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b1gals said:
Should really be asking why the BBC have a dedicated channel broadcast in a language that less than 60000 people speak
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Exactly. Pull the funding for it and put it towards BBC Punjab since it is second language of the UK. It'll be more useful
 
WackyJackyO said:
Tbh BBC Scotland not unlike the state propaganda organ that was Radio Albania under Enver Hoxha from the forties to the eighties, iirc
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Absolutely - no Scottish main news (something now being explicitly banned in new charter) - broke it's own rules repeatedly in referendum to ensure it helped the result - openly hostile to SNP. Five million people to get 1 local radio station (the figure is under a million in England). The BBC in Scotland is even more of a mouthpiece for the UK government than in the rest of the BBC.

PS BBC Alba runs on a tiny budget, it's really just a cultural crutch - someone said 60,000 people - that's possible, but not as a first language - lucky if there is 1000.
 
McMackem said:
Absolutely - no Scottish main news (something now being explicitly banned in new charter) - broke it's own rules repeatedly in referendum to ensure it helped the result - openly hostile to SNP. Five million people to get 1 local radio station (the figure is under a million in England). The BBC in Scotland is even more of a mouthpiece for the UK government than in the rest of the BBC.

PS BBC Alba runs on a tiny budget, it's really just a cultural crutch - someone said 60,000 people - that's possible, but not as a first language - lucky if there is 1000.
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The EBC as its lovingly tagged
 
b1gals said:
Alba is broadcast in Gaelic. Is BBC Wales in foreign tongue also ?
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Never listened to BBC Cymru Wales so I can't say for sure, but the title gives a hint that maybe its output is not entirely in the language of Her Majesty.

BBC Cymru Wales ~ the broadcasting equivalent of New York, New York, so good they named it twice.
("Cymru", apparently is "Wales" in Welsh ~ I don't get it either).

1973ANTH said:
You can only watch that crap if you snort McEwans larger though
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larger than what?
 
johnny c said:
The
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counted 3.1 million residents of Wales, of residents of Wales aged three and over, 19% (562,000) reported being able to speak Welsh.
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Interesting.
Thanks.
....and the population of Albania is?
 
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