CaribVision is an internationally-broadcast English language

English language

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 television channel run by the Caribbean Media Corporation

Caribbean Media Corporation

The Caribbean Media Corporation is a Barbados-based centralised content-provider for the various Caribbean media houses in the region. Formed in June 2000, through the merger of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union and the Caribbean News Agency...

 (CMC)'s national broadcast

Broadcast

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 centre on the island of Barbados

Barbados

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. The main focus of the channel is Caribbean culture, news, current affairs, sports, lifestyle, opinions, and entertainment from a Anglophone Caribbean

Anglophone Caribbean

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 perspective.

CaribVision is currently available in over 20 Caribbean territories and North America, where it broadcasts to the Caribbean-diaspora.

It was previously available in the United States

United States

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 on DirecTV

DirecTV

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 but as of 2008 is no longer available.

Programming

• Caribbean News Review
• Caribbean Newsline
• Caribbean Today
• Riddim Express

Partners and Affiliates

• Caribbean Communications Network Ltd.
  CCN TV6
  The Caribbean Communications Network Television 6 ' is the largest private television broadcaster in Trinidad and Tobago. The station operates an analog composite NTSC 525 television system, broadcasting on channels 6 and 18 in the island of Trinidad, channel 5 on the Flow Cable System and channel...
  
  , (CCN-TV6) - Trinidad & Tobago
• Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
  Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
  The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation is the government-owned media corporation located in Barbados.The television service broadcasts on channel 8 and is the only legally-licensed, over-the-air television channel broadcasting in the country of Barbados...
  
  , (CBC-TV8) - Barbados
• Institute of Cuban Radio & Television, (ICRT) - Cuba
• ZNS Network
  ZNS-TV
  ZNS is a national radio and TV broadcaster operated by the state-owned Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas....
  
  - The Bahamas
• The Creative Production & Training Centre Ltd., (CPTC) - Jamaica
• Television Jamaica Ltd., (TVJ) - Jamaica
• CVM Television Ltd. - Jamaica

External links

• CaribVision - Official website
• Caribbean Media Corporation - cmccaribbean.com - CaribVision - Channel description
• CaribVision: Satellite broadcasting Information - Satellite Configuration information
• Caribbean Net News: Launch of new CaribVision - 4 August 2006 - Caribbean Net News, Cayman Islands