I’m particularly interested in the presence of minority languages in broadcasting. Are there dedicated programs in those languages or even entire channels, or are they just completely ignored?
In Finland, the public broadcaster Yle’s Swedish-language channel was merged with a Finnish-language channel, and now only a part of that channel’s programming is in Swedish. There are some Swedish-language radio stations. News in Northern Sámi are broadcast every weekday, and Yle Sámi Radio broadcasts in Sámi on weekdays. Yle also has news broadcasts in English, Russian, and Finnish sign language.
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We don’t have transmissions in languages other than Polish in Poland that I know of, but some TV ads have ukrainian subtitles
Not sure if this counts, but we don’t dub movies, so everytime something is in a foreign language, there are just subtitles.. movies, series, documentaries..
You can hear english a lot ofcourse, croatian in a popular series (Kumovi), turkish, indian and spanish (mexican) in soap operas, german in series like Alarm für Cobra 11, Kommissar Rex (childhood memories), I saw a hungarian movie called Nyitva, and there are probably other languages as well.
Other than that, italian and hungarian minorities have their program on national tv as well, for some weekend shows, local news, culture, history, etc. I don’t think we have the same for our other two neighbours. But we have sometimes a program made by Carinthian slovenes, they speak in slovenian tho, with a healthy amount of accent.
We have an Irish language TV station TG4, and radio station, Raidió na Gaeltachta.
this is my local TV in its own language (Català)
apuntmedia.es
Here in the netherlands its Belgium, english, german, italy, france and some arabic tv channels.
We have “Uutiset” news in Finnish every day 17:45 to 18:00 on public television. Before TV was digital, we also got the Finnish channel YLE1, but that might be a local thing.
There’s public radio channels for Finnish and Sámi (Sameradion) and also streaming news in Arabic, English, Finnish, Kurdish, Meänkieli (Tornedalian Finnish), Farsi/Dari, Russian, Tigrinya (Etiopian), Romani, Sámi and Somali and currently also Ukrainian.
That’s the only regular public broadcasts in other languages afaik.
Do cooficial languages count? There are radio/TV stations on each of the cooficial languages on their respective regions…
Since the war in Ukraine started, every day at 15:00 news in Ukrainian are broadcasted on TV channel *RaiNews24*.
Regarding minority languages native of Italy, I haven’t heard them personally, but there should be a lot of broadcasting in minority languages. South Tyrol has certainly TV an radio in German. I know there are *Rai Radio Trst A* and *Rai Friuli Venezia Giulia*, who broadcast programs in Slovene and Friulan.
In Denmark it’s just danish on the danish channels, not counting foreign made programs, since dubbing is only for pre-school kids, everything else is subbed. However once a week KNRs Qanorooq is shown, that’s Greenlandic news in Greenlandic, oddly enough KVF (faroese tv) doesn’t get their news broadcast, norwegian, swedish and German channels are available in all cable packages, and Swedish and German can of course be picked up via antenna in bordering areas.