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Executives from V-me launch the network Monday, March 5, 2007

By Kwame Patterson
March 6, 2007 - Katherine Oliver, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB), joined city and state officials today in New York City to help launch the broadcasting of the first nationally-televised, Spanish network, V-me.

The new V-me (see me) network, which began broadcasting on Monday, is a partnership with American public television stations that will provide a new kind of quality entertainment to Latino and Spanish-speaking audiences.

“Latino citizens need a way to learn, and a way to communicate with other members of the community,” said Oliver as part of the networks launching. “With V-me, they now have an opening to do so.”

V-me (pronounced veh-meh) is the first venture announced by a newly formed media production and distribution company, V-me Media Inc., which is based in New York. The network will be a 24-hour digital broadcasting network presented by public television stations and carried on basic digital cable and satellite.

Network content will consist of children’s programming, current affairs and lifestyle shows. It will also air on cable on Time Warner NY Channel 812, Cablevision Channel 199, Comcast NJ Channel 242 and digital channel 13-3.

Carol Robles-Roman, Deputy Mayor for Legal Affairs and Counsel to the Mayor, Guillermo Linares, Commissioner of the Office of Immigrant Affairs, and Katherine Oliver, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting present a proclamation on behalf of Mayor Bloomberg declaring March 5, 2007 V-me day.