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Article: TV Marti panel says keep it on air despite big costs, few viewers. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- March 31, 1994
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WASHINGTON _ A congressionally mandated panel on Thursday recommended continuing U.S. government television broadcasts to Cuba despite finding that TV Marti has never been seen by more than a tiny fraction of Cubans.
The independent panel, which conducted an exhaustive three-month study, acknowledged that TV Marti in its present form is not cost-effective. It cited a survey showing that only 4 percent of Cuban emigres claim to have ever seen the broadcast, and many of those only caught ``fleeting glimpses.''
Still, the panel called for spending $1 million in the next year to convert the station's transmissions from VHF to UHF, thereby temporarily foiling Cuban jammers ...
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