TV DX from South Florida 2: Cuba 1996-2004

[@FloridaTVDX]

Look everyone, unedited NTV intros! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qomkeWSomM6NaLs kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnTRdHyCaJ2Ke6M Since my edits are so controversial, here are the content matches for the NTV opens (feeding the unmuted version into Shazam): 2:25 Mundo Mio by Silvito El Libre (doesn't sound even a little bit like the news intro, and recording predates the song by like a decade... obviously an error) 8:00 Rock Para Las Masas by Porno para Ricardo kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2XcZoOooM2UfqM

[@kaboomgamer333]

I like how you actually explain the censorship instead of leaving us to figure it out :)

[@baragonkunfan94thesecondar60]

TYSM

[@jeykiesalt]

Whats the first intro at 2:25? hopefully there's an unedited version somewhere or its lost media

[@tapekeep]

11:40 - This signal is so clean I would be easily fooled into thinking it was recorded by someone in Cuba instead of 200 kilometers away in Florida :o

[@christopherdunne7848]

Thanks!

[@friesareyummy]

Right. Analog Tropo/E-Skip did wonders.

[@mayavenuemisfit814]

​@@friesareyummythat it did. A lot of the Canadian stations I used to pick up in Pennsylvania came in better than our locals during those events.

[@dpf2122]

Fascinating look inside Cuba. Thanks for sharing.

[@davidvelazquez9473]

I remember Canal Educativo on channel 14 when I was at my aunt's house!

[@christopherdunne7848]

Where do you live, David?

[@davidvelazquez9473]

Lake Worth, FL

[@christopherdunne7848]

The "3" in the weather report stands for "Tercera Emision" (Third Edition), their third report of the day.

[@mutestingray]

I usually have my tercera emision around the same time during the day.

[@ElInquisidorOL]

So, until 2009 the Cuban newscast was named for this way: Noon news: TV noticias (today Noticiero del mediodía) Prime news: NTV (today Noticiero estelar) Midnight news: Tercera emisión (next Noticiero del cierre, today Resumen 24)

[@VhectorDesignStudio]

In Cuba the word Copyright does NOT exist. Lol.

[@solojinglesradio1]

So what's the title of news intro if it's copyrighted? Can not see it on shazam or Content ID

[@kannakamui9058]

5:26 frikin love the jingle brooo

[@nicolerichwine5767]

The little airline-announcementlike "ding!" accompanying the Propaganda Bonus sign coming up at about 1:01 made me laugh out loud.

[@AbiTF]

In 2020 Jose Rubiera follows on Cuban TV He makes a special weather forecast about Carribean on Carribean Channel of Cuba at 10p

[@baragonkunfan94thesecondar60]

do you have the full recording of the 1996 CMDH DX? i would like to see the full cubavision NTV ident without the muted parts

[@solojinglesradio1]

I don't think there's copyrighted music

[@JASFMXL]

6:14 TV Ad against Abortion 10:38 That's cuban public transportation for you. 11:14 European style news intro. 13:03 There was a similar show on Mexican TV in mid 80s.

[@darelltorgamenendez4919]

6:14 I never saw that commercial against abortion on TV in my country, nor have they ever talked to me about it. It seems that they stopped transmitting it and nobody remembers it.

[@retnavybrat]

6:25 -- Dr. Rubiera is still doing the weather over 20 years later. I don't know if he's still on Cuban TV, but he does a general weather report in English on Radio Havana Cuba (shortwave).

[@darelltorgamenendez4919]

So far still active

[@NotYourMamasChannel]

One thing that strikes me is that it is perfectly legal to pick up Cuban channels here that criticize our government. But doing this vice versa in Cuba is a big no no and can get you thrown in jail.

[@Anthonybchannel]

Or even worse

[@themrpoopo]

In 8:14 exactly you have the best stalinist example of censorship. Two years early another baseball player apear in that frame, buy he "defected" and later "erase" from this intro. Look closely and try to notice the subtle change. If you can find any recording from the same intro around the years 2000-2001 yo will see other player in the same frame.

[@christopherdunne7848]

¡Muy interesante!

