Revolutionising Television in Venezuela

In Venezuela they are a key force in the country’s ongoing media-war. Armed with video cameras, they are a team of some 380 young people working for Caracas television station, Avila TV. Started as an experiment just three years ago, according to one study it is now the third most watched station in the city. Funded completely by the government, they consider themselves a voice of President Hugo Chavez’s “socialist revolution.”

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Melbourne Alt. Media Unity Symposium

The desperate need for community an alternative media to work together in fighting for space in the new technological age has never been greater.

Open Spectrum Australia is organising a symposium in Melbourne entitled Quality//Control on Friday 17 October. It will cover issues pertaining the future of alternative/community media and the possible need for collaboration.

It will involve several guest speakers and workshops to strategise possible ways forward for the media in Australia.


When: 9am-5pm, Friday 17th October 2008
Where: State Library of Victoria Theatrette
328 Swanston Street (corner Latrobe Street)Melbourne VIC 3000
For more information, please contact Open Spectrum Australia, by email info@openspectrum.org.au
Bookings are FREE and can be made here