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Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy is Destroying the Church When over four thousand people gathered for the Lead Like Jesus Conference in Louisville, Kentucky last year and thousands more watched by satellite in churches across the country, there was nothing but approval and applause from Christian leaders and the media. These events are being held several times a year and are attended by nationally known Christian speakers like Max Lucado, Rick Warren and Henry Blackaby. In fact, Rick Warren is on the board of Ken Blanchard's Lead Like Jesus organization. The stated purpose of the conferences is to help people...

The Colombian National Television Commission (CNTV) blocked satellite access to Telecapital, a government channel that rebroadcasts Telesur signal. The hemispheric news system boosted by Venezuela started operations last July 24th, with programming including documentary films, news coverage and a number of journalist works that highlight the Latin American people, as explained in the Monday edition of Semana magazine.

American actor Danny Glover on Tuesday defended a new TV station financed by Venezuela's government as a way to bring Latin America together, denying claims by critics that it will be used to demonize the United States. The channel Telesur, which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has promoted as an alternative to foreign media giants, began regular broadcasts Sunday and is transmitting news, documentaries and other programs to various Latin countries. "Certainly the television station itself is not a tool that would be used to demonize the north," said Glover, a member of the station's advisory board. "It is a tool...

MORE than any other industry, America's multi-billion-dollar entertainment business is caught in the crossfire of the country's culture war. Media firms have always had to walk a fine line between giving adults realistic shows and shielding children from sex and bad language. But thanks to the current political clout of social conservatives, TV and radio firms are under more attack than ever for allegedly corrupting America's youth. Congress is threatening to increase sharply fines for airing indecent material, and some politicians want to regulate cable and satellite TV for indecency for the first time. Over 80% of American homes subscribe...

With a star-studded team of certified, dyed-in-the-wool progressive nutbars of every flavor, including Medea Benjamin, Tony Benn, Helen Caldicott, Linda Foley (yes!), Janeane Garofalo, Naomi Klein, Gore Vidal, and Howard Zinn, Independent World Television is poised to capture the enormous, heretofore-untapped global market for demented leftist raving. (Hat tip: Chrenkoff.) The network is raising a $7 million start-up budget from individual donors and foundations. The MacArthur, Ford and Phoebe Haas Trust foundations and the Canadian Auto Workers Union have contributed to a planning study. In its next phase, IWTnews will build the online community necessary for an international mass fundraising...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A new TV station backed by Venezuela's government began transmitting Sunday in various countries across Latin America, carrying praise by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the American actor Danny Glover and others. The Telesur network, which organizers call a Latin alternative to large media outlets like CNN, was being seen in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil and Cuba as well as Venezuela, Chavez said. "This is part of an awakening of our peoples," Chavez said by phone to a televised inaugural ceremony in Caracas. Chavez, a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, called the channel a key...

London, Jul. 13 – The Iranian government has jammed the signals of a major Persian-language satellite television, a spokesman for the channel, Simaye Azadi, said. “In Blatant violation of ITU [International Telecommunication Union] regulations, the Iranian regime is sending out illegal jamming signals to censor our broadcasts from Iranians inside and outside Iran”, spokesman Behruz Pirhosseini said. “This new wave of satellite disturbance started on July 9, which was the day of the sixth anniversary of the student uprising in Iran”, Pirhosseini added. He was referring to the student-led anti-government protests in 1999 which were violently suppressed by the clerical...

DOHA, Qatar -- Al-Jazeera is nothing if not bold. It has fought repeatedly with Washington, which says its exclusive broadcasts of Osama bin Laden speeches show an anti-American, pro-terrorist bias. Its freewheeling broadcasts have decimated state-run TV stations across much of the Arab world, leading some countries to close its bureaus down. So what does such a network do next? Plan a massive expansion. By March, the network will launch Al-Jazeera International, a satellite channel that will beam English-language news to the United States - and much of the rest of the world - from its base in tiny Qatar....

LOS ANGELES - Nearly half the country's Hispanics, Asian Americans and other minorities prefer ethnic newspapers, television and radio to mainstream media, according to a poll released Tuesday. Outlets from Korean-language dailies to Spanish-broadcasting powerhouse Univision Communications Inc. attract 45 percent of adults in major minority groups, or about 29 million people nationwide, at least several times a week over their mainstream counterparts, a poll commissioned by the nonprofit New California Media shows. Overall, ethnic media reach approximately 80 percent the groups studied — about 51 million people, or a quarter of the U.S. adult population. "This is something that...

