HispanTV
 | |
| Type | Pay television |
|---|---|
| Country | Iran |
| Availability | Worldwide |
| Slogan |
Nexo Latino (Latino Connection) |
| Owner | Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting[1] |
Key people | Ali Ejarehdar (General Director) |
Launch date | 21 December 2011 |
Picture format | HDTV |
Sister channels | IRINN, Al-Alam News Network, Press TV, iFilm |
Official website | hispantv.com and hispantv.ir |
| Language | Spanish[1] |
| Website | hispantv.com and hispantv.ir |
|---|---|
Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| UHF (Puerto Rico) |
Channel 33.1 (Fajardo; WRUA) Channel 18.2 (Naranjito; WECN) |
| Satellite | |
| Eutelsat 3.1ºE | 11498 H 11852 |
| NSS-806 Americas | 3803 / 27500 / 3/4 H |
| Intelsat 21 58ºW | 3840 H 27690 |
| Hispasat 1D-1E 30ºW | 12092 H 27500 |
| Galaxy 19 North America | 12028 /21991 / 3/4 H |
| CANTV (Venezuela) | Channel 306 |
| Inter (Venezuela) | Channel 340 |
| Cable | |
| Verizon Fios (United States) | Channel 1509 |
| Time Warner Cable (United States) | Channel 228 |
| Cable & Wireless (Panama) | Channel 518 |
| TCC (Uruguay) | Channel 45 |
| Personal TV (Paraguay) | Channel 340 |
HispanTV is an Iranian Spanish language news channel operated by IRIB, Iran's state-owned public broadcasting corporation. It began broadcasting in December 2011.[2]
HispanTV's programming has been distributed in Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, Cuba and other countries worldwide and is intended to reinforce ties between Iran and Latin American states such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Mexico as well as to counter what the Iranian government sees as unfair coverage in Western media. The channel is similar to Press TV, an English language news channel and Al-Alam an Arabic satellite TV station also owned by the Iranian state, which claim to provide "accurate and unbiased coverage of the world and the Middle East events as they unfold."[3]
HispanTV has foreign journalists from Spain, Argentina, Mexico, USA, Chile, Nicaragua and Venezuela. It also has journalists from Iran who speak Spanish.
Goals
The primary goal of HispanTV is to provide a complete platform of multimedia services to the Spanish speaking peoples of Latin America, Latin-American citizens of Iranian origin, Hispanic and Latino Americans of the United States, Muslim minorities of the Hispanophone world, and Spanish-speaking foreign residents in Iran, offering an opportunity for cultural exchange through television and web broadcasts.[4]
TV programs
- Irán
- Enfoque
- Detrás de la Razón
- El Color del Dinero
- Irán Hoy
- Diálogo Abierto
- La Gran Historia
- Cine a Contra Corriente
- Fort Apache
- ¿Qué opinas?
- Continentes
- Más que Deporte
- Dossier de Oriente Medio
- Más allá de la imagen
- Epílogo
- Al – Ándalus
- Al Natural
- Cara a Cara
- A la Calle
- Punto de Mira
- Guayoyo
- Panorama
- Entre Líneas
- El Encuentro
- Raíces
- Nuevos musulmanes
- Casa Latina, Comida Iraní
- Recorridos Urbanos
- Mi viaje al Islam
International Reporters
Controversy
Sanctions
In July 2013, HispanTV and other Iranian channels were removed from several European and American satellites, allegedly because of the Iran sanctions, even though an EU spokesman said that these sanctions do not apply to media.[5] HispanTV is no longer aired in Spain as Spain is a member of the EU and HispanTV now exclusively broadcasts in Hispanic America. HispanTV "tried to bypass sanctions by providing live feeds of its networks through YouTube".[6]
Antisemitism allegations
The Anti-Defamation League has stated that "HispanTV regularly broadcasts anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist conspiracy theories" and that Iran's "influence in Latin America has been a strong feature of the Iranian government’s foreign policy in the last decade, and HispanTV serves as a platform to spread Tehran’s conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism".[6]
According to the Antisemitism in Venezuela 2013 report by the Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations (CAIV) which focuses on the issue of antisemitism in Venezuela, "distorted news, omissions and false accusations" of Israel originate from Iranian media in Latin America, especially from HispanTV. Such "distorted news" is then repeated by the Russia's RT News and Cuba's Prensa Latina, and Venezuela’s state media, including SIBCI, AVN, TeleSUR, Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), Alba TV, La Radio del Sur, Radio Nacional de Venezuela (RNV), YVKE Mundial, Correo del Orinoco and Ciudad CCS.[7]
The Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations states:[7]
"These media reproduce accurately the numerous notes that, on a daily basis, are published by HispanTV, a media that considers and treats the State of Israel and the Jewish people as enemies ... In other words, what HispanTV publishes on a daily basis, our media repeat without editing or changing anything, transforming Israel and the Jews into hated 'infidels' ... In this manner, HispanTV and its national repeaters use diverse fallacious or distorted arguments in order to delegitimize Israel’s existence, accuse it without evidence of all the evil in the world, especially in the Middle East and even going as far as gloating when involving Latin America and using the well known anti-Semitic prejudices applied to the Jewish State ... It is obvious that HispanTV, the Spanish Iranian TV channel, jointly with similar media such as Press TV in English besides other tools, are part of the ayatollahs’ huge propaganda apparatus".
References
- 1 2 http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/iran-launches-spanish-language-hispan-tv
- ↑ "Hispan TV comenzará a retransmitir el miércoles". hispantv.com. 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
- ↑ "Irán se escuchará en español con el canal Hispan TV". www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve. 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
- ↑ "QUÉ ES HISPANTV". www.hispantv.com. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2013-07-25.
- 1 2 "Iran's Hispan TV Follows Press TV's Footsteps With Live Stream On YouTube". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- 1 2 "Antisemitisim in Venezuela 2013". Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations. Retrieved 13 January 2015.