February 6, 2007 7:38 p.m. EST
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer
Miami, FL (AHN) - TV Marti, the U.S.-funded station aimed at ending the
communist regime in Cuba, may soon be showing up on televisions in Havana.
TV Marti has signed a $195,000 deal with WPMF-TV in Miami, which will
broadcast programming for six months on equipment powerful enough to
allow Cubans with satellite dishes, which have been outlawed, to pick up
the station.
Cuba's communist party newspaper, Granma, has spoken out against the
move, saying, "They are trying new ways to get their meddlesome and
subversive messages, designed to destabilize the Cuban revolution, seen
and heard in our country."
"The authorities of our country, with the support of the vast majority
of the people, are taking and will take the necessary measures" to make
sure the programming doesn't reach Cuban televisions.
TV Marti hit the air on March 27, 1990, and operates as an element of
the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), along with its sister
station, Radio Marti. The stations are remnants of the Cold War-era
anti-communist radio networks like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL) which were broadcast into the Soviet Union in an attempt to
help bring down the Iron Curtain.
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