Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) files appeal to Venezuela's Supreme Justice Tribunal (TSJ)

Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), the private channel that went off the air a year ago at President Hugo Chavez' behest and turned itself into a cable station, evidently hasn't given up hope it can recover its broadcasting license.

Oswaldo Quintana, RCTV's resident legal adviser, said he was seeking a new ruling from the Supreme Justice Tribunal on a petitition asking the judges to rule there had been a misuse of power when Chavez decided not to renew RCTV's license last year.

With the opposition rallying to RCTV's cause, Quintana said that sooner or later, national and international courts would return the license to the channel.
For that reason, RCTV would continue "struggling legitimately," he added. Marcel Granier, president of RCTV's parent company, Grupo 1BC, claimed that the people wanted RCTV to have its license back.

RCTV claims to have taken top place in the viewer league of cable stations in Venezuela, and presents this as evidence that its programs are still missed by the public.
Argument has long raged over exactly when RCTV's license expired. When Chávez announced his decision not to renew the license, he said the due date was June 27 last year. RCTV, which had broadcast for over half a century when it went off the air, has insisted all along that the license was actually valid until 2022.