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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.
Commercial television arrived in Cuba on October 25, 1950, the first in the Caribbean and second in Latin America. [8] In the 1940s, Cuba's two largest radio stations, CMQ (which had begun testing in 1946) and RHC-Cadena Azul, announced they would soon start broadcasting television. Since building TV stations and broadcast networks from scratch ...
HRTG-TV 5: Canal5 - El Lider; HRJG-TV 6: Canal 6; Canal 8 Honduras; HRTS-TV 7: HRJS-TV 9: Vica Television; HRNQ-TV 13: Cruceña de TV; Canal 11; Canal 48 - El Canal de la Solidaridad; JBN; Maya TV; Pueblovision Canal 36; SOTEL Canal 11; TEN
Television in Latin America currently includes more than 1,500 television stations and more than 60 million TV sets throughout the 20 countries that constitute Latin America. Due to economic and political problems television networks in some countries of this region have developed less than the North American and European networks, for instance.
In 1959, with the conclusion of the Cuban Revolution, CMQ-TV, like the other means of communication in the country, ended up under the control of the government. Subsequently, on February 27, 1961, with the disappearance of commercial advertising in Cuban media, the Cuban Government assumed the financing of the television channels.
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The first years of television in Cuba were marked by a climate of competitiveness between two Cuban businessmen backed by US companies, Gaspar Pumarejo and Goar Mestre. Mestre started construction of Radio Center , inspired by the Radio City in New York, while Pumarejo tried to develop a television studio in his own home. [ 5 ]
Tele Rebelde was officially launched on July 22, 1968, in the city of Santiago de Cuba. It broadcast its signal to the then Oriente province and aimed to reflect the region in which it was based. It broadcast a wide variety of programs for six hours a day from Monday through Saturday and on Sunday afternoons.