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Link TV
CountryUnited States
HeadquartersBurbank, California
(with production offices in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, California)
Ownership
OwnerKCETLink

Link TV is a non-commercial liberal progressive American satellite television network providing "diverse perspectives on world and national issues." It is carried nationally on DirecTV (ch. 375) and Dish Network (ch. 9410). It is broadcast over the air in the Los Angeles area on the 28.2 subchannel of KCET. Link TV was launched as a daily, 24-hour non-commercial network in 1999. It receives no money from the satellite providers, but relies instead on contributions from viewers and foundations.

Link TV broadcasts a mix of documentaries, global and national news, music of diverse cultures, and programs promoting citizen action. The network also airs English language news from Deutsche Welle, NHK and France 24, as well as various documentaries and world music videos.[1] Select Link TV programs are streamed on the Internet, via the channel's website at www.linktv.org.[2]

The network also produced Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, a program of translated news reports from the Middle East.

Link TV previously carried programming from Al Jazeera English, but the programming was discontinued as part of Al Jazeera's entry into the U.S. market with Al Jazeera America. Al Jazeera English's news programming was replaced by that of France 24.[3]

Production and projects

In 2010, Link TV announced the launch of ViewChange.org, an online video platform funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that aims to raise awareness of global development issues. It applies Semantic Web technology to video, in order to automatically create links to related content from other online sources.[4]

In conjunction with the New York City Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, LinkTV broadcast a "Youth Producing Change" program which showcases the works of youth from all over the world.[5] They also support efforts to fund groups such as imMEDIAte Justice Productions which help youth create their own film works.

Production facilities for Link TV are in San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Burbank, California.

In October 2012, Link TV announced that it was merging with KCET, an independent public television station in Los Angeles, to form a new nonprofit entity, to be called KCETLink. The new entity is headquartered at KCET's Burbank facilities.[6]

Programs

Original

  • Mosaic: World News from the Middle East
  • Mosaic Intelligence Report
  • Global Pulse
  • Latin Pulse
  • CINEMONDO
  • Global Spirit
  • Explore
  • Earth Focus
  • Who Speaks for Islam
  • Bridge to Iran
  • Real Conversations
  • Global Lens
  • Oceans 8
  • DOC-DEBUT
  • 4REAL
  • Men of Words
  • Lunch with Bokara
  • Bokara's Conversations on Consciousness
  • U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project
  • Ethics and the World Crisis
  • ColorLines
  • Future Express
  • Connections
  • The Israel Lobby
  • Youth Producing Change
  • LinkAsia

Licensed

Affiliates

  • KCET, also affiliated through KCETLink, their parent company[6]
  • KRCB 1 a.m. to 5 a.m.[7]

References

  1. ^ Wilner, Paul. "Broadcasting a Global Sampler, The New York Times, January 13, 2008.
  2. ^ Link TV FAQ
  3. ^ http://www.linktv.org/about/blog/post/1395/faq-al-jazeera-english-and-the-future-of-world-news-on-link-tv
  4. ^ Ingram, Mathew. "LinkTV Building a YouTube for Social Change", GigaOM, February 26, 2010.
  5. ^ Youth Producing Change - LinkTV.com
  6. ^ Garofoli, Joe (April 18, 2007). "A new accent on the news". SF Gate. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 19, 2014.

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