TeleSUR

Not to be confused with Canal Sur.
TeleSUR
Launched July 24, 2005
Owned by La Nueva Televisora del Sur, a public company sponsored by:
 Argentina 20%
 Bolivia 5%
 Cuba 19%
 Ecuador 10%
 Nicaragua 10%
 Uruguay 10%
 Venezuela 51%
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Slogan "Nuestro Norte es el Sur"
("Our North is the South")
Language English, Spanish, Portuguese (for Brazil) only.
Broadcast area Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Northern Africa
Affiliates Venezolana de Televisión
TV Pública Digital
Cubavision International
Ecuador TV
TV Boliviana
Multinoticias
Uruguay National Television
Headquarters Caracas, Venezuela
Website teleSURtv.net
Availability
Terrestrial
Local UHF Venezuela Channel 43 (Puerto La Cruz)
Channel 46 (Valencia)
Channels 49, 51 (Caracas)
Channel 51 (Barquisimeto)
Local UHF
Ecuador		 Channel 21 (Quevedo, Riobamba, Salinas)
Channel 22 (Ambato, Manta, Portoviejo)
Channel 23 (Cuenca, Loja)
Channel 34 (Guayaquil)
Channel 48 (Quito)
Some programming available through local TV stations in several Latin American countries Check your local TV station schedules[1]
Satellite
Astra 1L Europe 11538 V / 22000 / 5/6
Hispasat 1C 11972 V / 27500 / 3/4
Hot Bird Europe 11304 V / 27500 / 2/3
NSS 806 Americas 4118 V / 2960 / 3/4
Digital+ Spain Channel 156
DirecTV All South America Channel 722
Movistar TV Digital Venezuela Channel 131
Telefónica TV Digital South America Channel 451
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal Belgium Channel 303
Sky Digital Channel 916
Venesat-1 Americas 23000? V / 259? / 260?
Galaxy 19 Americas Channel 60
Cable
AMNET
El Salvador
Honduras		 Channel 72
Kabel Deutschland 2328
Cabovisão Portugal Channel 133 (digital)
Cable Mágico Perú Channel 102 (analog)
Channel 814 (digital)
Estesa Nicaragua Channel 97
Intercable Venezuela Channel 76
NetUno Venezuela Channel 14
Supercable Venezuela Channel 45
NOS Portugal Channel 223
Streaming media
teleSURtv.net Multimedia teleSUR: Live news and high quality recordings database

La Nueva Televisora del Sur (teleSUR, English: The New Television Station of the South) is a pan–Latin American terrestrial and satellite television network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela. TeleSUR was launched with the objective of providing information to promote the integration of Latin America.[2]

Legal status, funding and structure

  Latin American countries sponsoring teleSUR

La Nueva Televisora del Sur, C.A. is a public company which has some Latin American governments as its sponsors. Its sponsors are the governments of Argentina 20%, Bolivia 5%, Cuba 19%, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay 10% and Venezuela 51%. The channel's news agenda is dictated by its Board of Directors with the aid of an advisory council, which is formed by many international and regional leftist intellectuals, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, poet Ernesto Cardenal, writers Eduardo Galeano, Tariq Ali, Saul Landau, editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique and historian Ignacio Ramonet, Argentine film producer Tristán Bauer, free software pioneer Richard Stallman and US actor and activist Danny Glover. The network carries no commercial advertising.

Richard Stallman resigned on 26 February 2011, criticising what he called the channel's pro-Gaddafi stance during the Libyan Civil War.[3]

History

Origins and US reaction

The proposed alternative Latin American television network that would become teleSUR took shape on January 24, 2005 as part of the projects approved in a council of ministers of the Venezuelan government [4]

teleSUR began broadcasting on a limited four-hour schedule on July 24, 2005, on the 222nd birthday of Latin American leader Simón Bolívar. A few hours later that day, Richard Lugar, then chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, began a "game of warnings and threats" against the new channel.[5]

The network began full-time broadcasts on October 31, 2005. Just three days before the network began broadcasting, the United States House of Representatives included an amendment to Resolution 2601 introduced by Connie Mack IV, a Republican from Florida's 14th congressional district, which tentatively authorized "to fund activities which support political parties, the rule of law, civil society, an independent media, and otherwise promote democratic, accountable governance in Venezuela." [6][7] The Venezuelan government replied to the U.S. reaction through its ambassador in Washington, D.C., Bernardo Álvarez saying that "in Venezuela there are 48 channels of free access to anyone with a television set and a small antenna. Only two of them belong to the government. You can also receive more than 120 channels from four continents." [8] The chairman of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America broadcasts in Latin America, Walter Isaacson said that the US could not be "out-communicated" by what he called enemies such as Telesur.[9]

