RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

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

Digital Initiatives

John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI, 02912
Tel: 401-863-3723
email:hay@brown.edu

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).