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Link TV broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. These programs provide a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the U.S. media. We connect American viewers with people at the heart of breaking events, organizations in the forefront of social change and the cultures of an increasingly global community.

Link TV is committed to:

• Educating American viewers by offering in-depth programs on issues of regional and world importance. We expose our audience to people they would never meet, to cultures they might never understand and to issues they have yet to consider.
• Providing a global perspective on world issues and culture offering alternate viewpoints that are not U.S.-centric. Through the presentation of other nations' newscasts we offer diverse perspectives on world events. Through personal stories told in Link TV documentaries we humanize the 'other' and counter the tendency to make enemies out of the unknown.
• Giving voice to people without a voice, from communities under-represented in conventional media and unknown to most Americans. Our programs connect viewers not only to the 'movers and shakers' but also to the 'moved and shaken'-- people affected by the news. We cover U.S. domestic issues, showing their connection to global affairs.
• Encouraging action on the part of the viewer. Our programs counter the cynicism and resignation that can result from watching conventional television news. Program trailers and the website gives viewers access to tools and connections to take action on social issues.
• Promoting cross-cultural dialogue through innovative television formats. Live call-in programs provoke discussion on global issues by participants that may be separated by ideological differences and thousands of miles.
• Fostering collaboration through coalition building with partner organizations and grassroots organizations around specific issue programs.

Link TV is the first nationwide television network providing Americans with global perspectives on news, events and culture. This noncommercial channel is available as a basic service in the over 29 million U.S. homes that receive direct broadcast satellite television on DirecTV Ch. 375 and Dish Network Ch. 9410, as well as affiliate cable stations across the nation. Link's 24-hour programming consists of first-run documentaries on global issues, foreign feature films, current affairs series and the best of World Music.