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TeleSUR: 'El' Jazeera 'Television of the South'?

category international | arts and media | other press author Sunday July 17, 2005 16:28author by redjade Report this post to the editors

communication to become a two way street

''The network is to be jointly owned and funded by many countries: at first, Venezuela (51%), Argentina (20%), Cuba (19%), and Uruguay (10%), with other countries joining later. These countries as well as Brazil will collaborate on content and technology.'''
Above: VOA Satellite Footprints - TeleSUR a counter-hegemonic threat?
Above: VOA Satellite Footprints - TeleSUR a counter-hegemonic threat?

TeleSUR: 'El' Jazeera 'Television of the South'?

TeleSUR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur
'Proposed by Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, it is meant as a counterweight to popular privately-run networks in South America like CNN and Univision. It is also intended as a spur toward South American integration. The network is to be jointly owned and funded by many countries: at first, Venezuela (51%), Argentina (20%), Cuba (19%), and Uruguay (10%), with other countries joining later. These countries as well as Brazil will collaborate on content and technology.'

. . . . .

Telesur: "The Airwaves Are Falling!"
By Al Giordano
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/7/17/9548/56987
Telesur, the Latin America-wide TV station that is scheduled to begin broadcasting on July 24 with start-up funds from the governments of Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay and Cuba, is already worrying the anti-democracy crowd in the region....

That the media magnate Ravell doesn't want competition for his discredited TV network Globovision is understandable: oligarchs have grown soft and accustomed to being protected from competition. Despite their ideological rhetoric, they don't know how to compete in a widened free market of speech and ideas. But that Human Rights Watch's Jose Vivanco [ http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2004/VivancoTestimony040624.pdf ] is now attacking the Telesur network that he has never even seen on the air, in light of his three-year silence about the anti-democracy coup participation by Commercial media barons like Ravell, is yet another nail in the coffin of Human Rights Watch's dwindling credibility in Latin America.

Any authentic human rights advocate would cheer the expansion of free speech as represented by a new and different kind of TV network about to hit the airwaves. In a pluralist and open society, more media voices, not fewer, are desperately needed.


. . . . .


'El' Jazeera
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21988/

Described by its new director, Aram Aharonian, as South America's "first counter-hegemonic media project," Telesur reportedly has 20 employees but hopes to work its way up to at least 60. The Chavez government has coughed up $2.5 million for the project thus far and is permitting Telesur to operate as an affiliate of Venezuelan state television.

Telesur is painted in populist hues, befitting a World Social Forum keynoter. A kind of Al Jazeera of the South, the commercial-free, state-funded channel will beam news, documentaries and other programming with a uniquely Latin flavor. The network will be boosted by the presence of journalistic heavyweights -- among them, Jorge Enrique Botero, a well-known television producer known for his coverage of FARC rebels.

[....]

An article posted on a Venezuelan government web site refers to Al Jazeera's expansion into South America as "being framed within the Telesur-Al Jazeera project."

A spokesperson for Al Jazeera said he could not confirm that the two networks have signed any deals between them but said it is possible that the two state-funded enterprises could be cooperating logistically. Kozloff says it is his understanding that Telesur has entered a deal to extend office space to Al Jazeera in Telesur's headquarters.


. . . . .


The jump from alternative to massive
By: La Jornada
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1388

Aram Aharonian (Uruguayan journalist who will be the general director of this continental channel): “To begin with, Telesur will transmit three repeating eight-hour blocks from a 24-hour satellite channel. The majority of the production will be original. Emphasis will be on the informative: news, opinion programs, and interviews. Also, this will be amplified by audiovisual productions from all over the continent by those who wish to participate.”

Jorge Enrique Botero: (Colombian television producer) "First off, we are inventorying the quality of existing material. Next, we will launch a varied programming schedule that reflects our enormous diversity. In addition to having our own regular staff correspondents (in the United States, Mexico, Bogota, Caracas, Havana, Lima, Buenos Aires, and two in Brazil), we want to have a network of journalistic collaborators. We want to contract independent media that have outstanding editorial lines to be the station’s base of operations in their respective countries. In this way, every day, we will have at the news hour links with principle newspapers giving us a focus on events in Latin America. Also, we aspire to have our own agenda, touching on themes that quickly disappear off the radar of commercial media and that subsequently stop being news. We want to tell the stories from the beginning to the end, without disregard for the urgency of events, but not neglecting other criteria.”

. . . . .

Official Website
http://www.telesurtv.net

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   '513 years later, we are recovering the possibility of seeing ourselves with our eyes.'     redjade    Sun Jul 17, 2005 17:44 
   Newsweek: A Latin Al-Jazeera?     redjade    Sun Jul 17, 2005 17:47 
   Venezuela sets up 'CNN rival'     redjade    Sun Jul 17, 2005 17:50 
   the project which was launched earlier this year     iosaf    Sun Jul 17, 2005 19:43 
   Colombia pissed off: Sureshot debuts on Telesur     redjade    Wed Jul 20, 2005 00:16 
   anarchogeek has some ideas how to create an Indymedia TeleSur     redjade    Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:44 
   Chavez: 'they send us Superman, we will send them Tupac Amaru'     redjade    Thu Jul 21, 2005 14:18 
   from the Indy-Blogosphere: Frontiers in Indy TV     redjade    Thu Jul 21, 2005 14:42 
   The “threat” of Telesur     redjade    Fri Jul 22, 2005 15:43 
 10   Chávez says US could broadcast on existing Radio/TV stations     redjade    Fri Jul 22, 2005 16:11 
 11   Chavez 'to spread his anti-American, anti-freedom rhetoric'     redjade    Fri Jul 22, 2005 16:17 
 12   JD is on holidays ;-)     Moocha    Sun Jul 24, 2005 04:37 
 13   investors.com calls it 'Terrorist Television'     redjade    Sun Jul 24, 2005 16:30 
 14   Civil War Between Media from Below and Media from Above     redjade    Mon Jul 25, 2005 13:05 
 15   Democracy Now: Telesur Officially Launched     redjade    Wed Jul 27, 2005 13:32 
 16   4th Generation Warfare against TeleSur     redjade    Wed Jul 27, 2005 13:34 
 17   Tariq Ali on Telesur's advisory board     redjade    Wed Jul 27, 2005 13:40 
 18   Bush Appoints Propaganda Czar - Will she control VOA?     redjade    Thu Jul 28, 2005 14:24 
 19   Telesur and Al-Jazeera to Collaborate?     redjade    Fri Jul 29, 2005 14:42 
 20   TELESUR     Comandante Subzero    Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:58 
 21   Voice of Imperialism     Comandante Subzero    Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:04 
 22   US Corpo Propaganda about non-US Propaganda     redjade    Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:16 
 23   Claim: Colombia Jams Telesur Signal     redjade    Fri Aug 05, 2005 13:01 
 24   Every week, on Sunday Morning Venezualans get to watch "alo presidente!"     square eyes    Mon Aug 22, 2005 17:26 
 25   telsur--a great step By latin america to get out of angloamerican hegemony     avatar singh    Sat Oct 01, 2005 00:26 
 26   telsur-great t.v. channel to smash angloamerican terrorism     avatar singh    Sat Oct 01, 2005 00:29 
 27   How england exploits even usa.-this great anglosaxon paraisitism     avatar singh    Sat Oct 01, 2005 00:31 


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