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Article: TV Marti Signal Clear on the Hill; Despite a Dearth of Viewers, Broadcasts to Cuba Still Will Be Funded
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- The Washington Post
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- October 25, 1995
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As far as can be determined, TV Marti has almost never been seen
in Cuba. For five years, the station's 49-member staff has reported
news, edited stories, stood at the mike and put out a report destined
for oblivion.
The idea is to broadcast news and public service programming to
the Communist island, but ever since the surrogate station went on
the air in March 1990, the Cubans have jammed it. Federal researchers
have searched assiduously and in vain for a TV Marti audience.
This year TV Marti will cost U.S. taxpayers $11.6 million, and
next year about the same. The money is there -- a line item in the
Senate appropriations bill for the Departments of Commerce, Justice
and State, the ...