SWITCH on your satellite television receiver in Tehran nowadays and something is amiss - "No Signal", the otherwise fuzzy television screen says for much of the day and night. With presidential elections just over a week away, Islamic Iran's technological guardians appear to be waging a war against enemies in the airwaves - opposition-run television channels. However, the problem is that they may also be frying people's brains. "Microwaves," explained an Iranian satellite television technician, who earns his keep by installing dishes even though they are technically banned. "They're jamming, and these signals used to block the satellites have never...

What’s happening in Central and South America? Argentina’s President Hugo Chavez has launched (Telesur) a state run international news organization along the lines of Al-Jazeera. Argentina, Uruguay, and Cuba are all investors in the project. What are the implications of this? Can we expect huge doses of anti-American propaganda from this news outlet in South America? Will the US media immediately embrace Telesur as a peer and member of the international media even if it is state run? Will feeds aired on Telesur be broadcast on American TV without scrutiny like al-Jazeera? I have my suspicions, but I guess we...

The violence -- and casualties -- in Iraq continue to mount and many in the Arab world continue to view America as an imperialist power. But the US-based television station Al-Hurra is trying to change that. After all, there is some good news in Iraq, isn't there? The scenes of destruction have become a daily staple in Iraq: car bombs exploding in Baghdad, mutilated victims, the horrified faces of the survivors. And new footage from the Iraqi capital, it seems, is constantly flickering across television screens. Recently, it was graphic pictures showing newly discovered bodies of Iraqi security personnel. They...

Via Paxety Pages, The Miami Herald reports on Hugo's version of Al-Jazeera for Latin America, His government is bankrolling a new television network, Telesur, that has plans to broadcast news, sports and educational programs across Latin America beginning this summer. Its organizers say it will not be a Venezuelan government mouthpiece, but Chávez is providing 70 percent of its funding, fueling concerns that the organizers of the network may not have a choice in the matter. Not that it comes as a surprise, considering how Fidel hosted Hugo and Sheik Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, vice-president of Qatar, in charge of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - (KRT) - Oprah has a fan base in Iraq. Iraqi mothers fret about the amount of time their teenagers spend watching "Star Academy," an Arabic-language cross between "American Idol" and "The Real World." And an ad for the satellite channel MBC's new lineup - which includes "Inside Edition," "Jeopardy!" and "60 Minutes" - declares: "So you can watch what THEY watch." Satellite dishes, which Saddam Hussein and his coterie withheld from ordinary Iraqis, have sprouted everywhere since his regime fell. They sit on the roofs of mansions and sidewalk vendors' stalls, pulling in hundreds of channels from...

Radical Afghan clerics Tuesday unveiled plans to launch the country's first Islamic television channel since the fall of the fundamentalist Taliban regime more than three years ago. A group of hard-line religious scholars, or mullahs, based in the capital Kabul said the station would counter what they say are immoral and un-Islamic programs being broadcast by other channels. "We plan to launch our own TV channel and through this channel we will broadcast Islamic programs," said Qyamuddin Kashaf, a spokesman for the Ulema Council, the group behind the plans. Afghanistan has witnessed a rapid growth in television stations since the...

The anchors and reporters wear uniforms instead of neckties and suits, and the commercials promote the military, not laundry soap and cutlery sets. But otherwise, the Pentagon Channel - which is on the cusp of its first anniversary - looks and sounds a lot like CNN and C-SPAN. To the people who run the Department of Defense television network, that's exactly the point. To critics, that's exactly the problem. When the government creates a cable channel that reminds viewers of a news network, down to the live Pentagon briefings and interviews with Washington big shots, is it a form of...

Cablevision Systems Corp., a New York area cable TV provider, said it would proceed with a shutdown of its money-losing satellite TV venture called Voom. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission released early Friday, Cablevision said the service would no longer be available to customers as of April 30. The move represented a defeat for Cablevision's chairman and founder Charles Dolan, who had championed the service. His son James, Cablevision's CEO, had sided with board members who opposed it, leading to a bitter family feud. Investors, who had long been skeptical about Voom's prospects, applauded the...

