Seventy percent of its programming is created by community organizations in the barrios (poor, heavily populated neighborhoods in Venezuela).

The Hugo Chávez administration devoted considerable financial resources to support community television in Venezuela as part of its view of participatory democracy.

[1] These programs notably included Catia TVe, which provides a forum for marginalized communities in Venezuela to document and broadcast their struggles.

Shortly thereafter the then mayor de Caracas, Alfredo Peña, ordered them to move their headquarters into a hospital in the city.

It wasn't until July 11, 2004 that Catia TVe once again began broadcasting, currently reaching most of the city from their very own headquarters.