Minority TV news services

Does any one know the names of any minority tv news services around the world. Not necessarily language, but catering for an ethnicity or anything else.

Examples I know of include S4C for Welsh language speakers in Wales, and I also believe there is a Latin news service in Sweden.

It for a journalism project I'm doing, and Google isn't helping.

TG4 Ireland or SBS Australia?

Well, Latin isn't a first language for anyone so it wouldn't be for minority speakers, and the service you are talking about is a short radio programme by YLE, in Finland. TG4 in Ireland, and CBC North, in Canada, would be valid minority programme providers.

SBS (the Special Broadcasting Service) here in Australia has a remit to provide programs to our multicultural community - they devote most of their mornings' schedule to foreign language news bulletins, and place a far greater emphasis on international and overseas news in their news bulletins and current affairs programs. They also have quite a few programs catering to Austraila's indigenous Aboriginal population.

You see far more subtitled movies and TV shows on SBS than anywhere else (weird Japanese movies and things like Inspector Rex). SBS also has a digital 'World News Channel' where they repeat the morning's foreign news bulletins.

There's also Imparja Television, one of the two commercial licenses in Remote Central and Eastern Australia (a license area that covers all of the Northern Territory except for Darwin, and parts of Queensland and South Australia, as well as anywhere you can't get terrestrial reception in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania). Although it's for the most part a Nine Network affiliate, they also produced their own news bulletin up until the end of last year, and are launching a weekly Aboriginal current affairs program (supplemented by three-minute 'noodle' updates during the day to fulfil local content regulations). Imparja means 'footprints' in one Aboriginal dialect (I think around Alice Springs).

Finally, nitv (National Indigenous Television) is a community station targeted squarely at Aboriginal people - it's run by Imparja but shows other programs from SBS and independent producers. It only started last year, and you can only get it on satellite or Foxtel, so it has a pretty limited audience, but it's also worth a look. They positioned themselves as a 'third public broadcaster' (after SBS and the ABC) at the time but that's probably pushing things a bit.

http://www20.sbs.com.au/sbs_front/index.html
http://imparja.com/
http://nitv.org.au/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Broadcasting_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imparja_Television
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Indigenous_Television

You might also want to look into Maori Television in New Zealand. The ABC's Foreign Correspondent had a story on it last year called Maori Primetime which I have sitting around on my computer if you're interested.

I know you specifically asked about TV, but for what it's worth several BBC Local Radio stations do news in other languages, Radio Cornwall does news in Cornish (although that may have been relegated to web only now), Radio Jersey has news in Polish.

In Canada there's Omni TV (focused on the Greater Toronto area) which produces news in several minority languages, including Cantonese and Italian.

In Scotland there was Telefios on Scottish Television and Grampian Television, which was the news in Scots Gaelic. But that ceased broadcasting around 2000. A similar news service is planned for the new Gaelic TV channel which is due to go on air later this year.

In Finland, there's YLE FST5 - it's a channel targetted at Finland's Swedish community. Also, there is a daily news bulletin in English on YLE TV1 - Finland's answer to BBC1. The bulletin is broadcast around 9am. The news in latin which someone posted about is called Nunti Lattini and is broadcast on radio rather than TV.

In Sweden, there's a daily news bulletin for the Finnish community called SVT Uttiset.

Across Scandinavia there is a daily news bulletin, I believe produced by YLE, which is called Oddasat and is for the Sami people - an indigenous group who live in northern Scandinavia and parts of Russia.

In Cyprus, the state broadcaster RIK, which broadcasts primarily in Greek, broadcasts a daily news bulletin in English and a daily bulletin in Turkish.

The BBC Trust has recently given to go ahead for a Gaelic language television service on some platforms. Press release is here. To go alongside it they have recently launched an online news service.

BBC Radio Lincolnshire produces a news bulletin in Portuguese.

BBC Radio Manchester provides a couple of hours of airtime per week in Chinese, usually mid-evening slots when there's no Sport.

The Unites States has several networks and many local stations broadcasting in Spanish. In addition, several large cities have dedicated ethnic stations with programs in Chinese, Korean, Polish, Vietnamese, and so on. They are all privately owned and fully commercial.

This is TV, of course -- there's even more ethnic programming on the radio (in large cities).

In New Zealand we have a 15 minute daily 'Te Reo Maori' language news on TV One, quite different from the normal type of news shows. Also on Maori TV there is Te Kaea which is also Maori Language news.

BBC Three's entire output is aimed at minorities - apparently those people without television sets.
Every week they take the station out on the road to broadcast to their loyal viewers - and it's my job to go ahead and book the telephone box where they'll hold the meeting.
They don't have a schedule - they just wait for someone to ring up with a request.
And it's almost always never Tittytitty Bang Bang - the world's first serious comedy.