Friday, May 25, 2007

rctv.net Venezuela's government didn't renew RCTV's license, so it's going off the air this weekend.

(UPDATE JUNE 2: RCTV has moved its news broadcast to YouTube.)

This Sunday, May 27th will mark the final transmission of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), a Venezuelan TV network founded in 1953. It's broadcasting license wasn't renewed by the government of Hugo Ch�vez.

Access to RCTV's site is spotty right now. You can still see it in Google's cache.

The station's replacement will be TVES (Social Venezuelan TV) which will use the same frequency, Channel 2. According the government, the change was made after RCTV's "constant violations of the law."

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While some Latin American media sites have published news about this change, led by El Universal, whose special English edition includes all the opposition voices against the government decision. Also, local bloggers have taken a high interest in the case -- just search Blogalaxia (Latin America's equivalent of Technorati) for Venezuelan blogs using the "rctv" tag (in Spanish).

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