[@gabrielinfantecarrillo4769]

Eco was a 24 international news channel in Spanish broadcast from Mexico City. The channel was owned and created by Televisa in 1988, it went off the air in 1997.

[@ElInquisidorOL]

In 2001 was the end of the ECO

[@Flamingbro69]

10:24 XD, the Windows XP Logoff Sound

[@darelltorgamenendez4919]

12:23 The Opening Of One TVClass 13:10 One Episode of "Cecilín & Coti" (:-D)

[@mutestingray]

Can you really call yourself a rebel if you’re the authority ?

[@tkng2001]

12:45 Is a Japanese program.

[@kevmichael2064]

Hi I viewed channel 6 Havana Cuba.... from Riverside CA....via E-Skip...on Channel 6.....in the 90s....

[@dennislema4738]

Why were the CBS, NBC, ECO NOTICIAS(from Televisa), CNN and Univision logos in this video starting from 4:05-4:40

[@christopherdunne7848]

This was from around 1993ish.... I suppose it was Cuba's way of showing that they had access to these networks---a big deal in Cuba in the 1990s, in my opinion.

[@RJohnLloyd]

I might be wrong, but I couldn't help but think that"Hoy mismo" could perhaps have been the Cuban equivalent of "Der schwarze Kanal" from East Germany that took clips from West German television and added onscreen commentary with a heavy communist slant. Mind you, with Cubavisión et al openly bootlegging American TV and the authorities in East Berlin eventually conceding that there was a choice, not to say a better one, and they couldn't do all that much about it, I can't be sure.

[@DoctorLemon]

No, actually it was just a news programme with foreign news taken from international sources. In fact NTV used ECO and CNN clips for their news.

[@shizukaPNW]

3:25 they really be playing "camel - freefall" in the background

[@swastigandha]

LITERALLY WHAT I WAS THINKING LMAOOOOO

[@RamageBotOfficialChannel]

The 2004 logos look decent, to be honest. Specially the educational channel

[@SrSander]

yeah, they don't look that bad

[@loboapaixonado5675]

the test pattern on the 13:42 is from USSR

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Obviously a holdover.

[@Сергей200]

Television equipment was made in USSR.

[@univision9336]

C1R

[@LuisCalderon_HN]

10:24 was that Windows XP?

[@friesareyummy]

lol

[@nickmichiotis]

Maybe the sound came from the PC where the video transfer happened.

[@martianbuilder5945]

How the heck do you get TV signals from *120 miles* away? Is that how it used to be before digital TV?

[@friesareyummy]

It still is the case, just that the signal needs to be a bit stronger to be picked up by a regular antenna. I have picked up a few stations out of different areas through tropo (and documented one example of it here on YT).

[@davidlineweaver2263]

It doesn't help that many digital TVs won't tune into a station that didn't show up on your most recent re-scan. In the analog days, when conditions were ripe for this type of thing, you could just turn your dial and immediately see that you're getting a fuzzy channel 2 or 3 or 7 that you don't normally get. Not so easy now.

[@1L6E6VHF]

Tropospheric Propagation. Over waterways (in this case, the Florida Strait), humid air, cooled by water above it, causes the signal path to follow the curve of the earth - to your antenna.

[@KeganDXer]

12:35 -- CMBR -- 1 second in -- It appears to be a 0khz CCI beat from WFOR 4 Miami. (And a "CBS 4" (If it was already called that) logo ghosting in and out). It's possible that both WFOR and CMBR were zero offset.

[@1L6E6VHF]

I agree, and the WFOR logo is easily seen.

[@AbiTF]

6:26 is Jose Rubiera Cuban Man Weather

[@KeganDXer]

0:37 to 0:56 -- I'm guessing what appears to be a 10khz CCI beat could be from WTVJ 6 Miami.

[@danpete6623]

What's your tv antenna set up? I guess you get good signal when you don't have to worry about trees and mountains just a straight shot more or less

[@christopherdunne7848]

These are my videos. Ryan uploaded them in good quality for me. Basically it's an outdoor TV antenna. Better to donthis from the Florida Keys---but sometimes I see it from my home 22.5 miles northwest of Miami.

