Telecom Minister: New Channel Will Be First True Public TV in Venezuela

[BayCityProgressive]

Caracas, March 29, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— Venezuela’s Telecommunications Minister, Jesse Chacón, said today that the TV channel that will replace RCTV, whose broadcast license expires May 27, will be the country’s first true Public TV channel, modeled after European TV.

Chacón explained that the new channel will separate the medium from the messages that are broadcast. That is, while the signal will be broadcast by the state, independent TV producers will create the programming for the new channel.

“The state, in the exercise of its faculties, has decided that the frequency of Radio Caracas Television will go over to form part of a new television model that we have decided to call ‘Public Service Television’,” said Chacón during a press conference today.

“With this we break the editorial line that exists in the TV business, where the owner of the medium is the owner of the message,” explained Chacón. Each producer would have their own editorial line that they are free to follow.
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