HispanTV
HispanTV is an Iranian Spanish language news channel operated by IRIB, Iran's state-controlled broadcaster. It began broadcasting in December 2011.[2]
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| Type | Pay television |
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| Country | |
| 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 | Channel 1509 |
| Time Warner Cable | Channel 228 |
| Cable & WirelessCable & Wireless (Panama) | Channel 518 |
| TCC (Uruguay) | Channel 45 |
| Personal TV (Paraguay) | Channel 340 |
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 Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia, Spain, 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 Hispanophone Latin America, Latin-American citizens of Iranian descent, Hispanics 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
- Enfoque
- Detrás de la razón
- El color del dinero
- Irán hoy
- Diálogo abierto
- La gran historia
- Cine a contracorriente
- 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
- Sebastián Salgado
- Raquel González
- Andrés Sal-lari
- Rony Curvelo
- Alejandro Kirk
- Karin Molfinqueo
- Álvaro Altamiranda
- Mauricio Inostroza
- Robinson Robles
- Vladimir Chamorro
- Juan José Dorado
- Héctor Chinchilla
- Miguel Salay
- Gerardo Torres
- Samaneh Kachui
- Maryam Saeedi
- Ali Gudarzi
- Arturo Calvillo
- Jimmy Sánchez
- Sara Morales Gallego
- Juan Cáceres Troche
- Francisco Zacarías
- Jorge de la Quintana
- Carlos Rubén Rodríguez
- Cristian Eloy Torres
- Rafael González
- Eduardo Lopez Jamar
- Oriol Puig
- Bashar Barazi
- María Eugenia Rodríguez
- Marcelo Sánchez
- Lluís Miquel Hurtado
- Marcos Salgado
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] HispanTV's Youtube channel has now been blocked due to pressure to Google by the ADL.[7]
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] HispanTV claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic "is the result of a Zionist plot...This virus serves Zionism's goals to decrease the number of people in the world and prevent it from increasing."[8][9]
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.[10]
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-01-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "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. Archived from the original on 2016-06-23. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
- "QUÉ ES HISPANTV". www.hispantv.com. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2013-07-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Iran's Hispan TV Follows Press TV's Footsteps With Live Stream On YouTube". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- HispanTV. ""Lobby sionista" busca el bloqueo de HispanTV en Youtube". HISPANTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- "International Scapegoating of Israel and Jews for Spreading COVID-19". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- "Informe: El nuevo coronavirus es resultado de un complot sionista". HISPANTV (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 May 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- "Antisemitisim in Venezuela 2013". Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.