Arise in Cuba alternative private television channels – Martí News

Two private television channels have been established in Cuba, with cultural content and advertising that are being paid by private entrepreneurs and distributed in Package Weekly.

It is an unprecedented communication alternative in a country whose government has controlled the media for over half a century.

the Weekly Package, which is serving as a channel of distribution of new private- means, by the high demand of the population was previously imposed in .. through constant complaints by bad bill local channels

the media in Cuba are all under the tight control of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee

Presentation private TV Channel 8 Ball

But channels My Havana TV and 8 Ball TV, in those who work known presenters Cuban television, are being seen as a haven for entrepreneurs private until now promote their business individually in social networks or through paid in the phone book that ETECSA published every year ads.

at the same time, they are benefiting communications professionals often must survive with low state salaries.

“Welcome to My Havana TV, a program made 100 percent here in Cuba and gives you the option of seeing through the Package Weekly” says in his presentation Carlos Vila.

Vila explains even entrepreneurs how to get on TV.

“If you have a business, small, medium or large, this is the place where you can promote it, this is advertising 100 percent. We’re going after the celebrity gossip, musical shows, we’ll be in all private businesses in the country, “announces a commercial on YouTube

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Respite for professionals underpaid

the journalist Adriel Reyes, in a radio interview for Radio Martí, included the opinion of independent journalists on the island on the new form which can also be accessed via YouTube.

“There are traders, designers, owners of hair salons, clothing vendors that are able to give better wages to these professionals to whom the state pays very poorly as we know,” he told Radio Martí the independent journalist Julio Aleaga.

“they are alternatives that are taking place within Cuban society and talks of audacity, wit, talent is inside Cuban society and that the communist party can no longer stop more,” he added .

Ignacio González, director of the independent news agency Prensa Libre in Caliente, also was enthusiastic about the new channels.

“I was liked, incredibly liked me. I’m consuming showbiz my own country, the gossip that I do not see any place’m seeing out there (…) Imagine if to me that I have 40 years I liked, how not to like a young man of 16.18 years ” he said.

Aleaga valued even these channels are part of the thrust is having Cuban civil society and struggle for greater communication spaces.

“If someone wants to talk about changes in Cuba, this is one of the millimetric civil society changes that are occurring within the country, “said Aleaga. “It is part of these spaces that Cuban society is stealing and is advancing on state mechanisms,” he said.