Telestreet is an Italian movement that set up pirate TV stations in several metropolian areas in Italy. The movement has started up in Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

 with a small transmitting station, OrfeoTv, which was founded by media theorist and activist Franco "Bifo" Berardi

Franco Berardi

Franco "Bifo" Berardi is an Italian Marxist theorist and activist working in the autonomist tradition and mainly focusing on the role of the media and information technology in post-industrial capitalism...

; since June 2002, this micro-tv has been broadcasting for a few hours a day within a range of 200 metres.

There are now nearly one hundred mini TV stations across Italy. Their transmitting hardware contains slightly modified receiver electronics.

The telestreet are usually promoted by organizations, groups or individuals who use the facility for television and social utility of group profit, with the aim of making the television a free communication tool like a newspaper or a website.

External links

• http://affinityproject.org/practices/telestreet.html
• http://www.telestreet.it
• http://www.liberta-ilfilm.it (a documentary about the telestreet station TMO (TeleMonteOrlando))
• http://www.archive.org/details/telestreet2 a short movie about the movement