“First, they made us addicted, and now, they are trying to get money out of us,” said the doorman of a building in West Tehran.“They must be changing their transmission frequencies,” suggested a satellite dish engineer, who has been installing illegal sets for years. “The advertisements, the viewers — think of the money involved. No way this channel will stop.”Most people, though, saw the hand of the government. The authorities here have fought what they call a “cultural invasion” from the West, starting with the introduction of videotaped Hollywood movies in the 1980s and, more recently, the Internet and dozens of satellite channels based abroad, broadcasting in Persian.Millions of Iranians in possession of illegal satellite equipment smuggled into the country and sold for less than $150 can watch an array of news programs, political talk shows and sometimes raunchy soaps. On Monday, another popular channel, Manoto, operating out of London, broadcast the Golden Globes. Needless to say, none of these would appear on Iran’s state television, whether as a matter of taste or politics.
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Police officers regularly rip satellite dishes from rooftops, and clerics warn of the corrupting effects of non-Iranian programs on children and families.“At the beginning of the school year, our head teacher told us to give our students extra homework so they wouldn’t spend their evenings in front of satellite channels,” said Somaye, a teacher at an elementary school.Satellite channels began to gain in popularity about a decade ago. It was about then that an Iranian opposition politician in California started receiving, during his long rants against Iran’s leaders, phone calls from viewers in Iran who were picking up his station’s signal through a Turkish satellite.There has been a boom in channels ever since. Voice of America has a service in Persian, as does the BBC. But news and political talk shows are quickly losing out to channels that bring Persian-language entertainment, especially.
New programs include a talent show hosted by one of Iran’s most prominent singers, and Iranian dance competitions taped in Georgia. There are movie channels in Persian, shopping channels, even religious channels.Several politicians have called upon state television to develop programming to win back the viewers they are losing to satellite channels. But few viewers, having been exposed to Western entertainment programs, want to switch back.“On the satellite channels, I watch ‘America’s Got Talent’ dubbed in Persian, while at the same time, our state television is showing an hourlong program on mathematics. Which one would you prefer?” asked Hamid-Reza Mohammadi, 30, an insurance salesman.There are indications that GEM TV has closer ties with the Iran government than do other satellite channels based abroad. 16, the semiofficial Tabnak Web site reported the arrest in Tehran of several people doing Persian voice-overs for the channel’s other hit series, “The Sultan’s Harem,” another originally Turkish production popular in the Middle East.
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