Usa Forum - Cuban TV Transmissions Reach China

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8/28/2006 2:53:00 PM

August 27, 2006
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Beijing (PL).- The Satellite Channel Cubavisón Internacional began to
be reached on the Chinese continental territory thanks to an
agreement signed by both countries.

The television signal was inaugurated during a ceremony which took
place on the Cuban diplomatic mission in Beijing, in which the
transcendental meaning of this step was made evident for the
friendship relations between both countries and people.

The event was assisted by the Cuban Government Minister, Ricardo
Cabrisas, the president of the Cuban Institute for Radio and
Television, Ernesto López and the director of cooperation of the
State, Radio, Cinema and TV Administration (AERCTV in Spanish), Ma
Xuming, among others.

In this way, China becomes the first Asian country where the programs
of Cubavisión Internacional can be distributed throughout the whole
territory, highlighted the director of the channel, Grisell Pérez.

Cubavisión has already around 20 million subscribers throughout the
entire world, which means that there are about 100 million potential
television viewers on the American continent, Europe and now Asia.

Grisell Pérez expressed that as part of the agreement, three Chinese
satellite channels - in English, Spanish and French - can be seen
for
some time in 38 thousand hotel rooms from 24 tourist points in Cuba.

She announced, also, that this service is undergoing a process of
growth.

Such exchanges, said the Cuban employee, allow us to know every time
more what is going on in our countries, to know each other better as
friends and to be more united in the face of the big transnational,
very specially, from the United States. Ma Xuming said on behalf of
the AERCTV that it will strengthen the already solid friendship
between both government and people.

During the ceremony, it was informed that the Cuban television signal
began to be seen in areas from the Chinese capital city thanks to the
work of the Service Buro to the diplomatic corps.

At the same time, the Cuban television began to transmit for this
occasion a special satellite program for the Chinese television
viewers and with a warm welcome from the Havana night.

At first, Cubavisión will be available on the rooms of more than two
thousand five hundred hotels from three, four and five stars in every
Chinese province.

Translation: Karen López (Cubarte)

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