TV Marti

US int’l broadcasting to Cuba

January 17, 2012

Kim Andrew Elliott, an audience research analyst in the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau and former producer/host of VOA’s Communications World (1995-2002), recently offered his thoughts about US international broadcasting to Cuba: Cuba needs some source of independent, outside news. It is impossible to get an adequate estimate of audience size in Cuba, but two percent [...]

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Miscellanea

May 8, 2011

Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia, a Cuban dissident, died after he was beaten by police following a protest last week in the city of Santa Clara. [Reuters] Corruption in Cuba: Army General Raúl Castro is replacing corrupt government officials with trusted ones as the cleanup continues. [The Economist] The Office of Cuba Broadcasting has added several “ghost” [...]

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Who’s who in OCB payments

April 10, 2011

Cuba Money Project has posted a whopping 831-page list of payments made by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting—OCB (which oversees Radio Martí and TV Martí) to journalists, writers and others in recent years (2003-2010). Data was obtained from the Federal Procurement Data System.

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Defense of Cuba broadcasting

January 5, 2011

Last month, the Heritage Foundation issued a report on why U.S. broadcasts to Cuba are vital: …the U.S. should maintain its steadfast commitment to the Cuban people by equipping them with the tools required to establish freedom and democracy. Any effort to eliminate international broadcasting to Cuba should cease and Radio/TV Martí should be retained [...]

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Miscellanea

July 7, 2010

An El Salvadoran national detained in Caracas will be extradited “in the coming hours” to Cuba, where he is wanted for a string of terrorist bombings in the late 1990s. [Wall Street Journal] Some changes are in the works for Radio and TV Martí. [Radio World] Spanish FM: Spain hopes Cuba’s agreement with Roman Catholic [...]

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