Re: hallo hakka

[teoh@cs.utk.edu]

>From Greg.Zeng@hlos.com.au Wed Jan  8 06:24:54 1997
Subject: Re: hallo hakka

>         When I was in Orlando last week, I am realy impressed that there is
> one TV channel in Spanish.  I also know there is a Chinese TV channel
> (mainly in Cantonese and  Mandarin) in North America.There are also Korean
> and  Japanese channels in  California. Democratic goverment is certainly
> much more open and  other languages are allowed to be broadcasted publicly.

In Australia, we nationally broadcast almost every day, radio and TV
programs in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and sometimes Korean.  These
national programs reach the major Australian cities by the (national
government broadcasting service: "SBS" - Special Broadcasting Service.  

My 85 year old father in Darwin has radio programs in both Mandarin and
Cantonese.  All the above programs are based on the usual commercial
press services.

As once a senior producer in radio broadcasting, I used to have several
minority group radio programs, but broadcasting in English.  If I wanted
to, I could start broadcasting next week, in any language for which
there is an audience, in radio, in most cities in Australia.  It would
take me a few months to start broadcasting nationally.

As might be expected, there are no radio nor television programs
broadcasting in Hakka in Australia, since there are few people who
understand the language.