Incorporation process of the sponsor countries

Uruguay

The process of integration of Uruguay to teleSUR was long and controversial. Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez signed on March 3, 2005 several agreements with then-recently elected Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez regarding the energetic and communicational integration of both countries, being one of them the joint creation and financing of teleSUR. After just under a year of signing the agreements, they had not been carried out, although the party of President Vázquez was a majority in the country's legislative branch. Venezuelan journalist Andrés Izarra, president of teleSUR, confirmed in an interview in January 2006 the delay in the approval of the full incorporation of the country to the network: "There is a special situation (in Uruguay), because although the country is a member of Telesur, until their Congress does not approve it, we can't broadcast the channel locally or receive government funding. The situation requires a political decision and we hope that the government of Tabaré Vázquez support the initiative".[10] The president of the Uruguayan Deputies' Education Commission, Jorge Brovetto confirmed in February of that year the country still wasn't part of the network's sponsors and asked that, until the parliament has not decided on a final status, the removal of the country's name as sponsor from its promotions and the website.[11] In June of that year, and as the nation's Minister of Education and Culture, Brovetto expressed worries regarding the network's editorial line on certain issues and governments in the region, and how the diplomacy of his country could be affected by it.[12] Uruguay's Chamber of Senators approved the bill that would ratify the agreements on August 8, 2006 by votes of the legislators belonging to ruling party, but the Chamber of Deputies postponed several times the debate on the draft.[13] Although sources close to the Congress told the press in February 2009 that the issue of incorporation to teleSUR "was not a priority item in their agenda", and that the issue would not be discussed during the remainder of that year,[14] the agreement was finally ratified on June 2, 2009.[15]

Controversies and criticism

Cooperation agreements with Al Jazeera

In 2006 teleSUR announced agreements on exchange of audiovisual content and support coverage with the Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera.[16][17] US Congressman Connie Mack IV, who had criticised the channel in the past, claimed that it heralded a "global television network for terrorists and other enemies of freedom."[17][18] teleSUR's then-station manager, Uruguayan Aram Arahonian said in reaction to Mack's remarks that "we continue to believe in democracy, freedom of expression, and pluralism: all the values that are indispensable in any democracy. We don't have any problem making agreements with any organisation that is beneficial for our channel." [19]

TeleSUR agreements with other news organizations and media outlets like the BBC,[20][21] IRIB,[22] and CCTV[23][24] were not criticized by Mack or any US government official.

Detentions and threats to journalists

Several teleSUR journalists have been threatened because of their journalistic work.[25]

Argentina

TeleSUR correspondent in Argentina, Edgardo Esteban, was awakened the morning on September 11, 2008, by the detonation of a homemade bomb of low intensity in front of his home.[26] The journalist had received several threats because of his work on torture and corruption of Argentine military during the Falklands War. The Latin American Federation of Journalists,[27] the Forum of Argentine Journalism[28] and the Inter American Press Association[29] expressed its rejection to any situations that put at risk the life of the journalist and demanded from the national and provincial authorities to work "so that intimidation against journalists will not happen again". Esteban expressed concern for his life and his family after the attack.

Colombia

Detention of Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda

In late 2006, the then correspondent of teleSUR in Colombia, Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda, was arrested on November 19 on charges of rebellion and terrorism. The journalist was accused of being "Jorge Eliécer", a leader of the FARC guerrilla group held responsible for various terrorist attacks. The prosecution cited the testimonies of jailed guerrillas against the journalist. Múñoz's defense argued that the testimonies which implicated him were inconsistent and denounced procedural irregularities after the moment of his arrest. One of the jailed guerrillas claimed that "Jorge Eliécer" suffered several burns on his body due to an accidental bomb explosion. According to teleSUR, the journalist was subjected to physical analysis which determined that there were no injuries in his body matching those described by the witness, and another guerrilla later stated he had been pressured to declare against Múñoz by members of the Colombian Navy's intelligence branch.[30]

Múñoz was released on January 10, 2007, after which he declared that "when I left the prison, less than an hour after leaving, two agents visited the jail and asked in an aggressive manner to officials of the prison where I was going to [and] what was my itinerary after leaving prison."[31] Muñoz Altamiranda said that he feared for his life after being released due to subsequent threats.[32] Reporters Without Borders had questioned the evidence against Múñoz and called his imprisonment an "outrage" and an "abuse", arguing that the Colombian government could be acting against press freedom if the journalist had been jailed due to his work or because of past teleSUR interviews with Colombian guerrillas. The Inter American Press Association also criticized his detention and asked for the respect of due process.[33][34]

William Parra

Noted Colombian journalist William Parra, a former Reuters correspondent, worked for TeleSUR full-time from 2006 to 2008. He was forced to seek political asylum in Venezuela after being charged with links with the FARC. He denies the accusations, and said in September 2010 that his lawyers had received death threats.

