran journalist and has worked for NBC's defunct Canal de Noticias NBC based at the NBC Newschannel Headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. He then moved on to CNN en Español and Radio Caracas Television, a private Venezuelan network.
The station promises to be an alternative to large media conglomerates like CNN, Univisión and BBC, and has taken on the slogan "News from the South." It can be seen in at least 15 countries through at least 53 cable services, as well as five free stations. TeleSUR runs public service announcements and musical interludes instead of commercials. The news channel has 160 employees and correspondents in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Uruguay, the United States and Venezuela.
| TeleSUR Advisory Committee | ||
| Tariq Ali | ||
| Ernesto Cardenal | ||
| Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | ||
| Eduardo Galeano | ||
| Danny Glover | ||
| Saul Landau | ||
| Ignacio Ramonet | ||
| Richard Stallman | ||
[edit] U.S. reaction
A week before the network began broadcasting, the United States House of Representatives voted on House Resolution 2601. Amendment A024 was introduced by Connie Mack IV, a Republican of Florida's fourteenth congressional district. The amendment was introduced as:
- "An amendment numbered 25 printed in part B of House Report 109-175 to authorize the Broadcasting Board of Governors to initiate radio and television broadcasts to Venezuela for at least 30 minutes a day of balanced, objective, and comprehensive news programming."
Mack later criticized a February 2006 agreement between the Qatar-based network al-Jazeera and Telesur [2].
[edit] Programs
- Noticias desde el Sur: Latin American news from the network's headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela with 10 correspondents and 35 collaborators in countries throughout the region.
- Mesa Redonda Internacional – Political and social analysis program, produced for teleSUR by the Cuban Television Information Service.
- Resumen Aló presidente: offers an abridged version of the program hosted by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
- Agenda del Sur: Morning news and talk show.
- Memorias del Fuego: Documentary program which broadcasts independent documentaries about contemporary Latin America.
- Videoteca contracorriente: Interviews with conteporary Latin American leaders and personalities, developed with a critical and progressive view.
- Maestra vida: Biographies of Latin American personalities.
- America Tierra Nuestra: Documentaries about Latin American culture and folklore.
- De este lado: Political and social analysis program produced in México and hosted by journalist Blanche Petrich.
- Mediotanque: Documentary program about the life and culture of Uruguay.
- CineSur: Latin American cinema.
- Sones y Pasiones: Documentary program about the music of Latin America and its performers.
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[edit] External links
- Official Site To watch live streaming broadcasts press "Señal en Vivo" (Spanish)
- Alternate link to teleSUR webcast (in Italian)
- "TeleSUR transmitirá en canal abierto en Nicaragua" (In Spanish)
- "Telesur opens signal in Portuguese for Brazil" February 13, 2008
- House Bill H.R.2601 (entire legislation to which Mack amendment was introduced) The Library of Congress
- "Telesur tested by Chávez video", November 22, 2005 The Christian Science Monitor
- "Venezuela's Telesur Cable News Network", August 2, 2005 NPR's Talk of the Nation
- "Telesur keen on Aljazeera link up", July 28, 2005 Al-Jazeera
- "New Venezuelan TV network for Latin America outrages Washington", July 28, 2005 Pravda.ru
- "New Latin American Television Network Telesur Officially Launched", July 26, 2005 Democracy Now! Features interview with Andres Izarra
- "First broadcast for Latin channel", July 24, 2005 BBC News
- "Venezuela Launches Cable News Station", July 18, 2005 NPR's Morning Edition
- "'El' Jazeera", May 13, 2005 Alternet
- "Latin America’s Telesur: The 'Al Jazeera' of the South", August 22, 2005.
- "Venezuela sets up 'CNN rival'", August 14, 2006
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