Catholic Church broadcasting Tarot in Spain

Catholic Church broadcasting Tarot in Spain
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By h.b. - Mar 21, 2011 - 7:24 PM
The Catholic Church has money invested in TV channels broadcasting Tarot and fortune tellers

One of the 'stars' of Astrocanal

The Catholic Church has been extending its broadcasting interests in Spain. Long time owners of the Cadena Cope radio network, the Church has recently been moving into the TDT Digital Terrestrial Television, and has achieved wide coverage of the country with Canal 13.

The broadcaster has Cadena Cope and the Canal Català group as its main shareholders and operates on one of the four frequencies on the Veo 7 transponder, linked to the newspaper El Mundo.

As you might expect given its ownership, Canal 13 broadcasts the Pope’s blessings live from St. Peter’s Square, but as El País notes, it also has space for tarot readers and other fortune tellers. In Madrid part of the time on the frequency becomes ‘Astrocanal’ which has more esoteric content.

The owner of Canal Català, Nicola Pedrazzoli, told El País that he does not consider it strange that a channel which defends ‘traditional values’ and has a ‘marked Catholic identity’, should produce spaces dedicated to Tarot and fortune tellers.

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