Eutelsat Cancels NTDTV’s Contract: Freedom of the Press in a Shrinking Globe? News Analysis By Stephen Gregory The Epoch Times Apr 04, 2005 New Tang Dynasty TV has used Eutelsat’s W5 satellite for the past year to beam its programming into the People’s Republic of China, where it could be seen by anyone with access to a satellite dish. Now, the independent network may lose its channel into China. On March 22 in Paris a French court declined to issue an emergency injunction ordering the satellite provider Eutelsat to continue carrying the signal of New Tang Dynasty T.V. (NTDTV) on...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, March 29 - Shortly before Kyrgyzstan's recent parliamentary elections, an opposition newspaper ran photographs of a palatial home under construction for the country's deeply unpopular president, Askar Akayev, helping set off widespread outrage and a popular revolt in this poor Central Asian country. The newspaper was the recipient of United States government grants and was printed on an American government-financed printing press operated by Freedom House, an American organization that describes itself as "a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world." In addition to the United States, several European countries - Britain, the Netherlands and Norway...

(CBS) Amidst the political turmoil that is Iraq stands a country in transition, reports CBS News Correspondent Byron Pitts. Influenced by the presence of American troops, new additions to satellite TV, and the now easy access to the Internet once forbidden under Saddam Hussein, the youth of Iraq is waging a cultural revolution. "They are wearing baggy jeans and, you know, hip t-shirts and or NBA jerseys and that kind of stuff," said one young Iraqi, Omar. "Is that right?" asked Pitts. "So Lebron James is becoming a big name in Iraq or Michael Jordan and those guys? "Shaquille O'Neal,...

Al-Jazeera to Be Launched in English in AmericaBarbara Ferguson, Arab News March 22, 2005 WASHINGTON, 22 March 2005 — Al-Jazeera news channel, the bete noire of both the Bush administration and many Arab governments, is shown on a daily basis to 35 to 50 million Arab households throughout the world. Soon Americans will be viewing it in their homes — in English. Since it began broadcasting in 1996, Al-Jazeera has made a name for itself by annoying both the US government and Arab regimes for its controversial coverage. Love it or hate it, it has revolutionized reporting in the Middle...

BRUSSELS - Hezbollah's al-Manar television channel, branded a terrorist organization by the United States, will no longer be available on European satellites from Monday, media regulators said yesterday. The announcement came at a meeting of European Union broadcasting regulators in Brussels, where national watchdogs from the 25-nation bloc agreed to step up action against TV broadcasts that incite hatred or promote racism and xenophobia. Last year, a French court banned al-Manar from a satellite owned by France's Eutelsat because its broadcasts were deemed anti-Semitic and a potential threat to public order. Dutch regulators discovered that a satellite owned by New...

Group Against The Troops To watch the British-government owned BBC, turn to Dish satellite channel 135. For Communist Chinese propaganda? Go to channel 265. In fact, Dish offers more than 100 foreign channels, many government-owned. Four percent of the Dish satellite bandwidth carries programming at the request of Uncle Sam including government channels from the Universities of Washington and Northern Arizona; something called PBS University and even a channel called Free Speech TV with a show that features in-depth coverage of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues. Yet one group from the lunatic fringe has drawn the line. It wants...

Key GOP senator says he would push for such legislationIndecency guidelines that over-the-air broadcasters must follow should be extended to cover cable and satellite broadcasters, congressional Republicans who are influential on telecommunications issues said yesterday.Most viewers do not differentiate between traditional TV and cable, so they do not know when they might be exposed to objectionable programming, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, the head of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, told the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington."In this country, there has to be some standards of decency," said Stevens, who said he would push for such legislation. The...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is planning to expand its Persian-language satellite-television broadcasts to Iran as part of an initiative to press for democratic reforms in the Islamic Republic, officials say. As President Bush ponders incentives to encourage Tehran to abandon its nuclear ambitions, Voice of America plans to go from a 30-minute to a four-hour daily news and information broadcast to Iran within the next few months. "Iran is an information-deprived society, much like the former Soviet Union," said Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal agency that oversees international civilian broadcasts including VOA....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration plans to begin Arab-language satellite-television broadcasts to Europe later this year in a new escalation of its information war against Islamic extremism, officials say. Three-and-a-half years after Islamic militants based in Germany helped mount the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, U.S.-backed TV channel Alhurra expects to transmit 24-hour programing to European Muslim communities seen as potential breeding grounds of extremism. France and Germany, which have Western Europe's largest Muslim populations, would be a special focus for news and current affairs programs intended to promote an American ethic of free speech and open debate, officials say....

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader said in a videotape broadcast on Sunday that governments could not stop al Qaeda attacks and that the security of the West depended on respect for Islam and an end to aggression against Muslims. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the tape aired by satellite channel Al Jazeera that the "new crusader campaign" -- al Qaeda's term for the U.S.-led "war on terrorism" -- would end in defeat. The Arabic television channel said the tape, which was not dated, was new. That was not immediately possible to verify. It did not mention recent events such...

