Belsat TV

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station_slogan = Belsat - your right to choose (Белсат – тваё права выбару)
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owner = Telewizja Polska
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airdate = 10 December 2007
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Belsat TV (Belarusian: Белсат, Biełsat, English: TV Belarus, Belsat) - a satellite television channel established on the basis of an agreement between the Polish Foreign Ministry and Polish public television company Telewizja Polska (TVP) dated 23 April 2007. The channel started broadcasting on 10 December 2007. Telewizja Polska received 16 million zlotys from the Polish state budget for the project. The channel is run by about 70 journalists located in Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.

On 20 June 2006 the TVP executive board established a Commission of Belsat TV channel. The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, called Belsat a "stupid and uncongenial project". [ [http://news.tut.by/86821.html TUT.BY | НОВОСТИ - 26 апреля 2007 - Лукашенко: Независимый телеканал - "глупый, бестолковый и недружественный" проект ] ] .

The motto and catchword of channel is: "Belsat - your right to choose". The channel will broadcast in Belarusian, Polish and Russian. Belsat's creators say that the channel will be modern, provide good entertainment and world-standard news, in line with the best TV channels of Central Europe.

External links

* [http://www.belsat.eu Webpage of Belsat]
* [http://belarus-live.tv/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=searchvideos&searchkey=Белсат Belsat Video online]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/belsat_by/ Belsat on LiveJournal]

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