In December 2 this year Brazilians should be able to switch on their TV sets and find a new channel, one that is refreshingly free of the endless smut, soap operas, game shows, football chats, evangelical rallies and advertising which mark the current offerings by the main commercial channels. This should be good news for discerning viewers, one of whom is apparently President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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To:Johm Fitzpatrick written by João da Silva,
May 18, 2007
In fact, Lula is so fed up with the low quality of Brazilian television that he has decided to set up a new one.
One of the few times I agree with our President.
This lack of planning was obvious from remarks made by the communication secretary, Franklin Martins, at an informal meeting with foreign correspondents held in São Paulo on May 14. Martins was short on details and long on generalities. Apart from saying that a bill would be sent to Congress or, failing that, a presidential decree would be signed, he was vague about the legal standing of the new station.
What do you expect anything else from Frank Martins? He is another "Xarapão",just like Bonner,Betting,Fatima and that lady in SBT (with a real plastic smile and a dumb broad too).
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Lula is so fed up with the low quality of Brazilian television that....... written by ch.c.,
May 18, 2007
But if I had said it, Joao, you would have disagreed....as usual !
Hmmm.....strange, how you can change your mind as you change your mood ! In my view...you are typically a brazilian junkie...as I said so many times !
I have written numerous times to some of the forum members : stop watching your TV soap operas, the truth and your education is certainly not there !
Smiiiiile !
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TV Lula written by GTY,
May 19, 2007
Great Brazil's equivellent of PBS, I sure hope we can get it here on satelite, I would keep my boat in the dock and hummer in the garage just to stay home and watch Lula TV.
Hmmm.....strange, how you can change your mind as you change your mood
No Ch.c, I dont change my opinion nor the mood. You seem to know so much about our country that sometimes I think that you are a Brazilian self exiled in Switzerland or Brazil itself.You seem to be very bitter about Brazil. Why? You seem to be a very bright guy,but at the same time, stubborn.AES said that the gold price came to $850 and you were calling him and me idiots.If you dont want to discuss about this issue, I will perfectly understand.
I think Fatima is a lot classier than Katie Couric or certainly anyone on the Spanish-language channels that we get in the U.S. I also like the pretty girls in the soccer ball keep-up competitions. Certainly Lula does not oppose this great contribution to Western culture, does he?
Reality TV - The Real Life - On Bolsa Familia Game Show - Slave for a Day Travel - Life of the Rich & Shameless (in Zona Sul) Kids at Night - Strapping It On Kids during the day - To Solicit a Predator
How about Survivor: Las Malvinas where contestants receive a one-way ticket (BYOP - bring your own parachute) on an Argentine military transport plane to the islands and have to hope the pilot doesn't overshoot and throw them out over the South Atlantic.
Or, Queer Eye for the Argentine Guy where members of the Argentine national team primp over their World Cup hairstyles with their live-in male hairdressers.
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... written by Professor,
May 19, 2007
Or, Queer Eye for the Argentine Guy where members of the Argentine national team primp over their World Cup hairstyles with their live-in male hairdressers.
This has more commercial potential-for the Boca Grande cabeludo team.
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IT'S A SHAME NO STATE TV IN BRAZIL written by pobrissima da rocinha,
May 19, 2007
it's a shame, brazili is the only tv station with no public (no private) tv: every civilized country has a state tv: BBC in UK, RAI in Italy, ARD in Germany, RTP in Portugal, CBC in Canada only Brazil does not have it.
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IT'S A SHAME NO STATE TV IN BRAZIL written by João da Silva,
May 20, 2007
Rocinha, KE SOOPREZA.FALA INGLEZ?
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State sponsored propaganda? written by Renato NYC,
May 24, 2007
Greetings!
It is a wonderful idea to have a comercial free channel in Brazil. I hope it will be subject of ample debate regarding the format and SPECIALLY on content presented. If indeed the government will have a say in content, it seems to me a dead idea before it becomes airborn, if the target audience is the "educated brazilians" , tired of the great comercial "opium of the masses" stew, the major networks are knowm for.
I'd sure like to see a channel in the lines of PBS in the US or BBC in the UK, however imperfect those two networks are. It is questionable how independent the proggraming "really "is. Nonetheless, there's outstanding news, newsmagazines, educational proggraming of the highest quality (for my taste, obviously). is just If it is set out to represent the political guidelines of the Workers party, or whichever party to follow in the future, it is just irresponssible and most likelly will not appeal to those in search of an alternative to comercial televevion. PBS has been under tremendous pressures and risk of loss of funds, as well as proposals (by some rignt-wing special interest gruops) in cutting funds, to the extreme of even selling it all to private media companies. Tha battle has been kept at bay by the efforts of people like Bill Moyers, whom stood up in the FCC regulatory hearings of waving the limts on broadcasting corporations holdings of media outlets. (the whole clearinghouse sweeping and rampant aquisition of numerous radio, tv stations and newspapers across America).
PBS is vilified by the neo-conservative fundamentalists for having "secular liberal bias", but then again, anything outside the Fox network to these people, it's labeled "leftist bias" in one way or another.
It should be of great concern to educated Brazilians if Lula would even propose a channel along those lines and starting it by decree seems an act of a monarch to me. Independent and balanced programming is what should be "demandaded" from brazilians, after all they are paying for it in the end.
Comercial networks like Globo will continue its catering to the masses with its POP tv style, I don;t see any change in the tastes of people who find it appealing in any way.
I will sure follow this debate as it is of great interest to me.
PS: What about TVE, isn't that still publicly funded? Any progress in it or it still under-funded and don't reach a wider audience?
I have been watching on occasion , braodcasts from Al Jazeera english version and Telesur. Despite the crticism that it conveys a radical left bias, I haven't really seen it to be that obvious, or even hidden. If you have the habit, as I do, to read between the lines and cut throuh the intrinsic bias, you get left with a very decent news content.
Cheers!
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chop, chop... written by Renato NYC,
May 25, 2007
Please forgive the chopping and unpolished posting. It was not proof read nor spell checked, and written in a hurry.
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I think.. written by bo,
May 26, 2007
they need to expand the cartoon coverage!! It's only on until mid-day through the weekdays!
In December 2 this year Brazilians should be able to switch on their TV sets and find a new channel, one that is refreshingly free of the endless smut, soap operas, game shows, football chats, evangelical rallies and advertising which mark the current offerings by the main commercial channels. This should be good news for discerning viewers, one of whom is apparently President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. 
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One of the few times I agree with our President.
What do you expect anything else from Frank Martins? He is another "Xarapão",just like Bonner,Betting,Fatima and that lady in SBT (with a real plastic smile and a dumb broad too).