Quechua language TV hits the airwaves in Ecuador (fwd link)

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Quechua language TV hits the airwaves in Ecuador

By Rick Kearns, Today correspondent
Story Published: Dec 4, 2009

LATACUNGA, Ecuador – TV MICC Channel 47 of Ecuador became the country’s first
Quechua-language community television station in July; it’s operated by the
Indigenous and Campesino Movement of Cotopaxi (MICC) and will air 60 percent of
its programming in Quechua.

The new station is located in the city of Latacunga, in north central Ecuador in
an Andean basin that has a large Quechua-speaking population and is near many
other indigenous communities as well.

On July 17, TV MICC hit the airwaves for the first time and reached 400
communities in the provinces of Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, Chimborazo and some parts
of Pichincha and Pastaza in the east.

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