News Programmes in Minority Languages

Well, my native Slovenia wouldn't exist had it not preserved its language during centuries of foreign domination, so I'm certainly biased when it comes to language policy.

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France 3 produces regional inserts in various minority languages, usually subtitled in French. Here's an Occitan-language example from 2013:

I forgot to mention RAI's Ladin-language news, also for South Tyrol:

TVE in Spain have news in Catalan (in Catalunya and the Balearics), Valencian, Galician.

Interesting that the German language news programme in Italy still dubs contributors speaking Italian when you'd presume that most of the German speakers in South Tyrol would, as Italian citizens, have reasonable Italian.

I like that both the German and Ladin broadcasts use the mountain (someone will know the name) in the titles.

There is also a small German-speaking region in Eastern Belgium (now called "Ostbelgien") which has its own local news.

Some more:

Finnish language news in the Republic of Karelia which is in North West Russia:



Swedish is the second official language of Finland:



Spanish language news in the USA:



News in Jerrais (like French) in Jersey:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07g36qy

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_language_broadcasting for more info.

And the UK

USA Spanish - The major channels including number smaller channels over the and on cable.
TELEMUNDO - (Comcast Owned) Affiliates in most major cities/ Usually works with NBC Stations.

UNIVISION - Affiliates in most major cities


CANADA - Punjabi, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, Portuguese
Omni runs 2 channels OMNI.1 and OMNI.2 and has newscast in multiple languages across the country.

After some exploring, I've found a Yle bulletin in Russian:



SVT in Sweden also has a news bulletin in Finnish:

KTSF, San Francisco; news in Chinese, 1989:

BBC World Service Television has gone through a massive expansion and now broadcasts bulletins in 16 languages (and counting). These include Kyrgyz, Hausa, Telugu, Uzbek, Swahili, Somali and Urdu. Some are fairly simple affairs with a locked off shot in a clip studios, whereas others are full productions. Here are three examples:

Kyrygz News bulletin, produced in NBH Studio P:



African French news programme for kids, from NBH Studio K:



Swahili Feature Programme "Funguka Maisha" (Life Stories) from Nairobi, this uses a particularly lovely slow reworking of the BBC News theme (27 seconds in):

Here is BBC Swahili and BBC Somali, broadcasting from BBC's New Delhi studio
Here is BBC Somali

And BBC Swahili

That's actually Studio L in NBH. The Hindi, Gujarati and Telugu bulletins originate in Delhi. I say originate as the gallery output is fed back to London. The World Service TV channels are played out and monitored from the NBH MCR.