AWESOME:Venezuelan TV Station Takes Programming to Cable, Satellite After Being Forced Off Air

CARACAS, Venezuela-An opposition-aligned TV station forced off the air by President Hugo Chavez said it will take its programming to cable and satellite television.Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, is still waging a legal battle to reclaim its broadcast license that Chavez refused to renew, forcing it off the air on May 27.But until it can return to the open airwaves, starting Monday RCTV will reach viewers via cable, station chief executive Marcel Granier said Wednesday."Venezuelans want RCTV, and they will have it," Granier told a news conference. "Until we achieve the goal of regaining our signal we must try to return to the air as soon as possible through alternative means."Cable and satellite television cost roughly US$20 (euro14.50) a month-more than many Venezuelan families can afford-and reach approximately 30 percent of households.Granier and other outspoken Chavez critics have cast doubt on the possibility of a favorable appeal process, noting that Supreme Court magistrates were appointed by Chavez's allies in the National Assembly and are widely perceived as government-friendly.Granier said the priority for RCTV is still to return to viewers as a regular network on the open airwaves."We will not cease our efforts until we regain our signal and our equipment," he said. "This commitment is for all Venezuelans throughout the country to have RCTV again, for free."RCTV has appealed a series of rulings handed down by Venezuela's Supreme Court that permitted Chavez's administration to force the opposition-sided channel off the airwaves and allowed the new channel to use RCTV's broadcasting equipment.International press freedom groups, the European Union, the U.S. government, Human Rights Watch and others have expressed concern that the move against RCTV is a threat to press freedom.
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