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On Blanca Eekhout as New Chief of Channel 8

Submitted January 9, 2005 - 12:33 pm by Al Giordano
Ron writes:

Blanca Eekhout Gomez, previously head of the experimental channel Vive, which was intended to be the basis for Telesur, has now been moved to be the new head of Venezolana de Television. Venezolana de Television is the state television station, and has been around for more than 4 decades. What remains to be seen is who will become the head of Vive, this will decide the future of the station, whether it will continue to grow and become a real alternative to the rather calcified model of VTV, or whether it will be coopted and suffer the miserable fate of irrelevance. I certainly hope for the former.

I comment:

Blanca is known to many of our readers and J-School alumni and faculty as a graduate of the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism. She spent 10 days with us on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in 2003, when whe was a volunteer with Community Broadcaster Catia TV, in a popular neighborhood of Caracas.

The loss of Blanca from directing Vive TV, as Ron notes, presents challenges for that fledgling media with continental potential.

But, I have to say, I'm thrilled with the move, which constitutes a promotion of Blanca - an Authentic Journalist and Revolutionary (and a good friend) - to lead the most widely viewed television station in Venezuela. It would be as if Ron Smith or Andrea Hawes were suddenly tapped to lead PBS in the United States (only more significant, since VTV - Channel 8 - has a much wider per capita viewership than Public Broadcasting stations in other lands).

Felicidades a Blanca y todo el equipo narconusista venezolano!

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