SOCIAL MEDIA - Argentina to suspend RT from national broadcasting

The Argentinian state media authority has decided to suspend the nationwide broadcast of RT Spanish. In 2014, RT became the first foreign TV channel to be shown on national television in Argentina. According to an official notification from the national RTA SE media body, the suspension will come into force in 60 days. The channel will be excluded from free transmission, but will still remain in paid TV packages.The media governing body expressed its “gratitude” for a fruitful cooperation and the contribution of RT Spanish to the national satellite and digital broadcasts in a letter signed by RTA’s Maria Eugenia Martinez, who emphasized that current notification of suspension “does not prevent the conclusion of other future partnerships.” On June 7, a similar letter was sent to the pan-Latin American terrestrial and satellite television network TeleSUR TV, notifying that its broadcasting in Argentina would be suspended within 15 days. TeleSUR President Patricia Villegas denounced the move as “censorship” on the part of the right-wing Argentine president Mauricio Macri and his government. Both letters cited the “need to renew the program listings” of Argentina’s Experimental System of Digital Terrestrial Television and Satellite Television Systems as the reason for suspensions. Read the entire article, clicking HERE INC News, 11/06/2016 - source: ©RTNews