Radio y Televisión Martí

Radio y Televisión Martí
TypeInternational broadcasting
Country
United States
AvailabilityAmericas
HeadquartersMiami, Florida, United States
OwnerU.S. Agency for Global Media
Launch date
May 20, 1985 (radio)
March 27, 1990 (television)
Official website
www.martinoticias.com
LanguageSpanish

Radio y Televisión Martí is an American state-run radio and television international broadcaster based in Miami, Florida, financed by the federal government of the United States through the U.S. Agency for Global Media (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors, BBG). It transmits propaganda in Spanish to Cuba and its broadcasts can also be heard and viewed worldwide through their website and on shortwave radio frequencies.

Named after the Cuban national hero and intellectual José Martí, Radio Televisión Martí was established in 1983 and TV Martí was added in 1990. The 2014 budget for the Cuba broadcasting program was approximately US$27 million.

Radio y Televisión Martí is overseen by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), and is an element of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).

On 14 March 2025, the second Trump administration issued an executive order dismantling the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, the parent agency of the Cuban Broadcasting Bureau, which oversees radio and television. As a result, all Radio Televisión Martí employees were placed on administrative leave with pay, and instructed not to seek to access buildings or computer systems.

On 26 March 2025, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, through its Office for Cuba Broadcasting, notified federal employees, who had been placed on leave on 15 March 2025, that they could return to work at Radio Martí in Doral, Florida.

On 26 March 2025, Radio Martí announced it was returning to the air on X (formerly Twitter), and Martí Noticias website resumed publishing.