Lithuania has announced its participation in BelSat TV, a new independent channel aimed at neighbouring Belarus. Backed principally by the Polish public broadcaster TVP and the NGO The Freedom and Democracy Foundation, the service, which is due to make its debut on December 10, will also have content supplied by its Lithuanian counterpart. BelSat TV will broadcast for 16 hours daily in Belarusian and be distributed by Astra at 19.2 degrees East and (from January 2008) also Sirius 4.
