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| Cuba airs Sopranos | |
| 2008-04-21 | |
Cuba will air the award winning US television drama the Sopranos and ongoing series GreyÂ’s Anatomy beginning this week, the Communist youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, said on Sunday.
Juventud Rebelde said the new offer demonstrated the state television’s “proven rigor in the selection of dramas of high ethical quality and powerful presentation.” Despite Communist Cuba’s 50 year ideological confrontation with the United States, its nemeses’s movies, music and television programs remain wildly popular and U.S. movies dominate the television and theater offer. The Sopranos, which concluded in 2007, and Grey’s Anatomy are not the first U.S. television series to be picked up on DVDS, brought to Cuba and broadcast. House, Friends, and Everybody Loves Raymond have entered Cubans’ living rooms, and the forensic series CSI is a huge hit on the Caribbean island where programming is weighted heavily toward educational, variety and children’s programming, propaganda, Latin American and Cuban soap operas and sports. Cuba has four national television channels and various provincial stations, all government operated. Satellite television is prohibited and a cable system provides some international channels, such as CNN, to the tourism industry and foreigners. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I guess CNN is too socialist for the general public. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-04-21 09:02 |
| #1 If cuba was smart it would reform it's govt and cash in on the baby-boomer retirement diaspora that's going to happen over the next 20 years. Or maybe that's what they're doing, dunno. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-04-21 06:18 |