Honduras

2009 coup coverage

A group of teleSUR and Venezuelan state media journalists were in Honduras on 28 June 2009 to cover the events in relation to a non-binding referendum on the possibility of changes to the constitution of Honduras. As soon as they learned that soldiers of the Honduran military ousted President Manuel Zelaya in a coup and exiled him to Costa Rica the staff stayed in the country to cover all events after the coup.

A day after the coup teleSUR journalist Adriana Sívori and the crew that was accompanying her was arrested by the military with several other international journalists under threat, and retained their passports.[35] As soon as the world learned of the detention, the journalists and their staff were quickly released. Sívori was reportedly assaulted by the soldiers who detained her. teleSUR was, until the detention and quick release of journalist Sívori the only international channel that was broadcasting live the unrest in the streets of Tegucigalpa.[36] The coverage of the coup by the channel, according to supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and several social and sindical organizations, was essential to make the world and, to some extent, the Honduran people know "without censorships" the situation in the country and President Zelaya's whereabouts.[37]

On June 30, several social organizations and journalistic unions in Venezuela took part in a march to the channel's studios in solidarity with the journalists.[38]

On July 12, the teleSUR crew, which were working together with the Venezuelan state media's were arrested at dawn by police in the hotel where they were staying. After a rigorous review of their documents and after being warned that if they continued their work in the country their personal safety was at risk the crews were released but banned from leaving the hotel.[39][40] The teams decided to leave the country after concluding that it was not possible to continue their work. teleSUR sent a press statement expressing that the channel would make "further efforts to ensure accurate, timely and uncensored accurate information for the world and for the Honduran people, in such a complex historical circumstances." The Latin American Federation of Journalists, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter American Press Association condemned what they considered an attempt to stifle the free flow of information on the situation in the country.[41][42]

TeleSUR criticized the communiqué published by the Inter American Press Association, claiming that "it underestimates with great severity the risks to the life of the teams of reporters and technicians in Honduras by the threats of the repressive forces of a government unrecognized by several international organizations and countries in the world", the "implicit legitimacy" given to the de facto government and the criticizing of the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua, sponsors of the channel, for allegedly "restricting press freedom".[43]

On September 25, teleSUR journalists claimed they had been attacked with high-frequency radiation and mind-altering gas along with other international journalists accompanying Manuel Zelaya during his entrenchment in the Brazilian embassy after returning to the country on Sept. 21.[44][45]

TeleSUR reported on October 9 that their media staff who were covering the stay of President Manuel Zelaya in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa since his arrival on September 21, were forced to leave by "the progressive deterioration of their health due to a systematic plan of repression carried out by the de facto authorities".[46]

Ecuador

TeleSUR correspondent in Ecuador, Elena Rodríguez, was beaten and robbed in Quito on September 19, 2009, by a group of three people who left a pamphlet in which she received death threats because of her journalistic work for the channel.[47] The journalist had received death threats before.[48]

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Venezuela

While promoting an ad campaign for the Government of Venezuela, TeleSUR used a photo on Twitter of Miami Herald reporter Jim Wyss arriving at the Miami International Airport after being arrested by Venezuelan authorities and interrogated by SEBIN, with the TeleSUR Twitter campaign stating, "We love Venezuela for receiving foreigners like one of our own."[49][50][51][52] The incident became popular in the international media since they found the use of the photo ironic due to the circumstances surrounding it.[49][50][51][52] TeleSUR then removed the photo.[50]

Distribution

teleSUR is available free-to-air via satellite to Latin America, the United States, Western Europe and Northern Africa. The network's availability through cable television has been very limited in Latin America because of the network's editorial approach to several events and governments in the region; the station manager in 2007, Aram Arahonian said in an interview that "cable owners do not provide us with any access [...] it's not frequent, but it has affected us in the large countries. For example, in México there exists a duopoly, Televisa and Televisión Azteca. In Argentina, almost everything is dominated by the Clarin group. In Brazil the case is different, the country is the leader in the pay TV market in Latin America with 14 million subscribers (45 million viewers) and almost one million new homes subscribed in the first quarter of 2012, according to the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), but the distributors are not committed to bringing a channel in Spanish with political interests.

