These got more like what we're used to seeing today as time went by, but those first two intros were very grim and foreboding.
Dumb question maybe, is that standard Danish they're speaking, or something they speak in the Faeroes?
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The History of Television in Greenland
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Dumb question maybe, is that standard Danish they're speaking, or something they speak in the Faeroes?
Faroese, which is distantly related to Danish but closest to Icelandic.
Faroese language - Wikipedia
It didn't sound quite like I would expect Danish to sound.
I visited Copenhagen in 1990 and knowledge of Danish was absolutely not necessary. Anyone there with even a secondary school education is reasonably fluent in English, and even the bus tickets were printed in English and only English.
How strange to think there is the potential of KNR coming under the control of the FCC if Greenland becomes a territory. I don't know how they would be able to continue without any help with subsidies like they do now from the Danish government I imagine all FCC rules, regulations, fees, required paperwork and filings would be required of them.
Speaking of television in remote, thinly populated territories in the North Atlantic, here's a 1981 newscast from the French territory of St. Pierre and Miquelon (pop.: around 6000) just off the coast of Newfoundland:
I've seen this before, and in the present day, RFO (Radio-France Outre-Mer) does a pretty good job in providing a local newscast to SP&M that matches the quality of broadcasts in metropolitan France.
The French overseas territory with which I'm the most familiar, St-Martin in the West Indies (the island is split across the middle with the Netherlands, a truly interesting situation), to my knowledge doesn't have anything like this. They get the main French networks (among many others from the US) on cable and satellite, but AFAIK there is no local origination, nor is there a local terrestrial presence. The situation is a little bit different, though, because the language of daily life among the people is English, and while there are hints of French culture here and there, it is only "France" in the loosest sense.
All this said, there is a Leader Price grocery store near Grand Case that is French in every sense of the word. You would never know you were in the Caribbean. I got a delicious poulet rôti with some French cheese and a bottle of wine. It doesn't get any more French than that.
Just a minor correction: the TV service for France's overseas territories is now known as Outre-mer La Première after a reorganization of French broadcasting several years ago. It uses the La Première brand on the air.
The French part of St. Martin was administratively a part of Guadeloupe until 2007 and is officially served by the La Première station on that island. For instance, Guadelpoipe La Première has a St. Martin section on its website:
Saint-Martin : Actualités et info en direct – Guadeloupe La 1ère
Retrouvez toute l'actualité 'Saint-Martin' et les dernières informations en direct, les articles et analyses, regardez les vidéos et les photos et bien plus encore avec Guadeloupe La 1ère.
la1ere.franceinfo.fr
It also airs reports from St. Martin (I don't know how frequently) and, from what I've seen on YouTube, produces election specials for that island.
You would known better than I would how widely Guadeloupe La Première is distributed on St. Martin given the predominance of English on the island.
Here's a typical La Première newscast for Guadeloupe; I didn't catch any St. Martin stories in this edition:
Guadeloupe is also served by a commercial service, Canal 10, but don't know if that station makes any effort to serve St. Martin.
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Oh, and St. Martin is also included in Guadeloupe La Première's weather forecasts as seen in this example from 2011:
Thanks for the information. I now recall that they did indeed change the branding from RFO to La Première. I was also aware of the past administration of St-Martin from Guadeloupe. I found a cable lineup from several years back that lists RFO (as it was called then), and I recall seeing somewhere another cable lineup that showed the main French channels as well as RFO. (I can get some of those channels, straight feed from Paris in live time, on the Haitian TV Network app on Roku.)Just a minor correction: the TV service for France's overseas territories is now known as Outre-mer La Première after a reorganization of French broadcasting several years ago. It uses the La Première brand on the air.
The French part of St. Martin was administratively a part of Guadeloupe until 2007 and is officially served by the La Première station on that island. For instance, Guadelpoipe La Première has a St. Martin section on its website:
Saint-Martin : Actualités et info en direct – Guadeloupe La 1ère
Retrouvez toute l'actualité 'Saint-Martin' et les dernières informations en direct, les articles et analyses, regardez les vidéos et les photos et bien plus encore avec Guadeloupe La 1ère.
It also airs reports from St. Martin (I don't know how frequently) and, from what I've seen on YouTube, produces election specials for that island.
You would known better than I would how widely Guadeloupe La Première is distributed on St. Martin given the predominance of English on the island.
Here's a typical La Première newscast for Guadeloupe; I didn't catch any St. Martin stories in this edition:
Guadeloupe is also served by a commercial service, Canal 10, but don't know if that station makes any effort to serve St. Martin.
Again, the language of everyday life on both sides of SXM is English, though there are people from continental France who live there and continue to use French. The Dutch side is far more Americanized and English is universal there as well. Fascinating place.
I've heard Faroese KVF radio a few times. It's a day-night regular in a lot of Scotland and northern parts of Ireland on 531 kHz AM thanks to the low frequency and sea path, and I've picked up the same station on FM more than once during atmospherics in northern Scotland, especially in the Orkney islands (off the northern Scottish coast).
I don't understand the programming as the language is obscure, but it seems to play a lot of non-stop music at night, and the daytime programming sounds a bit "community radio" in nature.
They have a couple of commercial stations as well, but those are much lower power and only KVF has ever made the trip over the sea to me.
