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Satellite view of Havana in October 2005 Paseo del Prado, Havana in April 2019. Havana lies on the northern coast of Cuba along the Straits of Florida, south of the Florida Keys, where the Gulf of Mexico joins the Atlantic Ocean. The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which ...
Havana, Cuba: Programming; Language(s) Spanish: Picture format: 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i for the SDTV feed) Ownership; Owner: Cuban Institute of Radio and Television: History; Founded: 1951 (as CMQ), November 4, 1989 (as Cubavisión) Launched: March 21, 1951; 73 years ago () Founder: Government of Cuba: Replaced: CMQ-TV: Former names ...
Simon Calder, also known as The Man Who Pays His Way, is co-author, with Emily Hatchwell, of Traveller’s Survival Kit: Cuba. He has also been writing about travel for The Independent since 1994.
Cubavisión International (Spanish: Cubavisión Internacional) is a Cuban free-to-air television channel run by Cuba's national broadcaster, Cuban Institute of Radio and Television. It serves as the worldwide arm of the domestic Cubavisión network.
Cuba was the first Latin American country to begin television testing in December 1946 when station CM-21P conducted an experimental multi-point live broadcast. The first regular commercial broadcasting began in October 1950 by the small radio station Union Radio, soon followed by other stations.
[1] [2] Radio Havana Cuba, along with Radio Rebelde, Cubavision Television, and other Cuban radio and television, broadcasts to North, Central and South America via free-to-air programming from the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite over the Atlantic Ocean and worldwide via Internet streaming.
A tourist from China tries to hold his umbrella as Hurricane Rafael passes by Havana, Cuba, Nov.. 6, 2024. People run on the street as Hurricane Rafael passes by Havana, Cuba, Nov. 6, 2024.
Cuba has eight toll-free expressways named Autopistas, seven of them centralized in the city of Havana and connected to each other by the Havana Ring Road, with the exception of the motorway to Mariel. The carriageway is divided and the lanes in each direction go from two to four. Maximum speed limit is 120 km/h (75 mph).