In January 2000 — as the result of an FCC-mandated public interest channel set-aside — Free Speech TV became a national , full-time channel on the Dish Network satellite television system while continuing to build a national network of part-time local cable affiliates . Program highlights from the channel 's formative years included live field reporting of the anti-globalization movement spawned at the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle ; the 2000 US presidential elections , including '' Democracy Now ! '' s premiere as a television program at the Republican and Democratic conventions ; the September 11 attacks , to which FSTV responded with a daily news report and weekly current affairs program ; and extensive coverage of the large global anti-war mobilization and the subsequent U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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