Catia TVe (Televisora Comunitaria del Oeste) is a

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n television channel, created and administered by the residents of

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, a major neighborhood in the capital city of

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. Seventy percent of its programming is created by community organizations in the

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s (poor, heavily populated neighborhoods in Venezuela). It can be seen in the city of

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channel 41.

History

The

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administration devoted considerable financial resources to support community

television in Venezuela Television in Venezuela began in 1952, when the then President of Venezuela, Marcos Pérez Jiménez launched the state channel Televisora Nacional, making Venezuela the ninth country in the world to have a public television network. By 1963, a ...

as part of its view of participatory democracy. Community television programs received funds through the National Ministry of Communication and

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corporate social responsibility funds. These programs notably included Catia TVe, which provides a forum for marginalized communities in Venezuela to document and broadcast their struggles. Catia TVe began transmission on March 30, 2001. The channel's broadcasts were suspended on April 11, 2002, during the

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by political opponents and Venezuelan businessmen who had ousted the president of Venezuela,

for two days. Catia TVe's signal wasn't restored until July 10, 2003. Shortly thereafter the then mayor de Caracas,

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, ordered them to move their headquarters into a hospital in the city. It wasn't until July 11, 2004 that Catia TVe once again began broadcasting, currently reaching most of the city from their very own headquarters. On March 30, 2006, Catia TVe went from transmitting 14 hours a day to 18 hours a day because they have started showing programs from

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and important sessions of the National Assembly from

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History

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