Type | State media |
---|---|
Country | Iran |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Spanish [1] |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting [1] |
Key people | Ali Ejarehdar (General Director) |
Sister channels | IRINN, Al-Alam News Network, Press TV, iFilm |
History | |
Launched | 21 December 2011 |
Links | |
Website | hispantv.com, Telegram, Twitter and LinkedIn |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
UHF (Puerto Rico) | Channel 33.1 (Fajardo; WRUA) Channel 18.2 (Naranjito; WECN) |
HispanTV is an Iranian Spanish language news channel operated by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran's state-controlled broadcaster. It began broadcasting in December 2011. [2]
HispanTV's programming has been distributed in Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, Cuba and other countries worldwide. The channel is similar to Press TV, an English language news channel and Al-Alam an Arabic satellite TV station also owned by the Iranian state.
HispanTV has foreign journalists from Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia, Spain, and Venezuela. It also has journalists from Iran who speak Spanish.
The primary goal of HispanTV is to provide a complete platform of multimedia services to Hispanophone Latin America, Latin-American citizens of Iranian descent, Hispanics of the United States, Muslim minorities of the Hispanophone world, and Spanish-speaking foreign residents in Iran, offering an opportunity for cultural exchange through television and web broadcasts. [3]
In July 2013, HispanTV and other Iranian channels were removed from several European and American satellites.[ citation needed ] HispanTV is no longer aired in Spain as Spain is a member of the EU and HispanTV now exclusively broadcasts in Hispanic America. HispanTV "tried to bypass sanctions by providing live feeds of its networks through YouTube". [4] HispanTV's YouTube channel has now been blocked due to pressure to Google by the ADL. [5]
The Anti-Defamation League has stated that "HispanTV regularly broadcasts anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist conspiracy theories" and that Iran's "influence in Latin America has been a strong feature of the Iranian government’s foreign policy in the last decade, and HispanTV serves as a platform to spread Tehran’s conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism". [4] HispanTV claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic "is the result of a Zionist plot...This virus serves Zionism's goals to decrease the number of people in the world and prevent it from increasing." [6] [7]
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