Dakila_Sidhi:This was the first time too I heard about the Internacia Televido in Brazil.

Flavio Rebelo founded both the news website Ĝangalo, and the internet television station Internacia Televido, both based in his native Brazil.

Ĝangalo was a very professionally produced site, and one of my very first introductions to Esperanto. When I first showed up, there were new articles daily, and it looked to be a pretty large site where a lot was going on. Unfortunately, it was primarily a subscription site, and that was its undoing, as apparently Esperantists worldwide aren't a subscription-oriented bunch. Or, at least, they weren't in Flavio's case.

As Ĝangalo was going bust, Flavio started setting up Internacia Televido. I honestly can't remember whether it was going to be a subscription site or not, but it doesn't really matter because it never got very far. At some point Flavio decided to just start playing material, for free (to gin up some interest, probably), but he had only a tiny amount of material, so the same stuff was just playing in a loop, over and over. And over. And over some more. And it wasn't that interesting to begin with. Some UK videos, one episode of a kids show (I think), some interviews of random Esperantists (usually at an UK). That was about it. I can't remember any of it, really.

But it went bust alongside Ĝangalo, and was gone practically before it started.

Internacia Televido was boring as all get out, but I was sorry to see Ĝangalo go. Flavio did have a clear vision of a really slick Esperanto global news site, and tried pretty hard to get one going, and it really is too bad that he couldn't do it. He just couldn't make the money work. It was nice while it lasted, though.

RiotNrrd:
Flavio Rebelo founded both the news website Ĝangalo, and the internet television station Internacia Televido, both based in his native Brazil.

Ĝangalo was a very professionally produced site, and one of my very first introductions to Esperanto. When I first showed up, there were new articles daily, and it looked to be a pretty large site where a lot was going on.

With the closing of Ĝangalo's Website, a treasury of translated articles from leading publications was lost, as it appears Flavio never created an archive of them.

The only one I have been able to find was this article from The Observer (London) on Che Guevara:
groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/esperanto-en-togolando/conversations/topics/173?l=1

Dakila_Sidhi:Btw, the Facebook link doesn't work for me. "That page doesn't exist. You may have typed in the address incorrectly."

Try this one. www.facebook.com/LaEsperantoTV

That link need to be tagged with Lernu markup 'LIG' instead of 'URL'.

Search with 'flavio' at Liberafolio.org also brings some background information.

The address has been fixed. Apparently you can't leave out the HTTP:// part of a web address.