Link TV
| Link TV | |
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| Owned by | KCETLink |
| Slogan | Television without Borders |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters |
Burbank, California (with production offices in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, California) |
| Website | linktv |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| KCET (Los Angeles) | Channel 28.2 |
| KRCB (Cotati, California) | Channel 22.1 (1-5 AM) |
| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | Channel 375 |
| Dish Network | Channel 9410 |
| Cable | |
| EATV1 (San Francisco) | 27 |
Link TV, original WorldLink TV, is a non-commercial liberal / progressive American satellite television network providing what it describes as "diverse perspectives on world and national issues." It is carried nationally on DirecTV (ch. 375) and Dish Network (ch. 9410). It is broadcast over the air in the Los Angeles area on the 28.2 subchannel of KCET. Link TV was launched as a daily, 24-hour non-commercial network in 1999. It receives no money from the satellite providers, but relies instead on contributions from viewers and foundations.
Link TV broadcasts a mix of documentaries, global and national news, music of diverse cultures, and programs promoting citizen action. The network also airs English language news from Deutsche Welle, NHK and France 24, as well as various documentaries and world music videos. Select Link TV programs are streamed on the Internet, via the channel's website at www.linktv.org.
The network also produced Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, a program of translated news reports from the Middle East.
Link TV previously carried programming from Al Jazeera English, but the programming was discontinued as part of Al Jazeera's entry into the U.S. market with Al Jazeera America. Al Jazeera English's news programming was replaced by that of France 24.
Direct satellite broadcaster were mandated to set aside 4% of its channel space for noncommercial educational and informational programming. ITVS, Internews Network and Internews Interactive joined in forming Link Media Inc. to program a channel, WorldLink TV, for this mandate. WorldLink TV was one of the nine channels select to meet the mandate for DirecTV.
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