SAP second audio program

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I suppose there is logic sense to your argument -- but the *target*
audience of most Spanish channels is a *Hispanic* audience. It's
probably a cost issue, too.

In my area (Los Angeles), only 2-3 of the major broadcast-spanish TV
stations comply with the closed-caption rule. (I.e., only 2-3 have
regular *Spanish* CC inserted in the programs. What about all the
deaf Hispanics who want to watch the evening news?!?)

As a side-issue, the literacy-rate among the immigrant Hispanic
population is much lower than the general American population.

Most Hollywood movies shown on TV (Spanish audio-dubbed,
of course), in those instances where the *original* scene
contained a subtitled dialogue (like when an actor is speaking a
'foreign' language to another major character), the Spanish
version loses all the subtitles -- the entire scene is dubbed
in Spanish as if the dialogue took place in the same language

At least the DVDs get it right...

Caloonese wrote:

> I agree with you. The logic seems to be reversed. When the minority
> doesn't speak a majority language, someone spent money to add the
> minority language into the SAP. On the contrary, when the majority
> doesn't speak a minority language, we are deprived of the privilege to
> watch the programs. Is this some kind of reverse discrimination? I
> guess we can file a class action lawsuit to force the TV channels to
> cater to the need of the English speaking population.
>
> "Frank" <f_rubino@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:<p0uAc.202$iY2.42@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com>...
>
>>On American tv shows the SAP is Spanish.
>>On Spanish speaking shows which are broadcast
>>in America the SAP is not programmed and I think
>>it should be English...subtitles at least....so the huge
>>English speaking American male audience could understand
>>what the female actresses are saying.
>>Who do we have to talk to in order to make this happen?