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Luce Reid & Raymond Forget <reidl@cam.org> wrote:

>Ken&Laura wrote:
>> 
>> Fawzi wrote:
>> >
>> > Thank you for that brilliant lesson Ken...
>> > The highest rated show ever in Quebec is "la petite vie" with about
>> > 4Million, and you can't get more "qu�b�cois" than that.
>> > Otherwise, from the week of the 9th to the 15th of september about 15 of
>> > the 20 most watched shows are quebec made.  And this is out or the ratings
>> > period.  In that perticular period, the count, and Quebec's own
>> > productions just go higher.
>> > You should get your facts straight before you appose judgment.
>> 
>>    That's wonderful Fawzi, quite a turn around from the days of the
>> Allaire Comission when it was reported that French TV had only about
>> 15% of the market in Quebec, with another 10% to English Canadian TV
>> and the remainder to US produced shows...Bravo, good for you !!
>>    I presume, in light of this dramatic turn around, that the Quebecois
>> will now stop winning about how their culture is being opverwhelmed by
>> English Canadian and US culture and will also stop demanding CRTC type
>> control of telecommunications and broadcasting in Quebec ??
>> 
>> ...KenKen, I will have to agree with Fawzy.  Most of Qu�b�cois watch TV in 
>French and read in French.  Music is certainly more American.  If you 
>have a problem with the CRTC you should tell that to your Toronto pals 
>as they are the one who are scared to get whiped out by Americans.  We 
>have our regulation: the language.  The only American TV show we see are 
>the poorly translated ones that we watch once!!  I don't know where you 
>are from but your information does not seem accurate.

>Julie

Oh please.   If you all watched a translated American TV show only
once there wouldn't be any translated American TV shows.   No ratings,
no show.

I'll agree, most francophones who understand english prefer to watch
the english shows in the original english language.  Voice overs can
vary dramatically in quality. (Although there've been times when I
wouldn't have minded subtitles with some of the Cockney presented on
the British programming.)

Anyway, my French friends have always lamented the poor quality of
French programming, with a few notable exceptions such as la p'tit
vie.  Of course, they understand English and choose their programming
from a wide variety of sources.   

"We have our regulation: the language".   You're right.  Many
francophones outside of the metropolitain area of Montreal and others
select portions of the province don't understand English at all and
this means their stuck with French programming.    

Since French Quebecers have been refused the right to send their
children to English school I guess this is the governments way to
retain their control over the bulk of the province by keeping them
unilingually French.

You know, I'd really like to see the split in francophone vote for
separation between those who understand english enough to watch
english programming and speak in English and those that do not.  

Might give us a good reading on the brainwashing index.