The immediate goal is expanding the Web presence, knowing it will take at least a year to get onto Comcast.
The audience is mostly male baby boomers eventually, they’d like to reach a younger, more mixed crowd. The shoestring annual budget is $3.5 million. “We are progressive in our politics, critical of the Obama administration when we need to be, not wedded to any unit of the Democratic Party.”įSTV, a nonprofit, gets 70 percent of its funding from viewers, the rest from foundations. We’re not a left-wing propaganda machine for the Democratic Party the way Fox News is for the Republican Party - and they make no bones about it,” Rojas said.
#FREE SPEECH TV TV#
The liberal Free Speech TV maintains it is “political but nonpartisan. Rojas, a longtime journalist, activist and new-media innovator, has secured letters of support for the Comcast bid from former Denver Mayors Wellington Webb and Federico Peña, as well as from the NAACP and the Urban League.Ī Comcast spokesperson on Tuesday said the company is not currently in discussions with Free Speech TV and won’t comment on future programming decisions. “Treat us the same way Dish and DirecTV do.” “Our pitch to Comcast is, consider us as a public-interest channel that covers a lot of diversity issues around the country,” Rojas said. Comcast has announced plans to launch several new channels, including African-American, Latino and Asian, in order to clear regulatory hurdles. “We plan to apply for a Comcast diversity/public interest channel by end of the month,” Rojas said. The streaming numbers have increased substantially in the past year, especially in Denver, where it’s not on cable. If approved, “We will put TV cameras into the Clear Channel studio.”įree Speech TV is theoretically available to 35 million households via satellite but is actually seen by “hundreds of thousands” on any given day. He’s waiting to hear from Clear Channel about turning the last hour of author, Denver Post columnist and radio host Sirota’s KKZN show into a national program. “That’s a similar kind of arrangement we’d like to have with David Sirota,” says Rojas. In September, the network will begin producing a half- hour daily news program - heavy on analysis - to run in the early evening, covering national and global news, with some local stories, as well.Īmy Goodman’s New York- based “Democracy Now!,” for years the most popular show on FSTV, was recently eclipsed by Tom Hartmann’s program, a national TV feed of his radio show from Washington, D.C., studios. Last month FSTV started a news headline program, four minutes at the top of the hour. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuįree Speech TV is available part time on 200 cable affiliates in 39 states Dish network channel 9415 DirecTV channel 348 and live streaming on the Web at.
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