Cuba Doubles TV Time For Kids’ Vacation

Cuban television will depart from it usual spartan fare for the next two months, doubling its transmission time with offerings ranging from “Lassie” to “Jurassic Park.”

The dramatic move is meant to capture the interests of Cuban children during the school vacation, the Mexican news agency Notimex reported in a dispatch from Havana.

The Communist Party newspaper Granma dedicated a page Monday to explaining the summer offerings, noting that the new schedule involved “a great effort” because the two television stations, both state-run, are short on resources.

Cuban television cut transmission time by more than half three years ago as an energy-saving measure after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of its subsidized oil shipments caused an energy crisis.