RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

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Cabo Verde TV Production, Inc. videocassettes (MSS-0071)

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Rhode Island College
Providence, RI, 02910
Tel: 401-456-9653
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Biographical/Historical Note

In 1987, the community-based Cabo Verde Television Productions, Inc. (CVTP) was formed in Boston, Massachusetts under the direction of João Rosário , a RIC alumnus. Kontakt was a 30-minute television program produced by CVTP in Pawtucket, Rhode Island between 1987 and 1993. The weekly program aired on the cable television system in Pawtucket and syndicated to various cable systems and WPRI TV-12 (the ABC Television Network affiliate of southern New England).