Link TV is a non-commercial American satellite television

Satellite television

Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...

 network providing "diverse perspectives on world and national issues." It is carried nationally on DirecTV

DirecTV

DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

 and Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

. 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

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 news from Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...

 and Al Jazeera English, as well as various documentaries

Documentary film

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 and world music video

Music video

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s. Select Link TV programs are streamed on the Internet, via the channel's website at www.linktv.org.

The network also produces Mosaic: World News from the Middle East

Mosaic: World News from the Middle East

Mosaic: World News from The Middle East is a daily news program offered by the free American satellite channel, LinkTV. Mosaic features selections from television news programs produced by broadcast outlets throughout the Middle East. The news reports are presented unedited, translated into English...

, a program of translated news reports from the Middle East

Middle East

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In 2010, Link TV announced the launch of ViewChange.org, an online video platform funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family"...

 that aims to raise awareness of global development issues. It applies Semantic Web

Semantic Web

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 technology to video, in order to automatically create links to related content from other online sources.

Production facilities for Link TV are in San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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, Washington D.C. and New York City

New York City

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• Mosaic: World News from the Middle East
  Mosaic: World News from the Middle East
  Mosaic: World News from The Middle East is a daily news program offered by the free American satellite channel, LinkTV. Mosaic features selections from television news programs produced by broadcast outlets throughout the Middle East. The news reports are presented unedited, translated into English...
  
  
• Mosaic Intelligence Report
• Global Pulse
• Latin Pulse
• CINEMONDO
• Global Spirit
• Explore
• Earth Focus
• Who Speaks for Islam
• Bridge to Iran
• Real Conversations
• Global Lens
• Oceans 8
• DOC-DEBUT
• 4REAL
• Men of Words
• Lunch with Bokara
• Bokara's Conversations on Consciousness
• U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project
• Ethics and the World Crisis
• ColorLines
• Future Express
• Connections
• The Israel Lobby

Licensed

• Deutsche Welle
  Deutsche Welle
  Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...
  
   Journal
• Al Jazeera English World News
• Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now!
  Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
  
  
• In Focus
• Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem
• TED Talks
• Witness
• Arab Labor
  Arab Labor
  Arab Labor is a sitcom television series, produced in Israel. The series which premiered on Keshet Channel 2 in Israel in 2007 and on Link TV in the Fall of 2008, was created by Sayed Kashua....
  
  
• Rappers, Divas, Virtuosos: New Music From the Muslim World