15264: Walton: Hatian-Language TV Channel Ope ns in Miami (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "Walton, Robert" <waltonr@emh1.ftmeade.army.mil>

Extracted from a Miami Herald online article: see
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/5509316.htm for the story.

Regards,

Bob Walton
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Posted on Sat, Mar. 29, 2003

24-hour Haitian channel goes on air
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND DAPHNE DURET
jcharles@herald.com

South Florida's Haitian community will be able to turn on cable television
and get news directly from Haiti or see their favorite Haitian soccer
players battle their opponents.

At 8:15 p.m. Friday, the Haitian Television Network of America (HTN)
officially went on the air as a 24-hour channel offering French- and
Creole-language programming to Comcast customers who live in Miami-Dade and
Broward counties.

The brainchild of Claude Mancuso, HTN is looking to do for Haitian
television what Radio Carnivale WRHB-AM (1020) did for Haitian radio when it
launched nearly three years ago: Revolutionize information gathering in
South Florida's Haitian community by giving the audience 24 hours' worth of
news and programming in their own language.