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Free Speech TV (FSTV) is an American progressive news and opinion network. It was launched in 1995 and is owned and operated by Public Communicators Incorporated, a

progressive
perspective.

History

1995–1999

Free Speech TV is an outgrowth of three projects that attempted to establish wider dissemination of progressive perspectives on television:

Webby Award.[citation needed
]

2000–2006

In January 2000—as the result of an FCC-mandated public interest channel set-aside—Free Speech TV became a national, full-time channel on the

2000 US presidential elections, including Democracy Now!'s premiere as a television program at the Republican and Democratic conventions; the September 11 attacks, to which FSTV responded with a daily news report and weekly current affairs program; and extensive coverage of the large global anti-war mobilization and the subsequent U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.[1]

2007–2010

In 2007, FSTV moved from Boulder to Denver, covering events inside and outside the 2008 Democratic National Convention, where Barack Obama accepted his party's nomination for president. Over the following years, the network stepped up its daily coverage of national politics with the addition of GRITtv with Laura Flanders,[2] The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann and Al Jazeera English. FSTV's daily news programs—led by The Thom Hartmann Program and Democracy Now!—became FSTV's top programs in terms of popularity and "stickiness" (a measure of audience engagement and loyalty). During the Arab Spring, FSTV pre-empted much of its regular non-news programming to Al Jazeera English's reporting from Cairo's Tahrir Square and other locations.

2011–2012

In 2011 and 2012, FSTV coverage provided a window into efforts to reform workers' rights in Wisconsin and other states, as well as into the

OTT ("over-the-top") channel, on Roku, in 2011; and launched full-time cable channels in Burlington, Vermont, and Ashland, Oregon
, in 2012.

FSTV and GM Jon Stout were the recipients of the 2010 National Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award, presented by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. This award recognizes individuals and organizations for "a profound commitment to free expression; ethics; media criticism and accountability; racial, gender, and cultural inclusiveness; and public service."

2013–present

In 2013, FSTV started conferring with public television stations to gain over-the-air and cable carriage in major urban markets. The shutdown of the progressive channel

Fault Lines shows when Al Jazeera launched Al Jazeera America. The news programming was replaced with news from France 24
.

On September 9, 2013, Bill Press joined the channel with his simulcast of

The Bill Press Show, which moved over from the defunct Current TV. In January 2014 the channel added The Stephanie Miller Show, also from the defunct Current TV after a successful Indiegogo
campaign to raise funds to build the show's new radio/TV studio, buy equipment and produce the show. This reunites the former Current TV morning block on Free Speech TV.

In October 2013 Free Speech TV and

Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM, Los Angeles. Uprising Radio
was the longest running daily morning show on Southern California public radio before premiering as a television show on Free Speech TV.

In recent years, FSTV's television footprint has grown to more than 40 million homes. The network's monthly viewership (cume) nearly doubled to more than 1 million households over a two-year period between 2012 and 2014.[citation needed]

Funding

Free Speech TV is a project of Public Communicators, Inc., a non-profit,

501c3
tax-exempt organization FSTV is supported primarily through philanthropic contributions from thousands of viewers and from foundations dedicated to independent media and social, economic and environmental justice.

Availability

FSTV is currently available in more than 40 million television homes nationwide, airing full-time on Dish Network (9415), DirecTV (348), Burlington Telecom (122) and Ashland Home Net (96). Select programs are syndicated on 177 community cable stations in 40 states. FSTV is also available as a 24/7 linear feed and as videos-on-demand—on freespeech.org and on Roku, an "over-the-top" distribution platform that streams video over the Internet onto connected television sets. FSTV also has a feed on the Sling TV service. Other content is syndicated on Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and other social networking sites.

Programming

Free Speech TV broadcasts syndicated news programs and documentaries that deal with social, political, cultural and environmental issues. Independently produced news programs broadcast on FSTV include:

News

Talk shows and radio shows

Other programs

See also

References

  1. ^ Vincent Stehle, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 18, 2013, not "{http://philanthropy.com/article/How-a-Misguided-War-Led-to-a/137985/ Source1}", March 19, 2013
  2. ^ PageOneQ, "PageOneQ", May 12, 2008, "Source 2", October 14, 2010
  3. ^ "The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow". Free Speech TV. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  4. ISSN 0099-9660
    . Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  5. Media Roots
    . 22 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.

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