LANGUAGE IN AUDIOVISUAL MASS MEDIA
We can see that most people listen to
the radio in English (79.2%). It's less people who listen to it in both
languages (Welsh and English) (15.6%). And hardly anybody listen to it
in Welsh (5,2%). This is because there isn't a lot of people who speaks
or understand Welsh and there aren't a lot of stations in Welsh, so
perhaps the stations that are in Welsh don't have as good programs as
the English one and then the listeners prefer listening to the radio in
English.
As we have seen in the radio most people watch TV in English
(82.8%), less people watch TV in both languages (13.5%) and hardly
anybody, less people than the radio, watch TV in Welsh (3,7%). Like in
the radio it is possibly because there’s only one channel in
Welsh, there isn’t as many choice of channels as in English and
everybody understands it.
In the cinema we can see more the influence of English over
Welsh. A (97.7%) of the people who were surveyed watch the films of the
cinema in English. A (1,9%) watch to it in Welsh and only the (0,4%)
watch the films in both languages. These results might be like this
because there are few films which are in Welsh and there are very few
people who knows that.As we can see, English is most popular than Welsh
here.
When people have to choose a station of radio, most of them are
influenced by the topic (55, 1 %). Less people are influenced by the
language (20, 3 %) and the (18, 6 %) of them are influenced by other
things like the broadcasting timetable or the treatment of information.
This reason might be like this because the people prefer listening to
the things they like or are interested in. In the radio we can see that
the language isn’t the most important thing for them.
As we have seen in the radio, when people watch TV they are
influenced by the topic (63, 6 %). In this case, we can see that
there’s the same percentage of people who, when they want to
watch TV, are influenced by the language (18, 2 %) or other things like
the broadcasting timetable or the treatment of information (18, 2 %).
That’s because people want to be entertained when they watch TV
and, they want to watch something that they are interested in.
Regarding to the cinema, like in radio and TV, the most
important thing is the topic (66, 3%), less people worry about other
things like the cast (18, 3%) and a 15, 4% worry about the language.
Like in the other mass media, most people worry about the topic, but we
can see that people worry more about the cast than the language.
It is because almost all the films are in English and the films
aren’t translated in to Welsh because everybody knows English and
it isn’t profitable.
In this part of the survey we have asked to the people if
they listened to or watched radio, TV, or cinema more often if it
was in
Welsh. In the case of the radio a 83.2% answered that they
wouldn’t listen more radio than no if it was in Welsh, and a
16.8% answered that they would listen more radio if it was in Welsh. In
TV there are less people than in the radio that would watch more
TV than now if it was in Welsh, it is only a 7.2% under remaining 92.8%
would watch the same TV as now.
In the cinema there are more people than in the radio or TV
that worry about the availability of the languages of the films (31%)
and a 69% don’t worry about it.
The people don’t worry a lot about the availability because all of them know English.
The institutions of Wales don’t worry a lot about the
fact that the Welsh in the decreasing. We can see that there are only
one channel in Welsh, there are very few films in Welsh and there
aren’t a lot of stations in Welsh and if they would like to keep
Welsh they would put more channels, stations and films in Welsh.