Cuban Institute of Radio and Television

President: Ernesto López Domínguez.
Military Higher education.

Address: Calle 23 No. 258 e/L y M, Vedado, La Habana

The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television is the organism in charge of directing, to execute and to control the application of the politics of the State and the Government as for the activities of the radio and the television.

Cuba was one of the first countries of Latin America in having the radial and television mass media. Favored by the International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) the island mounted in 1922 its first radial plant. On the other hand the television begins in 1950, being the third country of the hemisphere in introducing this means.

In the years 50, except for counted exceptions, the radio services and television belonged to the economically dominant classes, possessors of the political power who used them to impose convenient ideological and cultural patterns for their ends and interests.

With the victory of the Revolution in 1959, the radio and the television suffer changes for the application of the revolutionary laws, the sector is divided: of one side the owners of the big monopolies that face the revolution, of the other one the small radio transmitters. These last ones unite and integrate an organization denominated Independent Front of Free Radio Stations (IFFRS).

The IFFRS, which supports the revolutionary process, was recognized as leading organism of the radio and the Cuban television. In November of 1960, the 16th, this organism gives to the Revolution its facilities and the operation of the same ones.

The state attention is assigned to the Broadcasting Office, next to the Ministry of Communications and, that is assisted by the Political Direction of the country. In May of 1962, the 24th, by means of the Law 1030 of the Council of Minister from Cuba, it is created the "Cuban Institute of Radio and Television", with the objective of to diffuse and to guide the emissions of the radio and television for the whole national territory. In 1975 the name suffers a change and raisin to be denominated Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), with the same attributions.

From its creation the ICRT has as mission to offer a radial and television programming, keeper of high political, ideological, social, ethical and aesthetic virtues, to the service of the knowledge, the culture, the recreation and the defense of the values and most sacred interests of the Nation and of all its citizens, directed to deepen the highest patriotic and internationalist ideals of our people, in the fight for its independence, sovereignty and national identity, and its love to the construction of the socialism in our Homeland, keeping in mind the interests, necessities and desires from the public to which goes directed.