Distribution
teleSUR is available free-to-air via satellite to Latin America, the United States, Western Europe and Northern Africa. The network's availability through cable television have been very limited in Latin America because of the network's editorial approach to several events and governments in the region; the station manager in 2007, Aram Arahonian said in an interview that "cable owners do not provide us with any access it's not frequent, but it has affected us in the large countries. For example, in México there exists a duopoly, Televisa and Televisión Azteca. In Argentina, almost everything is dominated by the Clarin group. In Brazil the case is different, the country is the leader in the pay TV market in Latin America with 14 million subscribers (45 million viewers) and almost one million new homes subscribed in the first quarter of 2012, according to the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), but the distributors are not committed to bringing a channel in Spanish with political interests.
The availability of the channel via terrestrial television is very limited in the vast majority of Latin American countries. The only countries in the region that receives all teleSUR's broadcasts via terrestrial television are Venezuela and Ecuador, whose governments are sponsors of the channel. teleSUR is currently available via Digital Terrestrial Television in Argentina, as part of the Government-sponsored channel line-up which includes several other public service, educational, music, sports and news channels. Venezuela started broadcasting teleSUR via terrestrial television on February 9, 2007 and Ecuador on July 15, 2009. The rest of the sponsor countries broadcast some of the networks' programs, mainly the news, in their public and educational channels (see list of sister channels). The network started in February 2008 to broadcast some news programming to Brazil in Portuguese through several community stations in the state of Paraná. On September 27, 2009, teleSUR president Andrés Izarra announced an agreement with public TV stations in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau to broadcast some of the channel programming in Portuguese in the context of the Second Africa-South America Summit, held in Venezuela.
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