Dos Cubanos en Canal 3

[Robert Grant]

After WEDU had been in steady for a few hours, the opening on the afternoon of 6/16 shifted Southward (usually, Es shifts to the Northwest during summer openings), and it became the best Cuban Es opening I've ever had.
One station first overrode and then completely replaced WEDU, and was zero offset (this is usually presumed to be Santa Clara, VC), and was carrying long speeches by an unk man, followed by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. However, ANOTHER channel 3, zero offset came in, first with spanish subtitles, then some show with the bug "conce si no" in the lower right (the phrase makes no sense: "si no" means "if not", but there is no verb "concer" nor "consar" {the bug DID NOT say "conoce.." which would have been a valid verb}).
Now, on the stronger ch3, the Chavez show ended at about 1950 (EDT/HCV), so they filled the rest of the hour with two music videos (one by Silvio Rodriguez, the other "Imagine" by John Lennon w/ss subtitles).
at 2000 (EDT/HCV), both these merged for national news (which has been standard practice in Cuba for decades), followed by a multichannel program promo ("Esta Noche en TV"). One of these (I believe the stronger one, and likely Santa Clara) IDed as "Cubavision", but I could not catch the ID from the other, and, after which, the two zero-offset channel threes had seperate programs.

Any ideas on which 2 stations I was seeing?

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Robert Grant, N8NU
Temperance, MI (EN81fs)

[cd637299]

Cool to get 2 ch 3's from Cuba! All I know about is Santa Clara which is indeed Cubavision (but as I mentioned last year, runs Canal Educativo shows in late morning like 11am to 12:30pm).

Dunno the other one....BTW w/ the Chavez thing, was that a feed of Telesur Venezuela satellite TV? Telesur logo is 3 or 4 little squares w/ different colors in upper right, in no particular pattern. If u see it, don't think "hey I got Venezuela".....Cuban TV runs it a bit.

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[Robert Grant]

No, there were no "bugs" on this broadcast.
The program was about someone being inaugurated to a position of office in a government, the event may actually have been in Cuba (there were other speakers before Chavez, who was the last speaker).
I was sure this was Cuba from the start (the steady signal, the smooth transition of the opening from WEDU, the overmodulated audio), and Cuba often presents Chavez in its media (Venezuela is now quite possibly Cuba's closest ally), just as it would not be unusual to see G W Bush on a Canadian newscast.
One would assume that the other cuban on 3 almost had to be Tele Rebelde, as Educativo has not transmitters on 3 (BTW, I did catch Educativo on 4 under WFOR, a new logging (Habana, the only Educativo on VHF).