The availability of the channel via terrestrial television is very limited in the vast majority of Latin American countries. The only countries in the region that receives all teleSUR's broadcasts via terrestrial television are Venezuela and Ecuador, whose governments are sponsors of the channel. teleSUR is currently available via Digital Terrestrial Television in Argentina, as part of the Government-sponsored channel line-up which includes several other public service, educational, music, sports and news channels. Venezuela started broadcasting teleSUR via terrestrial television on February 9, 2007[53] and Ecuador on July 15, 2009.[54] The rest of the sponsor countries broadcast some of the networks' programs, mainly the news, in their public and educational channels (see list of sister channels).[55] The network started in February 2008 to broadcast some news programming to Brazil in Portuguese through several community stations in the state of Paraná.[56] On September 27, 2009, teleSUR president Andrés Izarra announced an agreement with public TV stations in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau to broadcast some of the channel programming in Portuguese in the context of the Second Africa-South America Summit, held in Venezuela.[57]

teleSUR's broadcasts in Cuba

Although teleSUR has Cuba as one of its main funders and suppliers of programming, the channel is not completely available in the country. It was not until late 2007 that its programming is broadcast daily on the island, but only from 22:30 until 8:00 the following day via Canal Educativo 2, a educational television channel. [58] From 20 January 2013, live simulcasting of teleSUR has been extended and now occurs daily from 20:00 until 16:30.[59][60] Until January 2013 some of teleSUR's programming was broadcast in Cuba during the day on that channel but as a one-hour, highly edited mix of its news and documentary programmes titled 'Lo mejor de teleSUR' (The Best of teleSUR).[61] and, depending on the topic in the program, Mesa Redonda Internacional, a news and opinion program that's produced for teleSUR by the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television. According to the Swedish analyst Nathan Shachar, in this way, the Cuban government censors any information that is not to the liking of its "political system",[62] which includes "free elections, multiparty, strikes and protest movements that are non-existent on the island".[63][64]

Additional language versions

As part of the U.S. media coverage of the protests in Venezuela in 2014, and after his interview with Christiane Amanpour for CNN, President Nicolas Maduro announced on March 8 that on July 24, coinciding with Simón Bolívar Day, teleSUR would launch in English, French and Portuguese.[65]

teleSUR English

In July 2014, an english teleSUR website was launched. A 24-hour broadcast channel will start in July 2015.[66]

Programming

The current (July 2012) news ident

teleSUR's programming is organised by a 'Strategic Programming Committee.'[4]

Current programming

  • teleSUR Noticias (News from the South): Current affairs Latin American news program from the network's headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela with 11 permanent correspondents and 12 collaborators in several countries throughout the region.
  • El Mundo Hoy (The World today): Extended morning edition of teleSUR Noticias.
  • Conexión Global (Global Connection): Extended midday edition of teleSUR Noticias.
  • Edición Central (Central Edition): Extended evening edition of teleSUR Noticias.
  • Deportes teleSUR (teleSUR Sports): Sports News Show.
  • Reportajes teleSUR (teleSUR reports): Weekly analytical program about Latin America's most important current events.
  • Agenda Abierta: A news and interviews program hosted by Argentinian journalist Lourdes Zuazo about Latin America's current events, now as a segment of El Mundo Hoy.
  • Dossier: An international news program hosted by Venezuelan journalist Walter Martínez on weekdays at night. This program is also broadcast on Venezuelan State TV.
  • Impacto Económico (Economical Impact): Business and economical news, hosted by journalist Mario López.
  • Mesa Redonda Internacional: Political and social analysis program, broadcast on Tuesday and Thursday nights, live from Havana, Cuba.
  • Síntesis: Summary of top stories of the week, broadcast on Saturdays mornings.
  • Maestra Vida: Biographies of Latin American personalities.

Cancelled programmes

The networks' website has a daily schedule of its programming.

References

  1. ↑ Nicholas Kozloff (18 March 2007). "Interview with Aram Arahonian, teleSUR Director: "We’re not Anti-U.S."". Venezuelanalysis.com. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  2. ↑ )
  3. ↑ 2010: November - February Political Notes - Richard Stallman
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  6. ↑ "Congressman works to counter socialist air time". Connie Mack's HOR website. 21 July 2005. Retrieved 21 January 2009.
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