Fwd: rctv

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

An email from my cousin in Caracas. Definitely about security, but not
very fun..

let me know if any of you have even heard of this story in the US media..

-JP

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From: <munged>
Date: May 28, 2007
Subject: rctv


Hello family,

As you may know, RCTV, the first tv station that was founded in Venezuela
and also the first tv station that goes out of air in Venezuelan history, it
was pulled out of air last night after 53 years of airing. The reason was
that their petition for renewal of their license to keep airing, which
expired yesterday, was rejected by the goverment, because they became an
annoyance for its criticism. The excuse of the goverment for not renewing
their license was that them, RCTV, participated in the 2002 coup and general
strike.

But other tv stations, as Venevision and Televen, which also participated
openly in the coup, got their licenses renewed because they made a truce
with the goverment about a year ago. RCTV did not so they paid the price for
all, which is unffair.

RCTV was until yesterday the most widely viewed tv station nation wide.
They've always have more than 50% of the share of all venezuelan tv stations
which sum nearly a dozen.

More than 3000 workers, including the most loved actors, actreesses,
journalists, etc, of the country are part of RCTV.

Many people today is sad, including myself, as everyone in Venezuela grew up
watching this tv station.

Today there are manifestations in the streets of Caracas in support of RCTV
and there is only one channel transmiting it (Globovision) and the rest of
the private channels are not, I guess because they are affraid of getting
the same destiny as RCTV received yesterday, so they are censoring
themselves. But not the artists of those channels.

Right in this moment, artists of those other tv stations are protesting for
what happened to RCTV in the streets. And another bunch of them are now live
in Globovision, a news tv channel that, as RCTV, is a pain to the goverment.
They are saying that if the owners of those other tv stations are censoring
themselves, they are not, and that they are against the goverment decision.

Another thing that happened today is that all the executives of Venevision,
one of the channels that made truce with the goverment, and that was
forgiven by the goverment and therefore its license renewed, resigned today
because they do not accept that this tv station do not support RCTV.

So that is how things are here.

Here you can see the very last minutes of RCTV last night when airing live
from their studios. You can see workers, includding artists, journalists,
and others crying, praying, saying goddbye to their large audience, then the
national anthem sang by them exactly at 11:55pm which ended at 11:59pm, then
a black screen for seconds and then the entry of the goverment tv station
TVes, the confirmation of the promise of the goverment to get RCTV out of
air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F3WNdwRwuM

The video is completely in spanish but you dont need to understand the
language in order to feel how sad was that.

Take a look at it

Please also let me know what is being said up there about this.

<anonymous>
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