But if you want to see Belsat's nerve center, you need to head to neighboring Poland, to a narrow Office in downtown Warsaw.
Are there broadcast for 17 hours per day, a team of almost three dozen Poland and Belarusians in a country whose media G. tightly controlled by the Government of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Recent crackdown in Belarus of demonstrations against Mr Lukaschenko grip even more hurdles for journalists is created.
Belsat's operation here has tried to overcome, those who help with 120 professionals in Belarus, which every day send news to Warsaw by telephone or the Internet. Many of them have detained, arrested fine or was.
"they are not allowed, to work as journalists," said Alaksei Dzikavitski, Belsat TV's editorial director for news. "The authorities refuse to accredit them because they are working for Belsat TV."
Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy, the founder and Director of Belsat TV, that his first broadcast in December 2007, it is natural that its operation would find a home in Poland. As the daughter of the leading Polish dissidents in the Communist era, she said she believed that Poland had something to its neighbours, which give freedom.
"We are fighting for freedom, but you it does not get if you do something to you, do not", said Ms. Romaszewska-Guzy, 48, a former historian.
Her father, Zbigniew Romaszewski, was one of the founder in 1976 of KOR, the independent labor self-defense Committee. Later, he founded the Helsinki Committee in Poland, a human rights movement. In the early 1980s, he became a leading member of solidarity, the trade union movement.
During the martial law was imposed in 1981, Mr Romaszewski was imprisoned for two years and his wife, Zofia, for a year. Mrs Romaszewska-Guzy itself was for six months in prison, and her husband, Jaros?aw Guzy, then a student leader, was imprisoned for a year.
"I think we are a criminal family," said Mrs Romaszewska-Guzy.
These days, is the Polish Government of one of the most active supporters of the democratic opposition in Belarus. And Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs offers an annual scholarship for Belsat TV almost $ 6 million, the largest part of its annual budget of approximately $9 million. The Swedish Government provides a grant of approximately $3 million over a period of three years which ends in 2013.
That support at least partly trying destabilise Government Belarus on the allegations of Mr Lukashenko last month, that Poland had. This claim is denied Poland. Mrs Romaszewska-Guzy said that the role of Western radio stations an alternate view of messages such as radio free Europe, France international and the BBC in the provision of independent were news to Poland during the Communist era Poland. Belarusians to have this opportunity should now, she says.
"It is to give back the independent news - in this case to Belarus," she said. "Finally the underground opposition in Poland posted in the 1970's and later under martial law on news from international broadcasters."
"I suppose, what we do in Belarus is a kind of modern samizdat," Mrs Romaszewska-Guzy, said with reference to such information under the former Communist Governments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on smudgy carbon copied pages was distributed.
So if freelancers from Belarus offer for Belsat TV work, Mrs Romaszewska-Guzy played down the glamour of this work and plays the risks.
"Our employees know what they are up for rental in," she said. "I tell them, that it their choice, their fate, their own responsibility." I tell them that I can guarantee their security. "It is Lukashenko, is responsible."
Belsat's makeshift Studios, which are the seat of Polish television, Mr Dzikavitski, says that in addition to the challenges in Belarus, the channel cameras and transmission equipment, in addition to money for programming and training needs.
But despite the budget constraints and the conditions in the Belsat's journalist work - they not official events or details of the authorities - are you looking for the news sends every day.
Mrs Romaszewska-Guzy said that the continued actions of the Belarus pointed out security forces, who have broken down on the opposition leader as well as teachers, lawyers and journalists, the need for a timely news for Belarusian delivered.
"The oppression, replacing the stop, forced us to us, strategy, change", she said. "We decided to try happen in real time on the Belarus react."
Belsat TV is now nearly 761,000 people, or about 10% of the population, according to the Polish reduction Sirusho Info Research Center observed.
"The truth to people," said Mrs Romaszewska-Guzy. "It is what we wanted to we lived under communism."
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