I read here quite a bit but post very little so I doubt if many (or anyone) will recognize me, but I'm concerned about something that the Dummies are up to and don't know exactly where to post this (or if I even should)-- Don't know if anyone's aware, but the Pentagon has put together a TV channel that's intended to keep the people in the military and their families informed--From what I've been able to determine, they're making it available free of charge to any sattelite company willing to carry it--Sounds like a right fine idea to me in...

MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti, Olga Lipich) - The Moscow Patriarchate plans to set up a national Orthodox Channel to broadcast sermons, films, children's programs, talk shows and soap operas altogether. "We need a TV channel that would speak about the good and the evil, set the examples of a harmonious family life, successful labor, show how to cope with mischief and vice, and how to attain spiritual renovation," Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the deputy chairman of the Department for External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, told RIA Novosti. According to Chaplin, the TV channel should not confine itself to sermons...

Any freepers have experience with "FREE-TO AIR" satellite TV? I surfed the link looking for a radio station guide and saw the following information that I never knew existed. _____________________________________________ You'll be amazed at all of the channels as new channels are added each month. Plus all the networks are there. We are at the beginning edge of a new technological revolution. It’s called, “Free To Air” DVB Television. It won’t be long and there will be little dishes on the roof of every home and looking out the window or on the deck of condo’s and apartments. At the...

HDNet PRESENTS A CONTINUOUS HIGH-DEFINITION VIEW OF BAGHDAD AS IRAQ PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS In an unprecedented move, HDNet is telecasting a live and continuous high-definition view of the streets of Baghdad, in the days leading up to Iraq's first open elections in 50 years. Using its one-of-a-kind flyaway HD uplink, a transportable satellite uplink built and designed by HDNet and connected to a high-definition camera overlooking the city, HDNet will be sending a live continuous, uninterrupted feed to U.S viewers for eight hours each day, from 2:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. ET (10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. in Baghdad), on...

Reports from across Iran are stating about the massive welcoming of President George W. Bush's inaugural speech and his promise of helping to bring down the last outposts of tyranny. Millions of Iranians have been reported as having stayed home, on Thursday night which is their usual W.end and outgoing night, in order to see or hear the Presidential speech and the comments made by the Los Angeles based Iranian satellite TV and radio networks, such as, NITV or KRSI. The speech and its package of hope have been, since late yesterday night and this morning, the main topics of...

Satellite TV customers are facing price rises, as operators Dish Network and DirecTV hatch plans to increase rates, despite an ongoing rivalry with cable providers. Dish Network, owned by EchoStar Communications, plans to raise subscriptions by $2 to $4 a month, the company said Thursday. That translates to an average of 4.3 percent on average charges of $56.11. The new rates will take effect Feb. 1 and affect certain packages, such as the basic service. DirecTV is also planning to announce a rate hike this quarter, but details are not yet available, said Robert Mercer, a company spokesman. Currently, DirecTV...

Does Arab satellite television incite audiences to violence and, indeed, terrorism? This is one of the questions raised at the many conferences on reform that have filled the Arab calendar ever since President George W. Bush called for a democratization of the Middle East. Since all the TV networks in question belong to kings, emirs, sheikhs, viziers, and other big shots, the official answer to the incitement question is an emphatic "No." But anyone who watches Arab TV for a certain length of time, as this writer did over six weeks recently, would regard the official answer as disingenuous. Most...

The Pentagon has created its own 24-hour television channel to cut out the middle man — the national media — in covering news events at the headquarters of the world's most powerful military.     Created with $6 million in congressional funds, the Pentagon Channel earlier this year began airing full coverage of defense press conferences and other programming targeted at U.S. troops. [snip]That's something historic, according to military officials, who explain that the Pentagon Channel marks the first time that the U.S. military has been able to provide its own programming to troops stationed inside the country.[snip] With all programs anchored...

Two political parties presented the proposal to the Dutch parliament last Thursday: The Green Party and the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy. Farah Karimi, an Iranian born member of Dutch parliament from the green party said, there is no political intention behind setting up this television station. In the absence of independent broadcasting media in Iran, she said, the aim of this station would be to help the dissemination of independent news to Iranian audiences and fill the existing vaccum in this area. This is the first time that a European country is involved in establishing a Persian/Farsi television...

Introduction: "The Diaspora" (Al-Shatat), a Syrian-produced TV series, aired last year during the Ramadan on Al-Manar (Hizbollah TV) is now being aired on Iranian TV. The series covers the period of the Zionist movement, and is primarily a depiction of the classic anti-Semitic libel that attributes to Jews the desire for world domination. The series revolves around the "Secret Jewish World Government," whose members sit and plan how to use their control and influence over the leaders of the world to direct all of history. The Jewish Government is shown plotting and causing the Communist revolution in Russia, the World...

