Media News - Friday, April 04, 2008
Cuba to open TV channel with foreign content
Cuba's state-run television broadcaster will start a 24-hour channel with mostly foreign content in a move to provide Cuban audiences with more variety. The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, ICRT, made the announcement on Wednesday at a conference of the Cuban writers and artists guild, where intellectuals have criticized the poor television programming in the socialist state. The opening up to additional foreign content on television comes at a time when Cuba's new President Raul Castro, who succeed his ailing brother Fidel Castro, has begun lifting what he has called ‘excessive prohibitions’ in the country. Since becoming Cuba's first new leader in almost half a century, his government has allowed Cubans to buy cellular phones, DVD players and computers, and stay at tourist hotels reserved for foreigners. ICRT vice president Luis Acosta said the new channel will have content from a dozen countries, but he did not give details. (Reuters)
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