[@imrustyokay]

11:44 Was the girl on the right really wearing the Playboy Bunny?

[@darelltorgamenendez4919]

Yeah

[@generalcanadianentertainme2272]

I loved watching Cubavision.

[@univision9336]

2:12 cubavision

[@KoichiFirst8092]

13:40 Cuban UEIT test pattern? (UEIT originates from Soviet Union)

[@patrickjohnson1483]

next, you should go to Cuba and try to pick up the Florida stations.

[@MegaRafaelloco]

You actually could pick them up at the beginning, with special made antennas, you could watch Univision and CNN from a house in Havana, but then Castro began to crackdown on those people. Can't have people realizing that their country sucks now can we?

[@reiza97]

such as smuggling atsc receiver to cuba?

[@Inescapeium]

@@MegaRafaelloco Castro is dead now so I think it might be possible. Cuba is still a communist state tho.

[@MarkShannonroad_videos]

Loved the George W. Bush bit at 10:08.

[@erickrosales2590]

Seeing that part is creepy!!

[@MegaRafaelloco]

they had a commercial back then were Bush was compared to Hitler.

[@Anthonybchannel]

See even other countries compared the guy to Hitler then

[@k17800]

10:23 damn there windows XP sounds

[@itz2komplikayted207]

I WONDER about an ODD channel from YEARS BACK, in the ANALOG days, called WDLP, I THINK, there was some WEIRD stuff on THAT channel, SOME of it was something called "Scola", I THINK, there was some "VARIOUS-VARIOUSNESS" on THAT channel ... IT LOOKED a BIT like THIS, with it's FORMAT of JUMPING FROM ASPECT TO ASPECT - "MAGAZINE FORMAT", I THINK it's CALLED ... PERHAPS it was a MULTILINGUAL channel ...? 🤔🤔🤔 Does ANYONE remember WDLP? Or WHA-956? With it's EDUCATIONAL access? OMG, I SOOOOO MISS Cable-T.A.P., and THINGS like THIS ... THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS!!! 😃👍😃👍😃👍

[@902Steeler]

Just wondering how I can can record my captures on a computer? Does anyone do this?

[@rodrigodiaz252]

Very good video ! Now if you want to see tv from Cuba need digital TV Converter Box, format ( DTMB ) from China

[@joshm264]

No, while they broadcast in that standard, they still have plenty of analog TV stations

[@Shortcarl]

I think DTMB should be expanded into pro-China communist puppet states replacing ATSC, ISDB-T or DVB-T during World War III.

[@NiteGrite]

8:49 did anyone notice the tve logo

[@JASFMXL]

Also noticed the terryfing background music xD

[@NiteGrite]

@@JASFMXL it sounds like a 80s horror movie

[@alexanderarce3341]

Did Cuba ever air Pro Wrestling from Cuba or from the U.S.?

[@nathandebartolo8330]

I never knew slam poetry was a thing in Cuba.

[@rafaelrodriguez1029]

I watched TV from Florida for many years in Havana until I got the fortune of leaving that diabolic system. I watched all the flights to the moon and my living room was full of people, including some communists.

[@christopherdunne7848]

Good to have you here!

[@nathandebartolo8330]

What kind of antenna were you using? Do you remember which yanqui stations you watched?

[@rafaelrodriguez1029]

@@nathandebartolo8330 I didn't watch any Yankee station. Everything was from Florida and sometimes Alabama. I understand for everybody out of America, every American is a Yankee. For us that is not the case. We consider Yankees the northerners. Well I used several antennas during those years. I used for a long time a "4 story" collinear array designed for channel 10 but the bandwidth was decent enough to watch other channels, including channel 4 from Miami. I tried log-periodic with decent results. However the yagi was the champion but it is very narrow. In my memory I keep several stations. Some of them have changed the call signs. WTVJ Channel 4 CBS affiliate, Miami WCKT Channel 7 NBC affiliate, Miami WPLG Channel 10 ABC affiliate, Miami WCIX Channel 6, independent, Miami WINK Channel 11, Fort Myers WPEC Channel 4, West Palm Beach WTVT Channel 13, Tampa And some other not everyday. It was an effective way to stay informed in a country dominated by the devil communism, where it is impossible to watch or read anything but what they publish and want the people to believe. They didn't mention the flights to the moon on Cuban media. Thanks God in mid 70's I could leave Cuba and I have never returned and I will never return. Thank you for your comment.

