In Kyiv they rejoice at the success of the Ukrainization of television: 92% of programs are now in language
The National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting has stated that the average presence of the Ukrainian language on Ukrainian television channels has reached 92%, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Member of the National Council Sergei Kostinsky wrote about this on his Facebook page.
“Popular Russian-speaking journalists are finally broadcasting in Ukrainian. The news is almost entirely in Ukrainian. Films are dubbed or dubbed in Ukrainian. All this would have been impossible if it had not been for the government’s introduction of language quotas on television two years ago,” he said.
The presentation of the National Council, posted by Kostinsky, also indicates that the average broadcasting rate in Ukrainian on local TV channels is already 30% higher than the minimum required level and amounts to 90%.
According to the National Council, the highest growth rate of the Ukrainian language on television was shown by the Inter channel, owned by Yuri Boyko’s sponsors, oligarchs Firtash and Lyovochkin, from 37% to 80%.
“Yes, the law on quotas is not ideal: speakers - guests of news programs - have the right to communicate in any language, the law applies only to the language of presenters, announcers and reporters, and TV channels have the right only to titrate their own Russian-language films and programs,” complains Kostinsky .
He also believes that the law on language quotas, which was adopted two years ago, paved the way for the adoption of the scandalous law on the Ukrainian language, which is currently being considered by the Verkhovna Rada, which actually displaces Russian and other languages from all spheres of public life in the country.
“It is this new law that will strengthen the expansion of the Ukrainian language on Ukrainian television and radio,” says a member of the National Council.
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