PARIS - A French court ordered a prompt end to satellite television broadcasts to Europe by Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group on Monday on grounds they were clearly anti-Semitic and a potential threat to public order. The Council of State, France's highest administrative court, gave the French-based company Eutelsat 48 hours to end the broadcasts beamed from its satellites after finding them in violation of a French legal ban on hate speech. The court said Al-Manar could return to the airwaves if it modified its programs to satisfy French law. France's broadcasting authority, the Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA), sought the ban...

The first nationwide American Muslim TV network has begun operations: on Tuesday, Bridges TV began broadcasting on the GlobeCast World TV satellite system. The network’s launch is the fruit of over three years of work that began not long after 9/11

The first nationwide American Muslim TV network has begun operations: on Tuesday, Bridges TV began broadcasting on the GlobeCast World TV satellite system. The network's launch is the fruit of over three years of work that began not long after 9/11, when the wife of Bridges TV founder and Chief Executive Muzzammil Hassan heard a radio discussion of Islamic radicalism. "Some derogatory comments were being made about Muslims that offended her," said Hassan. "She was seven months pregnant, and she thought she didn't want her kids growing up in this environment." Hassan decided to present a more positive view of...

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NEW YORK, November 28 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The first US Muslim TV channel will see light Tuesday, November 30, with the optimal goal of building “bridges” between Muslims and non-Muslims. Bringing to fruition an idea born in the aftermath of the Sept 11 attacks, New York-based English-language “Bridges TV” is founded by Muzzammil Hassan, a former banker and marketing executive of Pakistani origin, who came to the States in 1979, Reuters news agency reported. Hassan drew up a business plan and raised backing from US investors for the channel, which he says will have 50,000 initial subscribers by...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new television station that claims to be the first U.S. Muslim lifestyle network in English debuts next week, bringing to fruition an idea born in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Bridges TV founder and Chief Executive Muzzammil Hassan, who came to the United States from Pakistan in 1979, said on Friday his wife came up with the idea in December 2001 while listening to the radio on a road trip. "Some derogatory comments were being made about Muslims that offended her," Hassan told Reuters ahead of Tuesday's launch. "She was seven months pregnant,...

One show features a Muslim newspaper reporter named Jinnah who solves whodunits. A soap opera explores the melodrama of a Muslim father confronted with his daughter's desire to marry a non-Muslim. "Allah Made Me Funny" chronicles a Muslim comedy tour. Islamic television, beamed from Buffalo, is coming to a station near Muslims across the country and in Canada. Bridges TV debuts Tuesday, weaving news coverage with music videos, animated children's shows, classic movies and programs about food, travel and culture - all with an underlying theme appealing to American Muslims. The new cable television network is the first in English...

A U.S.-based organization is working with groups and governments around the globe, as well as Iranians themselves, to effect a regime change in Iran through strictly peaceful means. S.O.S Iran, based in Southern California, has a detailed, systematic plan, outlined on its website, to see the Islamic government of Iran ousted and replaced with a constitutional monarchy or free republic. States the group on its homepage: "We support the people of Iran for the removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the establishment of freedom, human rights and a democratic, secular and modern government in Iran." While the organization...

Will be repeated, hooray for Newsmax

Dish network is running a program called Forbidded Films About John Kerry on Chan 9410 LINK. Absolute pro Kerry agenda wrapped in the history of Vietnam. Looking at the rest of the programming, it looks like a 24 hour channel carrying the liberal agenda 100% full force. Excuse me while I get sick....

Right now, the Link Network on Channel 375 on DirecTV is showing Stolen Honor in its entirety.

Bethlehem (AsiaNews) – Al-Mahed (The Nativity) is unique in Palestinian media. Located near the Church of the Nativity, it is the only Private Christian TV station in Palestine and the Middle East. Every Sunday, it broadcasts the Catholic and Orthodox mass from different churches throughout Palestine. On Tuesday, it is Fr Peter Hanna Madrous’s Gospel and Life show. On Friday, it is the Muslim prayer. Until some of its relay antennas were damaged during armed clashes, its signal could reach Jordan and the West Bank. Many Christian leaders in the Holy Land have praised the Bethlehem station for its...

It's titles "Forbidden Films About John Kerry", and runs from 10:00 - 11:30 Central Time. Only about 20 minutes left.