Belsat TV

Belsat TV
Белсат ТВ
Launched 10 December 2007 (2007-12-10)
Owned by Telewizja Polska
Picture format 4:3/16:9 576i (SDTV)
Slogan Belsat - your right to choose (Белсат – тваё права выбару)
Country Poland
Language Belarusian
Broadcast area Belarus, Europe
Headquarters Warsaw, Poland
Website www.belsat.eu
Availability
Satellite
Astra 4A 12303 H / 25546 / 7/8 (SD / FTA)
Cable
Vectra Channel 817
Streaming media
belsat.eu Watch live

Belsat TV (Belarusian: Белсат, Biełsat, English: Belsat) is a 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.

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

Criticism

The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has called Belsat a "stupid, uncongenial and unriendly project".[1]

In September 2018, the former political activist Ivan Shyla was fired from Belsat after having posted a photo of Poland's president Andrzej Duda and US president Donald Trump on his Facebook page. The photo was accompanied by a critical comment which the top managers of Belsat, including personally its director Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy, who commented on the Facebook post, characterized as Shyla's disloyalty to Belsat[2] On the next day Ivan Shyla was removed from Belsat's editorial chats and received a message about his dismissal. The situation became a scandal and was covered by notable Belarusian and international media.[3][2][4].

Further reading

  • Dempsey, Judy (April 23, 2011). "From Poland, Satellite TV Tries to Pierce the Belarus Media Muzzle". The New York Times.
  • Fairclough, Gordon (January 29, 2011). "Dissent Hits Belarus Via Warsaw". The Wall Street Journal.
  • Dempsey, Judy (January 21, 2013). "Cutting Red Tape on the E.U.'s Road to Change". The 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. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013.
  • 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.
  • Mackinnon, Amy (Mar 6, 2017). "Why Europe’s Last Dictator May Suddenly Need Uncensored TV". Coda Story

References

  1. ↑ (in Belarusian) "Лукашенко: Независимый телеканал - "глупый, бестолковый и недружественный" проект". TUT.BY. 26 March 2007.
  2. 1 2 Polish leader resists view that he was disrespected by Trump - Washington Post, 23 September 2018 г.
  3. ↑ Івана Шылу звольнілі з Белсата за жарт з прэзідэнта Польшчы ў фэйсбуку [Ivan Shyla fired from Belsat for a Facebook joke about the Polish president] - Nasha Niva, 20 September 2018
  4. ↑ Pracownik Biełsatu zwolniony po tym, jak pokazał zdjęcie Dudy przy biurku Trumpa [Belsat employee fired after posting photo of Duda at Trump's desk] - Gazeta Wyborcza, 21 September 2018 г.


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