[@nathandebartolo8330]

@@rafaelrodriguez1029 I wonder if you could see the actual Saturn V rocket lift off from Cuba. I saw it in Miami when they launched Apollo 17 at night. Even the sound travelled that far.

[@rafaelrodriguez1029]

@@nathandebartolo8330 Honestly, I remember very well that night of Apollo 17 and looked in direction to Florida but I didn't see it. Amazing you saw it in Miami. You are making me going back in time to memorable days when America was top notch despite Vietnam and other problems.

[@johntorres2965]

Well there a signal jammers in the sea of Florida do you prevent 2nd world singnals

[@DLBZ1975]

When ATV6 and ATV9 In Los Olivos ,Lima is been TV Dxing By inispired Carlos Bautista on 27:54 Weird Cubavision Ident 0:44

[@dariqaa]

1:56 UN PARTIDO (one party) UN FIDEL (one Fidel) Y UNA PATRIA MUERTE (and a fatherland to die for) VENCEREMOS (let us march forward)

[@BricksTVArchives]

Patrisimo o Muerte, Venceremos is Patriotism or death, We will prevail!

[@rafaelrodriguez1029]

One kaka, one devil...

[@tvcdb724]

12:35 CBS WFOR 4 CCI 0hz

[@baragonkunfan94thesecondar60]

best part at 2:13

[@dawidtan8]

Nah, My best part is 7:42 cuz of Catchy Music

[@samueIferreira]

YEAH!!!!

[@SBTKostya2008]

Info, Fair Use, Equipment: (0:00) CMBC 6 83.25: (0:37) CMDH 9 187.25: (0:57) CMDF 13 211.25: (4:07) CMDH 9 187.25: (5:26) CMDF 13 211.25: (6:38) CMER 14 471.25: (9:18) CMDF 13 211.25: (9:45) CMBR 4 67.25: (10:59) CMBx 15 477.25: (12:45) Test Pattern ???.25: (13:40) Fin: (13:46)

[@scratchpad7954]

Does Cuba use the same frequencies for TV as the United States and Canada?

[@FloridaTVDX]

Yeah, but they don't use ATSC for digital TV.

[@christopherdunne7848]

I will add that Cuba will still have analog AFAIK until 2024, maybe even longer, due to COVID.

[@edwardelric9649]

I assume the bands in Matanzas are less congested than in Havana

[@rkmklz7562]

Canal 6 is CMQ Havana....got this iin the 1980s in Riverside California... doing thr summer

[@DoritoFD]

5:26 Why there is a image of Congresso Nacional in Brazil?

[@carlosserafincruzbermudez6311]

TV DX Sporadic - the year 1996 and 2004 Cuba E - skip

[@robertwynn5844]

The people in Cuba look so happy

[@luisramirezclaver8022]

because they have no other choice, maybe?

[@JASFMXL]

They love to dance salsa on live tv!

[@kevmichael2064]

On MW on 670khz....I got Cuba in the 1970s on my dads car radio from Palm springs California at night....in the 1980s and 1990s...i heard The Caribbean Beacon Angulla BWI on 1610khz on MW at Night doing cold Nights....U have a QSL from that station... also from California

[@MegaRafaelloco]

Memories from my childhood 😂😂

[@ladr1550]

One day, can you go to the keys and scan for cuban tv before they go all digital?

