Belsat TV

Belsat TV
Белсат ТВ

Country	Poland
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland
Programming
Language(s)	Belarusian
Ownership
Owner	Telewizja Polska

Belsat TV (Belarusian: Белсат, Biełsat, English: Belsat) is a state-run satellite television channel aimed at Belarus. It is intended to provide an alternative to the censorship of Belarusian state-run television. Its slogan is "Belsat - your right to choose". The channel broadcasts in Belarusian and Russian, and is intended to provide entertainment and news of a standard comparable to the major TV channels of East-Central Europe.

Based primarily in Poland, where there is a significant Belarusian minority, Belsat is run under the aegis of Polish state-run television company Telewizja Polska (TVP). It started broadcasting on 10 December 2007. The channel is run by about 70 journalists located in Poland, Belarus, and Lithuania. The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has called Belsat a "stupid, uncongenial project".

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Further reading

• Dempsey, Judy (April 23, 2011). "From Poland, Satellite TV Tries to Pierce the Belarus Media Muzzle". New York Times.
• Fairclough, Gordon (January 29, 2011). "Dissent Hits Belarus Via Warsaw". Wall Street Journal.
• Dempsey, Judy (January 21, 2013). "Cutting Red Tape on the E.U.'s Road to Change". New York Times.
• Applebaum, Anne (December 21, 2010). "In Belarus, a slide toward Eastern aggression". The Washington Post.
• Gera, Vanessa (September 2, 2012). "Poles help people of Belarus, recalling own past". Associated Press.
• Easton, Adam (January 19, 2011). "Poland leads EU push for change in Belarus". BBC News.the BBC
• Kuokkanen, Markus (May 11, 2012). "Joke is on dictator in Belarussian dissident media". Washington Times.

External links

• Official website
• Belsat TV at LyngSat Address
• Belsat.TV on Facebook
• Belsat TV on VK.com
• Belsat TV on odnoklassniki.ru
• Belsat TV on Twitter
• Belsat TV on Livejournal