Monday, July 11, 2005
Telesur Challenges CNN en Español
Source: Miami Herald Latin American governments are launching a home-grown news and cultural channel to go head to head with CNN en Español. The new channel named Telesur -- Spanish for ''TeleSouth''--began test broadcasting last in May and will sign on officially on July 24. Funded by the governments of Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela, the channel calls itself a home-grown alternative to foreign and commercial media coverage such as CNN.
''The productions we get from abroad are a black-and-white vision of Latin America, usually in black when there is a disaster,'' said Telesur's director, Aram Aharonian. He said the channel will help integrate a region that currently knows other parts of the world better than itself.
But Chris Crommett, senior vice president of CNN en Español, the hemisphere's only 24-hour international Spanish-language news channel, said it was false to assume that his channel reflects an American point of view just because it is headquartered in Atlanta.
''Anyone that watches our air and says we're not reflecting the voice of Latin America -- not just institutional and presidential, but really all sectors of society -- isn't really watching much,'' Crommett said in a telephone interview.
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