Comments on: Government by television in Venezuela http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/09/25/government-by-television-in-venezuela/ Politics. Media. Culture. Now you know. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: SaxBoy http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/09/25/government-by-television-in-venezuela/comment-page-1/#comment-6359 SaxBoy Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:58:32 +0000 http://nuncscio.com/2007/09/25/government-by-television-in-venezuela/#comment-6359 I just think it's overly simplistic to say that opposing politicians have no access by pointing to the discontinuation of one (sic) station,(by not extending a license to a <a href="http://www.rethinkvenezuela.com/news/05-30-07la.html" rel="nofollow">highly controversial station</a>), when in fact there are still two major commercial tv stations available to anyone (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venevisi%C3%B3n" rel="nofollow">Venevision</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televen" rel="nofollow">Televen</a>) and a plethora of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Venezuelan_over-the-air_television_networks_and_stations#Regional_networks" rel="nofollow">regional stations</a> , most of which are commercial. I just think it’s overly simplistic to say that opposing politicians have no access by pointing to the discontinuation of one (sic) station,(by not extending a license to a highly controversial station), when in fact there are still two major commercial tv stations available to anyone (Venevision, and Televen) and a plethora of regional stations , most of which are commercial.

]]> By: graeme http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/09/25/government-by-television-in-venezuela/comment-page-1/#comment-6358 graeme Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:02:54 +0000 http://nuncscio.com/2007/09/25/government-by-television-in-venezuela/#comment-6358 Surely you're not confusing quantity with access. In the list of 62 stations you link to, 8 are owned outright by the Venezuelan government. A further 29 are community stations created and funded by the Chavez government. Two are defunct. One, Televen, was forced to fire several anti-Chavez reporters to survive the general strike. RCTV, also on the list, was shut down by the Chavez government. That's 41 stations, if you're keeping track. The remaining stations are sports networks, entertainment networks, or channels that claim to be 'neutral' in their political views. And of course, the allowable content of Venezuelan broadcasting is tightly controlled by the Law on Social Responsibility on Radio and Television. This law is widely condemned as state censorship. Sorry I didn't put that in my original post. Surely you’re not confusing quantity with access. In the list of 62 stations you link to, 8 are owned outright by the Venezuelan government. A further 29 are community stations created and funded by the Chavez government. Two are defunct. One, Televen, was forced to fire several anti-Chavez reporters to survive the general strike. RCTV, also on the list, was shut down by the Chavez government. That’s 41 stations, if you’re keeping track. The remaining stations are sports networks, entertainment networks, or channels that claim to be ‘neutral’ in their political views.

And of course, the allowable content of Venezuelan broadcasting is tightly controlled by the Law on Social Responsibility on Radio and Television. This law is widely condemned as state censorship.

Sorry I didn’t put that in my original post.

]]> By: SaxBoy http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/09/25/government-by-television-in-venezuela/comment-page-1/#comment-6357 SaxBoy Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:41:52 +0000 http://nuncscio.com/2007/09/25/government-by-television-in-venezuela/#comment-6357 I didn't know the opposition didn't have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_stations_in_Venezuela" rel="nofollow">access</a>; where did you get this information? I didn’t know the opposition didn’t have access; where did you get this information?

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