Brussels, 26/08/2015 (Agence Europe) - The Franco-German public service television channel, Arte, focuses on European culture. On 24 August, it announced that it would be providing a selection of programmes on the Internet as from next November that will be subtitled in Spanish and English. These programmes have hitherto only been available in French or German. This “Arte Europe” project will be co-funded by the European Commission.
The President of Arte, Véronique Cayla, explained that this project “is a way to expand the broadcasting and influence of our programmes by allowing them to stretch across borders”. Two other European languages will also be used to expand Arte Europe further soon, added Cayla but she did not specify which languages these would be. The programmes in question will account for 600 hours of broadcasting per language every year. This is currently the case for programmes in French and German. The programmes in Spanish and English will also generally be available seven days after they have been broadcast but the objective at a later date is to make them available for two months after they have been broadcast. (Isabelle Lamberty)