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Venezuela steps up control of television, radio Thu Jul 9, 2009 2:39pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5686HU20090709 CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela is taking dozens of radio stations off the air and putting stricter rules on cable and satellite television, a minister said on Thursday, part of President Hugo Chavez's battle with private media firms. Disodado Cabello, the public works minister who also oversees Venezuela's broadcasting watchdog, said 154 FM radio stations will be taken off the air and shifted into public hands in what he called "democratizing the airwaves." He recently said 86 AM radio stations will also be hit as the government steps up efforts to turn Venezuela into a socialist society. "The use of the radio-electric spectrum is one of the few areas where the revolution has not been felt," Cabello said in a presentation to legislators about the need for reform in the sector. Since taking office a decade ago, Chavez has broken up large farms and nationalized important economic sectors including the oil industry. Chavez and his supporters describe their drive to broadcast a pro- government message as a "media war" with private news companies. Venezuela's media is highly polarized with biased coverage the norm on both government and private networks. The president has vastly expanded the number of publicly owned television and radio stations since he took office in 1999. Some are directly owned or financed by the government, while others are operated by cooperatives and community groups. In 2007 Chavez did not renew the concession for a widely watched critical private TV station RCTV. Cabello also announced plans to apply Venezuelan broadcasting regulations to cable and satellite television stations that produced more than a third of their content in the oil-exporting nation. The new rules for subscription television seemed to be aimed specifically at RCTV, which now broadcasts only on cable. RCTV was Venezuela's most popular television station, watched by millions because of its soap operas. The station was highly critical of Chavez and played an active role in a failed coup against him in 2002. (Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel and Patricia Rondon; Editing by Bill Trott Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06600224598981072865 http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics) http://zlgr.stumbleupon.com (my social 'bookmarks' ) http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.youtube.com/zach0gr some videos http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload http://www.geocities.com/zliangas http://www.myspace.com/310100806 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854 http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1 ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
