Link TV

Link TV is a non-commercial liberal progressive American satellite television network providing "diverse perspectives on world and national issues." It is carried nationally on DirecTV (ch. 375) and Dish Network (ch. 9410). It is broadcast over the air in the Los Angeles area on the 28.2 subchannel of KCET. Link TV was launched as a daily, 24-hour non-commercial network in 1999. It receives no money from the satellite providers, but relies instead on contributions from viewers and foundations.

Link TV broadcasts a mix of documentaries, global and national news, music of diverse cultures, and programs promoting citizen action. The network also airs English language news from Deutsche Welle, NHK and France 24, as well as various documentaries and world music videos. Select Link TV programs are streamed on the Internet, via the channel's website at www.linktv.org.

The network also produced Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, a program of translated news reports from the Middle East.

Kim Spencer

Kim Spencer (born 1948 in Geneva, Illinois) is an American television producer and executive.

Education and early career

Kim Spencer holds a B.A. in Political Science from Reed College and did graduate work in Urban Planning at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Professional career

In 1979, Kim Spencer founded Public Interest Video Network, a consortium of independent media makers in Washington, DC, that produced several innovative live broadcasts for [PBS], including “Nuclear Power: The Public Reaction” (1979) after the [Three Mile Island] power plant incident, and “America at Thanksgiving” (1980), which featured humorist Art Buchwald having a two-way TV conversation with diverse families at their holiday dinner tables across the US.

In 1982 Spencer co-founded Internews Network, a global non-profit organization supporting independent media and access to quality information worldwide, with Evelyn Messinger and David M. Hoffman. With his partner Messinger, he produced a series of satellite “spacebridges” between the US and Soviet Union, including “The Moscow Link,” a live two-way exchange between Russian scientists and the first global conference on “nuclear winter” sponsored by Carl Sagan and Paul R. Erlich in Washington, DC (1982).