[@mulletboater]

i think there is still a lot of time. Its not a wealthy country. most people still have old time CRTs, and, the expense of providing converter boxes would be a pinch on their resources. Also due to the low economic level: they are not in desperate need to free up frequencies for wireless tech expansion. Even with recent changes in U.S policy "opening up" Cuba, they will probably be one of the last holdouts for switch over.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I bet. At least once they're ready, they'll have what they'll need.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Checking a few places, it appears Cuba is adopting China's "DTMB" system for digital transmissions. I'm sure that's a smart move to deter those on the island from DX-ing elsewhere! Incidentally I just checked out Cubavision's latest schedule for Sunday and see they have the Angry Birds movie playing this morning! www.tvcubana.icrt.cu/cartelera-de-la-tv-cubana/cubavision

[@christopherdunne7848]

@Local & DX----Click on my name and look for "Cuba TV Bandscan" which was done recently. It was one of the better days; not always that good.

[@davidlineweaver2263]

Probably not. According to Wikipedia, Cuba adopted the DTMB system for DTV rather than ATSC.

[@tvcdb724]

4:07 CBS, Noticias ECO, Univision, CNN laggy

[@robmclean4352]

The little girl dishing out the propaganda would be about 30 now. It reminds me of this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZO1eadrfKh6m9U

[@FRLAZone2018]

10:24 sounds like chinese bluetooth speaker turn off

[@SoyLuciano]

And the sound in fact came from Windows XP, when you log off.

[@mariomiranda1070]

During Jesus The Healer of GMA 7

[@kevmichael2064]

Channel 6 is CMQ TV Havana Cuba.... IDing as Cubavision!!!!

[@christopherdunne7848]

The CMQ call letters are history. WCMQ FM 92.3 Hialeah/Miami FL has those call letters pretty much as a tribute.

[@checkerboy3469]

was this just because of the ocean and water

[@christopherdunne7848]

Doesn't hurt!

[@toddstewart9070]

For some reason I always thought that Cuba was PAL and not NTSC.

[@rafaelrodriguez1029]

Cuba had its first color broadcast on March 19, 1958 from Habana Hilton hotel. Several months before the tyranny took power. It was NTSC.

[@1L6E6VHF]

If I remember correctly, Czechoslovakia had made an arrangement to provide SECAM television equipment to Cuba- Using 8 MHz channels (in an area where all other TV is NTSC and 6 MHz channels) Since the Florida Strait is both relatively narrow, and temperatures are high, tropospheric refraction and incompatible channels would cause chaos.

[@INTLAudiovisualArchive]

Cuba was a US colony, so, they didn't adopt PAL system, obviously.

[@danielwang7793]

3:19 "Freefall" by Camel.

[@martingarciadarosa4795]

#SOSCuba

[@solojinglesradio1]

El pesado de Martin creador de fake audios también está aquí dando escándalo

[@zsoltkoncz2158]

Hi. I was a TV amateur too, since 1988. I really like your videos. I welcome you. K Zs. Szia. Én szintén tévéamatőr voltam, 1988 igazán szeretem a videóidat. Üdvözöllek téged. K Zs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqXVnotnpZqto68

[@tvcdb724]

10:24 Windows XP (Progressbar XB)

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

11:58 when pretty women turn prettier...

[@SBTKostya2008]

4:06 CBS Evening News (U.S.), ECO Noticias (Mexico), Noticiero Univision (U.S.), CNN (U.S.)

[@conroads2626]

the ntv map doesn't show cuba lol

[@kevmichael2064]

Hey no Fidel Castro Screaming I am surprised he is not on?...any of these channels?

[@AlexanderShadwick]

10:24 - Windows XP

[@kevmichael2064]

Copyright is not in a country like Cuba ..stop muting....this ..this is TVDX ...not entertainment!!!

[@franciscojaviergermosenand3808]

Yankee means USA

[@donjohnsonescarosmain2822]

Copyright is the another byproduct of Capitalism and Corporatism if we know more about Communist views on many things outside Communism though.

[@samueIferreira]

5:25 Brasília? oi? kkkk

[@canadianmike711]

Post Caribbean speak Spanish

[@blackcitroenlove]

D I N G !!! Propaganda B O N U S

[@kevmichael2064]

2 ...4 ...and 6...Habana.....7 and above was relays

[@only_a_test.]

4:07 laggy

[@confetti199]

Yay free healthcare!

[@johnpat3622]

@ 1:30 AOC : The Early Years.